Taking Moodle Hub to a new level

Taking Moodle Hub to a new level

Chris Kenniburg གིས-
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I have been watching for the release of the blackboard Xplor product and it looks interesting. It will most likely cost more than we can afford but I like the idea behind it. http://www.blackboard.com/sites/xplor/

Is there any talk in the upper echelons of Moodle in exploring some of Xplor's features for the Moodle hub? I love the idea of a community hub that could do more than just serve up courses.

Here are some ideas I have:

  • Ability to create/store individual course content in the hub such as pages, files and documents, Assessments/quizzes, Assigments, and photos/videos/media.
  • Ability to collect and share LTI content from courses so that if a teacher wants to share using the LTI Provider tool they can do so with the community hub just as they would a course.
  • Separate courses from content in the search and maybe move to more of a "Resource" sharing whether it be entire courses or just a quiz or photo. In this regard the community hub might be part-hub and part-repository that can be utilized by all connected to build or copy courses. Thus making it a one-stop shop for all your course creation needs.
  • A community hub publishing tool that is either web or desktop based which would allow content creators to build material and instantly send it to the hub.
  • Ability for hubs to create their own structure for cataloging courses and content.

Any conversation or interest in these ideas for the hub?

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Re: Taking Moodle Hub to a new level

dawn alderson གིས-

Chris, hi

So, did you shell-out for xplor in the end? And,did you get your money's worth?  དགའ་འཛུམ་


Took a look, and I looked at this too:

http://www.it.cornell.edu/cms/teaching/upload/xpLorReportFinal.pdf

Happy to share some thoughts about this link-if anyone up for that. I couldn't find any-fing on the net with regard to institutional case study, celebratory write-up....mmmmmmmm early days p'rhaps.

Cheers,

Dawn

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Re: Taking Moodle Hub to a new level

Martin Dougiamas གིས-
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Yep, that pretty much mirrors my own wishlist, Chris དགའ་འཛུམ་   The current design is not actually limited to whole courses, you can specify any subset of activities in the backup.   But the interface sucks, at the moment.   I'd love a two-pane interface where you browse the hub on one side and drag things into your course on the other.

BTW: did you know xPlor was originally first developed at Moodlerooms some years ago for Moodle?
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Re: Taking Moodle Hub to a new level

Don Hinkelman གིས-
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Chris, Dawn, and Martin,

I agree whole-heartedly. The past two years I have been devoted to expanding the Hub with social community features and collaborative authoring features.  See some examples here in the Moodle Association of Japan Hub.  Justin Hunt and Version2 Education have added these features with the help of MAJ grants.  The list of features Chris made and Martin's vision of a two-pane drag-and-drop course building interface would be magnificant additions.  Personally, I see the next big leap in Moodle being mass-collaboration among teachers with tight OER and LMS integration.  Is it Moodle 3.0?

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