I want to convert a paper based distance learning course to web based. This is a currently a private, bedroom based, enterprise, operated through a very small educational charity. Colleagues use Moodle so I have tried to learn it - but the advice is to get an expert to do the groundwork and build from there. It has to work first time.
Does the Moodle community have a job exchange, to put potential suppliers and users in contact?
I am based in the UK, Manchester and London. If you are interested, please contact me.
Velson Horie
c.v.horie@hotmail.co.uk
In reply to Velson Horie
Re: ? a job market place for developing Moodle courses
by Froukje Brouwer -
Hi Velson,
You can also get good ideas about how you want your site to look by going on other sites and find out how that is organized. A lot of sites will let you use a guest account. You are welcome to have a look at our site: www.ucopenaccess.org
If you want to have an account on our site that is fine too, it is free.
We migrated our courses from Blackboard, and I still remember migrating some of them from paper to Bb.
good luck,
Frankie
You can also get good ideas about how you want your site to look by going on other sites and find out how that is organized. A lot of sites will let you use a guest account. You are welcome to have a look at our site: www.ucopenaccess.org
If you want to have an account on our site that is fine too, it is free.
We migrated our courses from Blackboard, and I still remember migrating some of them from paper to Bb.
good luck,
Frankie
No such marketplace specifically geared at Moodle exists but there are a lot of sites out there that put suppliers and users in contact for this kind of work. I currently am doing some research and content production work myself via oDesk. I looked at a lot of sites like it, but oDesk was the only one I felt completely comfortable with. It's very transparent-it gives you a lot of information about the people you can hire beforehand and it allows you to monitor their work through randomly taken screenshots of their computer to make sure that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. For the people doing the work, it provides payment guarantee for hourly work, which is nice, because I have read on other sites often the users are often just looking to get someone from overseas to do work and then not pay them. There's no upfront registration fees-they just take 10% from the users on top of the rate set by the suppliers, which is quite reasonable considering the services and features they provide. I suggest checking it out.
In reply to Velson Horie
Re: ? a job market place for developing Moodle courses
by Christos Karakirios -
Hi. If I understand correctly, do you look for an expert to setup one (or more) courses for you, or, are you interested in training, provided by experts, for how to setup courses? If it is the first case, I wouldn't suggest it to you, since an one-to-one training for a collaborative educational tool wouldn't show you most of the pathways. If it's the second case, I would suggest you the Moodlerooms online courses, since, together with other colleagues, in a group pathway, you'll get your final svope which is creation of moodle courses, for some fee. Of course, you can go into documentation in moodle.org (that's for free) and start reading, join the forums, asking and responding, visit various sites for taking ideas and finally, learn by yourself (as all of us here). It's up to you.