These activities are a structured series of activities to induct online learners into processes, roles and VLE activity types for online learning. The focus is on study and research skills with readings that are broadly relevant to social sciences but could easily be swapped for subject-specific papers or more generic papers. Likewise the wiki activities focus on study skills and critical thinking (again with a social science flavour to them). Presented by Steve Wright at Moodlemoot Dublin 2013

1. Five2
Scaling up an online learning
model for staff and student
induction to Moodle
(and then giving it away as an OER)
Steve Wright
Learning Technologist
Lancaster University
s.t.wright@lancaster.ac.uk
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

2. Starting at the end…
• Self Register at http://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk
• Go to category
Technology Enhanced Learning
then Moodle 2.3 Induction
• Use enrolment key:
Moodle2-3group2 Steve Wright
Learning Technologist
or Lancaster University
Moodle2-3group1 s.t.wright@lancaster.ac.uk
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

3. Quick overview
• Setting Out: Where is this from?
A little background and context
– Origins, Use
• Main focus: What is it?
A tour of resources developed
• Taking it home: Why listen?
What it means for you:
– How you can get, and use, the
resources
– Can you contribute?
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

4. A quick intro:
Gilly Salmon’s Five Step Model
• A model for socialising new learners
online (e-moderating + five step
model)
– First published 2000
• A model for activity design
(e-tivities)
• A course for those new / learning to
moderate online courses
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

5. Setting Out: Where is this from?
Experience 1: Wiki
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

6. Setting Out: Where is this from?
Experience 1: Wiki
• Why did this happen?
• What could be done to stop it?
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

7. Setting Out: Where is this from?
Experience 2: Questions of Scale
• Little help here (or anywhere else) about
scaling up for larger groups
• Little guidance elsewhere
• Other issues:
– No introduction or use of Moodle features
to support pedagogical approaches.
– ‘Cookie-cutter’ implementation (any VLE,
not our VLE)
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

8. Broader issues with five-step model
• It’s very good for those who haven’t learned or
interacted online before
• It’s clear and ordered and does a lot well (intro to
moderating etc.)
• BUT
– Expensive as a course
(~£3.5k for 15 people inc. £1k ’adaptation’ (porting) to local VLE)
– No guidance on scaling
– Doesn’t really reflect mobile access, social
networking, mobile connectivity:
• the VLE is “the place” learners will interact???
Where’s facebook. LinkedIn etc.?
– Implementation doesn’t really adapt to context:
what of VLE opportunities and constraints
(affordances)
• E.g. Q&A forum / each person posts / standard, activity
completion etc.
• Doesn’t structure how wikis can be made to work well
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

9. Main focus: What is it?
An induction to learning online using Moodle
• Trying to develop something that would work for our
distance learning students
• Develop materials so they could be used for staff
development and induction as well
– Introduce all the main discussion and collaboration
features of Moodle
– If students are introduced teachers can use them, if the
materials for students are there teachers can learn them
too
– Take steps to ensure sequence of activities and reading
instructions:
• avoid the wiki pitfalls! (use activity completion)
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

10. Main focus: What is it?
An induction to learning online using Moodle
• How it ran:
– https://modules.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=243
• OER version:
– https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26
– Includes: course overview, example posts, links to other OERs
for module and activity design, .mbz file and OU wiki templates.
– Doesn’t include: Scanned (copyright) readings, working SFX links
Accompanying Guides
– OU Wiki guide and others
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/moodle/
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

11. Taking it home:
How you can get these resources
• Self Register at
http://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk
• Go to category
Technology Enhanced Learning
then Moodle 2.3 Induction
• Use enrolment key:
Moodle2-3group1
or
Moodle2-3group2
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

12. Taking it home: what can you contribute?
• This is an OER! – Chat
– Database
• Submissions, additions
– Glossary
etc. welcome.
– Lesson
• What’s not there > – Questionnaire
– Not (yet?) on MOOCH. – Quiz
– SCORM package
– Workshop
– Book
– IMS Content
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1

13. THANKS 
• Self Register at http://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk
• Go to category
Technology Enhanced Learning
then Moodle 2.3 Induction
• Use enrolment key:
Moodle2-3group2 Steve Wright
Learning Technologist
or Lancaster University
Moodle2-3group1 s.t.wright@lancaster.ac.uk
https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26 key:
Moodle2-3group2 or Moodle2-3group1