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MootUK10 Delegate Survey
A brief summary of results
In an effort to get feedback on this year’s Moot and ask delegates to provide input for next year’s conference we’ve invited all 285 attendees to fill in our online survey. At closing of the polls on 7 May 2010 we had received 81 responses, giving us a 28% response rate.
There was an equal split of Moot first-timers (49.4%) and more seasoned Moot attendees (50.6%).
The majority (81%) of respondents gave this year’s Moot the thumbs up with either an Excellent (37%) or Good (44.4%) rating of the conference.This trend continues with 87.7% rating the conference venue and facilities at Senate House as Excellent (45.7%) or Good (42%).
However the catering didn’t fare so well with over a tenth of attendees rating it either Very Poor (3.7%) or Poor (8.6%).
The majority (78.4%) of delegates felt this year’s Moot provided value for money, with a fifth (21.6%) feeling it did not.
What went well?
Prof. Sugata’s keynote on Whole in The Wall project was named by most as an inspirational opening-keynote. Networking, meeting like-minded people to share experience and expertise and the good quality of workshops & presentations were named by many as key advantages of this year’s Moot.
‘I liked the sense of enthusiasm and drive of those there and it was great to see teachers and technicians with a common purpose. Good to see relative absence of commerciality.’
MoodleMoot UK 2010 delegate
What could be improved?
Many felt that the 1h workshop sessions were packed with too many small presentations allowing less time for Q&A and felt rushed at times, as one delegate said ‘quality instead of quantity on workshops’. More detailed information on workshops upon sign-up and facilitation of all sessions for time-keeping purpose have been mentioned as areas for improvements, as well as considering to live stream all keynotes and workshops as they happen.
There was also a general trend for delegates asking for more technical presentations, even suggestions of a technical strand running throughout the 2-day conference.
MoodleMoot UK 2010 – Feedback
Interesting feedback for next year’s Moot organisers is the preferred ticketing option, with almost half (45.3%) wishing for a more tech-focused pre-Moot event and a similar number of people (43.8%) being in favour the evening entertainment to be included in the ticket price.15.6% like to see overnight accommodation included in the MoodleMoot ticket price and a third (31.3%) prefers 1-day only tickets for the Moot.
The complete survey results can be viewed online, simply enter ‘moodlemootuk2010′ when prompted for a password.
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Give and take
Share your feedback and win 2 ticketsIt seems everyone had a great time at MoodleMoot UK 2010. To help us make sure next year’s organisers have a headstart we are putting together a little ‘how-to-run-a-Moot’ report with lessons learned.
A big part of this report will be the feedback from the delegates. What went well, and what didn’t? What should continue and what should go? To put it simple, what does the community want? So far we had 50 people filling in our online survey and already we had some great ideas how to make next year’s Moot better.
Please take 5min to complete the survey if you attended MoodleMoot UK 2010 and you are in with the chance to win 2 golden tickets for all upcoming events organised by ULCC in 2010.
What do you get?
First up will be Mahara UK 2010 to be held at Westminster Kingsway College’s King’s Cross campus on Friday, 16 Juy 2010. The first Mahara conference was held at the Institute of Education in 2009 and was a great success. It looks to quickly become an established annual event which attracted over 100 delegates last year.
October 2010 will see the 3rd run of FOTE (Future of Technology in Education) looking at trends and challenges impacting the academic sector in the coming years.
Last but not least we’ll be rounding up the year with our annual Wonderland event in December, with a day of keynotes and workshops sharing best practice and exploring the future of VLEs and their role in supporting teaching and learning.
So you see, not a bad deal for 5min of your time….
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Feedback from Anne plus …
As a first-time MoodleMooter I would like to add my twopenn’orth here and say that I particularly enjoyed the friendliness of all whom I spoke to. I feel rather red-faced with embarrassment because I was the one whose husband gatecrashed the wonderful guided tour. I recently unearthed this vintage picture of us both …
URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr-anne/4562826803I like playing with the technology and as a result, I’ve produced the following alternative personal write-ups:
mind map
I used mind42.com to create a personal mind map that carries links and quotes: (first time ever using mind42 – very easy to use. Use the icons at the bottom to collapse/expand.)
http://mind42.com/pub/mindmap?mid=979fe0f6-a7bb-451b-987a-cbdb1603bb65Very unofficial images
I used a flip for the movies, a phone for the stills, imovie to put it together (there is a little sound):
And finally…
I really enjoyed MoodleMoot. It was one of the most refreshing events that I had been to for a long time.
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MoodleMootUK 2010: A View from the Trenches
Philip Butler, ULCC
From Philip Butler ULCC, Chair of MMUK10 Programme Committee
Running on adrenalin during MoodleMoot UK 2010 (#mootuk10) meant that the following days have been returning to earth with a bump! I imagine it’s similar to what astronauts must have felt when returning to earth; the world is familiar but strangely different. The annual UK Moot took place 13 & 14 April 2010 with the impressive University of London’s Senate House as its backdrop. Over 250 excited delegates arrived from all over the UK, along with a good proportion coming from as far away as Adelaide, New York, Beirut, Trinidad, Finland, The Hague, Austria and Russia.
I’ve successfully navigated ‘re-entry’ although I’m still suffering remnants of MoodleMoot cold turkey! I can now look back over an extraordinary experience and pen a very personal report in an attempt to capture all the good things that happened. Martin & David wrote about their experience in the breakout session, feel free to comment or get in touch with to have your guest blog post featured on the blog.
Ross Mackensie, the Open University
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Facilitator Post – David Hooper
MoodleMoot Workshops
I would certainly echo Martin Sepion’s comments about the opening presentations from Professor Geoffrey Crossick and Professor Sugata Mitra being good – they kicked off the Moot with a buzz that lasted the whole conference. I facilitated the Moodle in Schools workshop which was equally inspiring; children in year 2 upwards were using moodle with a variety of colourful themes (one memorably based around creepy crawly bugs!) which had been purchased by the LEA and offered to the schools. Parents seemed to welcome the involvement by using Moodle at home with the children’s schooling. Interestingly it was also used to help with the transition between years by introducing new teachers and classes via Moodle ahead of time.
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Facilitating at MoodleMoot 2010
Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating four workshops at MoodleMoot 2010 held at University of London Senate House which was very convenient for me as all I had to do was go upstairs to attend.
Nitin Parmar, University of Bath
The event had a real energy throughout the two days, which was kick started by a visionary speech from the incoming Vice Chancellor of University of London, Professor Geoffrey Crossick. He impressed me with his knowledge of IT and its potential to enhance learning, which I hadn’t expected from a university Vice Chancellor. Next was the charismatic and very thought-provoking Professor Sugata Mitra. I have heard Professor Mitra speak several times before and he has always stolen the show. Everyone was talking about his presentation throughout the conference. His brilliant presentation was based on his work in exploring how to use technology to educate children who do not have access to English speaking teachers or computers. He showed the power of the social constructivist model where, in his experiments, children are able to learn through social interaction with a computer without the active in-put of a teacher. The role he takes with children is more that of a facilitator. He sets children puzzles in an informal setting and gets incredible results.
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When Technical meet Educational
Moodle success needs both teachers and IT staff to sing from the same hymnsheet. First you must get them to the same church. We will present some possible directions for your consideration.
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Moodlenomics – what is it?
Unfortunately a lot of the description for the moodlenomics session seems to have gone astray, so I thought I would provide this as a summary, so that people can decide if it sounds interesting.
Open source projects like Moodle are not a case of someone programming in their spare bedroom after work any more. In order to survive and grow, they have to have a robust management structure and funding model.
In “The anatomy of a major open source project”, we are not talking about how the programming and/or designing is arranged, or anything like that, we are going to be talking about how the Moodle organisation itself is supported – where the funding comes from in order to pay people, what those people do, and how the moodle model compares with funding models used by other major open-source projects such as Sakai and Apache.
So if you are interested in how such a large project survives, please come along.
Submitted by Sean M Keogh
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Moodle supporting 14-19 diploma delivery
The 14-19 education reforms mean we need to work more collaboratively sharing resources, approaches and provision. As a rural county geography gets in the way so the idea of subject based Moodle communities seemed like a perfect solution. We now have fourteen covering each 14-19 vocational area.
Setting them up and getting resources on has been the easy bit. On the whole teachers and other colleagues involved in 14-19 education like the subject Moodles and agree with the principle of shared subject communities.
The hard bit has been getting them to incorporate this into the way they communicate and the way they teach. We’ve learned a lot over the last few years. My aim is to share that learning with you via my workshop at the Moot. Look forward to seeing you there
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Moodling from Down Under
Boss: I think you should go to the UK Moot this year.
Me: Um, ok.
And so started my adventure of coming from the small town of Adelaide, South Australia, to London for the 2010 UK Moodle Moot.
As opening day for the Moot approaches and I start to think seriously about my first trip ever to the UK, I have also been lucky enough to be asked to contribute to the Moot blog to share some thoughts and ideas about why I’m heading over.
Firstly, there will be three of us heading over from Adelaide – myself, James Strong and Allan Christie – we’ll be the funny sounding ones, probably with jetlag. Stop us and say hello if you get the chance. Or at least stop me and say hello – as the least well travelled of my companions (and a small town boy at heart) I’ll be the one looking like, well, a small town boy wandering around one of the largest cities in the world…
But why come over in the first place?
Working for the largest Moodle Partner in the Southern Hemisphere is great and has taken me to lots of places around Australia, but it is also quite isolated in regard to meeting some of the ‘big names’ from the North. In particular I’m looking forward to (hopefully) meeting some people from the Open University, which is still considered by many as the ‘holy grail’ of campus-wide University implementations, so if you are at the Moot from the Open Uni then please come and say hello – we’d love to hear your experiences.
Then there is the presentation I’ll be co-delivering with James Strong, which will be all about the people, processes and platforms required to run an Enterprise Moodle environment.
I’m also keen to see how significant the regional differences are in the Moodle communities (if there are any), to meet people I’ve interacted with online, and really just to experience a Moot on the other side of the globe. Then there’s the little matter of seeing how many ideas I can ‘borrow’ for the Australian Moot I’m helping organise in July – I have been watching the Moot UK team work their way through the various challenges of organising an event like this and getting just a little nervous about the amount of effort involved… And of course I, like most, will be keeping an eye out for any presentations on Moodle 2.0 as we draw ever nearer to the beta release.
Whatever the case, I can’t wait to get over there and experience at least a little bit of London, see what I hope will be some innovative and thought-provoking presentations and meet as many people in the global Moodle community as I can.
Roll on the 13th!
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