Dec 15, 2008

Stretching Moodle for healthcare innovation

Moodle has become the preferred e-learning platform for the academic community. Moodle combines active learning and pedagogical innovation.
Some of its features (student centredness, open source, lecturer control...) have convinced to reach LMS summit. Even though the current version is not 2.0ish, it is expected that it will be fairly improved in the next version (actually named 2.0).

We did consider to stretching Moodle for business (healthcare) innovation purposes and these are the results of our group session.

What is an innovation group?
A group of people that share a common goal and think and discuss to advance a topic to be implemented in a real context (application). Group members then share visions, documents and thoughts during and undefined time span.
It may exist a working plan (but it may considerably differ) and a set of deliverables might be set beforehand.
The innovation group drivers are participation, thinking differently, making knowledge explicit, bringing new ideas...

What Moodle could offer for innovation?
[Needs & Tools]

1. Gathering opinion: Queries, Surveys (internal use only), Forums (debates, input quality appraisal)
2. Subgroups: Queries
3. Managing tasks and events: metacourse as parent and multiple activities as dependants
4. Communication: internal messaging
5. Participation monitoring: monitor engine, reporting (activity, participant), input quality appraisal through forums.
6. Resources management: based on active roles
7. Collaboration: blog (personal rather than group blog), wiki, glossary (automatic linkage)

Tasks: to receive input from participants (non shareable)
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have you checked Social Media Classroom
http://www.ictconsequences.net/2008/12/11/online-social-networks-roundtable-with-howard-rheingold/