Implementing Moodle at traditional universities in Poland

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Implementing Moodle at traditional universities
in Poland
MoodleMoot 2004 19 July 2004, Oxford

• dr Anna Grabowska
• Zbigniew Jarosik
• Distance Education Centre
• at Gdansk University of Technology
• Poland

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Why distance learning?

• Cause
• University overload
• Lifelong learning
• Problems
• Costs of materials preparation
• Fear of incompetence
• Solution Moodle
• Minimal costs of implementation
• Very friendly interface
• Easy to administrate

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Distance Education Centre
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Few words about us

• Raised in 1997
• Creating access for students and staff of the TUG
  to study materials, correspondance lessons,
  scripts and communication environment using LAN
  (Local Area network), MAN (Metropolitan Area
  Network) and WAN (Wide Area Network) facilities.
• Developing distance education course modules and
  adaptation of existing EU distance education
  course modules in subject areas of importance to
  the economic and social development in Poland.
• Improving access to education and training by
  establishing the flexible teaching environment
  concerning distance, time, choice of course
  providers and teaching resources.

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Tested platforms

• FirstClass
• Learning Space
• WebCT
• Oracle i-learning
• Problems
• Expensive!
• Hard to administrate
• Horrible hardware requirements

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First Contact

• First implementation Ethics Online
• 2003-05-05 090843 select from_unixtime(1052118
  523)
• Migration from simple html page with linked pdf
  documents

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Our first Moodle community support

• Translation Moodle interface to polish
• Done by two students of Faculty of IT on Gdansk
  University of Technology
• Polish Translation
• -------------------
• Maintainer Poznan School of Banking (Wyzsza
  Szkola Bankowa w Poznaniu)
• Adam Pawelczak ltadam.pawelczak_at_wsb.poznan.plgt
• Przemyslaw Polanski ltppolanski_at_pooh.wsb.poznan.plgt
  
• Contributors Distance Education Centre at Gdansk
  University of Technology (DECTUG)
• Michal Wozniak, Lukasz Wrona
• If you'd like to contribute any corrections or
  aditions, please send them to adam.pawelczak_at_wsb.p
  oznan.pl
• Adam Pawelczak, Poznan, 2003-09-21

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Methods of Moodle implementation and promotion at
our University

• Main engine (University level) at
  http//www.dec.pg.gda.pl/moodle/
• Clones (migration to faculties)
• http//www.okno.pg.gda.pl/
• http//www.eti.wirtualnie.pl/
• Implementing Moodle as a platform for
  co-ordination the Consortium Project
• http//www.dec.pg.gda.pl/konsorcjum/
• Using Moodle as a platform for EU projects
  support while courses are offered as a regular
  study or for free
• In CURE project (Research Framework Programme 5,
  2002-2005)
• http//www.dec.pg.gda.pl/moodle/course/category.ph
  p?id12
• http//www.dec.pg.gda.pl/moodle/course/category.ph
  p?id1
• In EMDEL project (Leonardo da Vinci, 2001-2004)
• http//www.dec.pg.gda.pl/moodle/course/category.ph
  p?id22

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Main engine (1 of 4)

• Faculty of Chemistry
• Only as virtual consultation system

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Main engine (2 of 4)

• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Support for IT Basics
• Materials repository
• Consultation system
• Examination system

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Main engine (3 of 4)

• English Discussion Club
• Forum

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Main engine (4 of 4)

• Faculty of Architecture
• Consultation system
• Support for postgraduate studies

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First clone

• Faculty of Civil Engineering

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Second clone

• Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and
  Informatics

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First Guests from other high schools

• Gdynia Maritme University
• Database course
• 
  Medical University of Gdansk
• 
  Ethics in management

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Methods of Moodle promotion and implementation at
national level

• Konsorcjum Uczelni Technicznych (Technical
  Universities Consortium)
• The goal of Consortium is to develop online
  courses for candidates for technical studies
  (Math and Physics).

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Methods of Moodle promotion and implementation at
international level

• EMDEL - European Model for Distance Education and
  Learning
• Moodle will be a platform for free courses
  localization

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What will be next

• Moodle conference in Poland
• Moodle in gimnasium and secondary schools in
  Poland
• Moodle in new EU projects (Leonardo da Vinci,
  Structural Funds)
• Moodle for students and candidates for university
  studies
• Moodle everywhere and for everybody