A pedagogical evaluation of moodle extensions

Margot McNeill; Matt Bower; Kathleen Curtis; John Hedberg

A pedagogical evaluation of moodle extensions

Margot McNeill^*, Matt Bower, Kathleen Curtis, John Hedberg

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There has been a shift by the Australasian tertiary education sector towards open source Learning Management Systems (LMSs), in part due to the potential for extending and tailoring the systems using community sourced plugins. This paper reports on a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of Moodle extensions based on a six-month cross-faculty project conducted at Macquarie University. Findings included that despite over several hundred plugins and patches being uploaded to the Moodle Community website, the reference group only deemed nine of these as suitable for extending the functionality of the University LMS. The paper also describes the process and instruments that were utilised to evaluate the extensions themselves, which could be of interest to others making decisions about how best to balance the flexibility afforded by open source environment with extensibility within the constraints of complex and diverse institutional needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASCILITE 2012 - Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education
Editors	M. Brown, M. Hartnett, T. Stewart
Place of Publication	Palmerston North, New Zealand
Publisher	Massey University
Pages	1-11
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9780473229894
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2012 - Wellington, New Zealand Duration: 25 Nov 2012 → 28 Nov 2012

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Other	Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2012
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Wellington
Period	25/11/12 → 28/11/12

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McNeill, M., Bower, M., Curtis, K., & Hedberg, J. (2012). A pedagogical evaluation of moodle extensions. In M. Brown, M. Hartnett, & T. Stewart (Eds.), ASCILITE 2012 - Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education (pp. 1-11). Massey University. http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/Wellington12/2012/images/custom/mcneil%2c_margot_-_a_pedagogical.pdf

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McNeill, M, Bower, M, Curtis, K & Hedberg, J 2012, A pedagogical evaluation of moodle extensions. in M Brown, M Hartnett & T Stewart (eds), ASCILITE 2012 - Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education. Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, pp. 1-11, Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2012, Wellington, New Zealand, 25/11/12. <http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/Wellington12/2012/images/custom/mcneil%2c_margot_-_a_pedagogical.pdf>

A pedagogical evaluation of moodle extensions. / McNeill, Margot; Bower, Matt; Curtis, Kathleen et al.
ASCILITE 2012 - Annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education. ed. / M. Brown; M. Hartnett; T. Stewart. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Massey University, 2012. p. 1-11.

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