Monday, November 17, 2008
8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Abstract:
The goal of this tutorial is to give participants all they need to quickly get started with e-learning. The focus is on organizing courses (course management) and _NOT_ on content creation. In the first part of the tutorial they learn everything they need to set up their first courses for a small department using Moodle. The second part presents a light-weight approach of the project management necessary to introduce an e-learning platform at a larger scale.
Objectives:
Benefits for Participants
* Hands-on experience how to set-up Moodle on a Microsoft Windows system.
* Ready-to-use templates for the project management when introducing larger-scale e-learning solution
Resources
After the conference participants will have access to a recording of how to perform the installation and links to the appropriate downloads.
In addition template documents will be available that participants can use when managing projects.
Outline:
First Part
* Introduction to Moodle
* System Requirements
* Installation of a Web Server, database, and Moodle (Demo or Hands-on),
* First steps in Moodle: Setting up courses, assigning lecturers, using resources and simple forms of grading students. (Demo or Hands-on)
* Advanced teaching concepts and the constructivist approach of Moodle.
Second Part
* Vision Document
* Choosing a platform and how to convince people (requirements analysis and evaluation) - Prototype installations
* Planning the implementation
* Possible options of introducing Moodle at a large university where many other smaller legacy platforms exists.
Prerequisites:
Target Audience
Lecturers that need to quickly set up a personal e-learning platform for themselves or for few coworkers. (Part 1 of the tutorial)
Inexperienced project managers or lecturers that have never managed large-scale implementation projects (Part 2 of the tutorial)
Intended Experience Level:
Beginner
Instructor Qualifications:
Edgar R. Weippl (CISSP, CISA, CISM) is Science Director of Secure Business Austria and university assistant at the Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on applied concepts of IT-security and e-learning. Edgar has taught several tutorials on security issues in e-learning at international conferences, including ED-MEDIA 2003-2007 and E-Learn 2005. In 2005, he published Security in E-Learning with Springer.
After graduating with a Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology, Edgar worked for two years in a research startup. He then spent one year teaching as an assistant professor at Beloit College, WI. From 2002 to 2004, while with the software vendor ISIS Papyrus, he worked as a consultant for an HMO (Empire BlueCross BlueShield) in New York, NY and Albany, NY, and for Deutsche Bank (PWM) in Frankfurt, Germany.
Full CV available at http://www.weippl.com/cv.pdf