Moodling without Internet

Dr Helen Farley

Australian Digital Futures Institute

University of Southern Queensland

61% of the world’s population is without internet

The Learning Management System

Assumes connectivity

What happens when universities go paperless?

Antarctic workers

Fly in fly outDrive in drive out workers

Regional, rural and remote communities

Prisoners

Education reduces recidivismImproves employability

Decreases conflictImproves relationshipsStabilises communities

$80,000 per year per prisoner to keep

$70,000 to sentence

PLEIADES

Stand Alone Moodle

• Interactivity and access to multimedia

• Proof of concept

• Too labour intensive

• USQ shifted from Moodle 1.9 to 2.1

• Shared server

• Issues with training

eBook Readers

• To supplement Stand Alone Moodle

• Incarcerated students spend 2 – 3 hours per week in computer labs

• Conversion of materials to ePub

• Copyright a major issue

From Access to Success• From Access to Success:

Improving the Higher Education Learning Experience for Students without Internet Access

• OLT-funded $217,000

• Finishes May 2015

• Automation of key processes including installation

Automatic installation of server environment

Automatic installation of Moodle

Repackaging of Moodle courses

And what did the students think?

Student 1: It’s easy to use... [ But] I didn’t use it much ... I’m not real computer savvy.

Student 2: I used a lot of the quizzes. The quizzes gave me another platform for learning and were quite helpful. It helped me negotiate my way around the computer.

Student 3: I didn’t want to use this and this and this [various different media] I just wanted to get it done.

Making the Connection

Improving Access to Higher Education for Low Socio-Economic Status Students with ICT Limitations

People

Process Technology

Making the Connection

• $.4.4 million over 3 years

• 13 correctional centres (in Qld, WA, Victoria)

• Stand Alone Moodle

• Tablets

A complete pathway

Working with community

Paper to Pixels

The future …

All photos from Flickr …• Breaking all chains by Kristian Niemi

• beachy look by PuzzleMonkey!

• LEGO micro world map by dirkb86

• those constipation blues by Jes

• Toolbox by Florian Richter

• Eslabones / Links --- [EXPLORE] by Juan Ramón Martos

• Illuminated Paper Blowing in the Wind by mymodernment

• Antarctica, November 2007 by Martha de Jong-Lantink

• bjd_arkaroola-mt-gee_oct-07_0570 by bill doyle

• The Prisoner by Raúl G. Huergo

• The Pleiades by Jeremy Stanley

• Avery Watts - Hard Work by Avery Watts

• Progress by Sean MacEntee

• Would You Buy This Hat? by Mike Styer

• package! by Beck Gusler

• 32/52 – Connection by Matt

• …Hope… by Darren Tunnicliff

• A pathway through a field of flowers by World Bank Photo Collection

• Open Source Bart by J. Albert Bowden II

• Laurie Pink by "That's not all, Folks!"

• ~thank you~ by Amber McNamara

Helen FarleyAustralian Digital Futures InstituteUniversity of Southern Queensland

Ph: 07 4631 1738Email: helen.farley@usq.edu.au