EMPOWERING MOODLE AT YOUR INSTITUTION Wissam Nahas - eLearning Manager Moodle Team American University of Beirut - AUB

1. EMPOWERING MOODLE AT YOUR
INSTITUTION
Wissam Nahas - eLearning Manager
Moodle Team
American University of Beirut -
AUB

2. Outline
 LMS at AUB
 Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB
 Application side
 Dedicated team for support and consultation
 Well defined material and guidelines
 Offering different types of course delivery
 Blended program
 Tips for encouraging faculty to teach using LMS
 Outcome
 LMS Growth @ AUB
 What’s next?
 Q&A

3. American University of Beirut - AUB
 Founded in 1866
 Top university in the ME
 Middle States' accreditation
 64 buildings over an area of 61-
acre
 More than 100 programs
 Around 8000 students
 Faculty to students ration 1/13

4. LMS@ AUB
 WebCT - Fall 2001
 Moodle - Summer 2005
 74% of AUB course-sections uses Moodle
(Using Moodle is optional by faculty)
 Web-enhanced and Blended course delivery
 A couple of online courses
 Moodle 2
 Piloting Moodle 2 – Summer 2012
 Official move to Moodle 2 – Fall 2012

5. Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB
 (1) - Application side
 User friendly
 Customizable application
 Flexibility and easy integration with existing
applications
 Simple scripts that can trigger the database for
reports

6. Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB
 (2) - Dedicated team for support and consultation
Who we are
 eLearning Team
 eLearning Manager, Application Support Analyst, System
Administrator, Instructional Designer & Student Work Program
 Participation in MoodleMoot UK since 2007
 Up-to-date with the online community
 Moodle.org, Moodle docs, Moodle news…
 Membership in
 SLOANC (Sloan Consortium)
 MVCR (Illinois online Network)
 Latest Moodle versions & plug-ins

7. Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB
 (2) - Dedicated team
What we do
 Phone and email support
 Workshops and one-on-one custom sessions
 Enhanced support for quizzes
 Faculty to faculty
 Faculty Seminars, Round table, Brown bags & international
conferences
 Effective use of LMS Workshops
 Web enhanced – continuous consultation – assessing
courses

8. Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB
 (3) - Well defined material and guidelines
 Well defined tutorials, FAQs and quick guides
 Selected as one of the top five sites by Moodle news
 Different forms to suit faculty and students’ requests
 Detailed steps for successful online quizzes
 Documentation
 Moodle admin settings
 Code edits
 Beginning and ending of semester procedure
 Backup course/activity with user data

9. Reasons behind flourishing Moodle at AUB
 Offering different types of course delivery:
 Web enhanced
 Blended program
 Online courses – few cases
 Blended programs – blended workshops for 8 weeks

10. Tips to encourage faculty
 Promote the use of Moodle without forcing faculty to
use it
 Conduct surveys for faculty & students
 Academic events
 Brown bags, round tables, faculty seminars, international
conferences
 Create learning objects

11. Outcome
 Significant progress of using LMS @ AUB
 Leadership in region
 International conference
 Non-academic and off campus projects

12. LMS Growth @ AUB

13. What’s next?
 Moodle 2 summer 2012
 Increase the use to 80%
 Effective use
 Moodle Mobile
 Integration Social media
 Advance Integration with Banner: grades

14. Questions?
 Thank you!
 Contact information:
Wissam Nahas
wissamn@aub.edu.lb
Academic Core Processes & Systems
www.aub.edu.lb/it/acps
Moodle @ AUB
http://moodle.aub.edu.lb