MoodleNet: the world’s first federated social network for educators
Doug Belshaw�MoodleNet Product Manager
March 2020
#moodlenet
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Our mission
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Overview
Overview
Every Moodle LMS site is a private space for teaching and learning
How can educators connect together to better share great ideas & resources?
is a new open social media platform for educators, focused on professional development and open content.
It sustainably empowers communities of educators to share and learn from each other to improve the quality of education. MoodleNet will be an integral part of the Moodle ecosystem.
Overview
Who is MoodleNet for?
Learning Technologists
Sysadmins
Trainers
Teaching Assistants
Educators
(e.g. teachers and lecturers)
Challenges
Needs
Hypothesis
Educators don’t just need a more powerful search engine, because...
Overview
MoodleNet helps educators who want to find high quality teaching and learning resources because it enables them to discuss and curate resources from around the web.
(Unlike randomly searching Google.)
Estrella
Scenario 1: Educators
Takeshi
MoodleNet helps learning technologists who want to encourage colleagues to use more technology by connecting them with like-minded peers and providing them with resources that are of immediate use.
(Unlike endlessly searching OER repositories.)
Seung
Scenario 2: Learning Technologists
Ammaarah
MoodleNet helps system administrators who want to allow their colleagues to share (appropriate and legal) resources, both internally and with peers worldwide. MoodleNet provides an easy-to-deploy, secure, scalable system and a dashboard that provides administrators with insights.
(Unlike a locked-down repository for sharing resources only within their organisation.)
Scenario 3: Sysadmins
MoodleNet helps trainers and teaching assistants who want to create and showcase their courses. By incentivising them to create openly-licensed resources, MoodleNet also enables them to create a professional profile showing their achievements.
(Unlike using several social and professional networks in an attempt to create the same effect.)
Bohdan
Scenario 4: Trainers & TAs
Lúcio
Design sprint (mid-2018)
Testing value proposition (early 2019)
Completely rewritten (early 2020)
Discover
My MoodleNet
Communities
Collections
Add resource (URL)
Add resource (upload)
Search
Profile
Settings
Overview
is a federated social network.
Let’s have a closer look at what that means, and why it’s important.
Email works everywhere...
...because it’s built on open standards
home.moodle.net/@moodler
HOME
INSTANCE
ANOTHER
INSTANCE
ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol from the World Wide Web Consortium (or ‘W3C’). These are the people who ensure you can visit websites using any browser. They set the standards to make sure things work.
This new ActivityPub protocol means that social networks can be interoperable with one another. Just as you can choose from a range of email providers, so with ActivityPub you can choose from a range of social networks for different purposes.
Usernames include instance domain
Mothership
(search index of public MN data)
Image: opensource.com
is AGPL licensed
Advantages of federated systems:
Overview
Priorities
Priorities (cont.)
Next few weeks
Then...
Near timeline
Post-1.0
Product Manager
Technical Architect
Front-end Developer
Backend Developer (Federation)
Backend Developer (Core)
UX Designer & Front-end Developer
MoodleNet
Backend developer (Core)
Front-end developer
MoodleNet extended team
Special thanks
César Awad, Phil Barker, Miles Berry, Luca Bösch, cj, Ruben Cancho, Hubert Chathi, Thomas Citharel, Mary Cooch, Rob Cornish, Matt Crow, Elizabeth Dalton, Nolan Damon, Julie Day, Debashish Datta, Vijay Anand Deenadayalan, Martin Deinhofer, Vicke Denniston, Noel De Martin, Stephen Downes, James Easton, Andy Field, Lynn Foster, Rogério Furtado, Wayne Gibbons, Sam Gluck, Meg Goodine, Jessica Gramp, Jim Groom, Ralf Hagemeister, Grainne Hamilton, Bob Haugen, Martin Hawksey, Ralf Hilgenstock, Laura Hilliger, Don Hinkelman, Matthew Hodgson, Mandy Honeyman, John Hunter, Kristina Ishmael, Rick Jerz, Chris Kenniburg, Khari Khambon, Tim Klapdor, John Kuti, Clint Lalonde, Kin Lane, Mike Larsson, KS Læring, Alan Levine, François Lizotte, Lilian Low, Bryan Mathers, Dan McGuire, Scott McLeod, Greg McVerry, Ian O’Byrne, Alan O’Donohoe, Richard Oelmann, Nitin Parmar, Mark Pegrum, Adam Procter,Oliver Quinlan, Felipe Raimo, Ben Reynolds, Emma Richardson, Julian Ridden, R. John Robertson, Tom Salmon, Luiggi Sansonetti, John Saylor, Séverin Terrier, Amber Thomas, Christian Turton, Kayleigh Walsh, Martin Weller, Ben Wilson, Tom Woodward, Cyril Z
+ ALL OF OUR TESTERS + EVERYONE AT MOODLE HQ
Also thanks to:
moodlenet-moderators@moodle.com
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