General
How to enrol in this course (page):
Topic outline
Conference Forums
Keep up-to-date and ask questions about the upcoming Moodle Moot!
Keynote and Featured Speakers
Martin Dougiamas (remote presentation)
Founder and lead developer of Moodle
Title: Feedback
Feedback is one of the universal laws of education. I will be discussing how it works and how you can use it to design your education program.
Shoji Kajita, Ph. D
IT Planning Office, Institute for Information Management and Communication, Kyoto University
Title: The History and the Development of LMS: Current Status and Challenges of New Teaching and Learning Environment Redefined by Commoditized Learning Management System
Learning Management System (LMS), which is also referred to as ‘Course Management System’ (CMS) from a teaching viewpoint, had rapidly gained popularity since around 1998, and has become commoditized in higher educational institutions (especially in north American institutions). Although Japanese higher educational institutions are almost ten years behind, the LMS/CMS has also penetrated into the Japanese teaching and learning environment, and we have seen an increasing number of use cases unbounded to PC terminal rooms such as MOOC and Flipped Classroom, due to the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy. As a result, it is becoming more important to integrate learning spaces in the cyber world and those in the physical world. This talk addresses the current status and challenges of new teaching and learning environment in the commoditized LMS/CMS.
Marina Glancy
Development Process Manager, Moodle Head Quarters
Title: What Does 'Open-source' and 'Community-driven' Mean for Moodle Development?
When you start working with Moodle and explore it’s potential you might not even realise how many people were involved in the preparation of the final product. Thousands of users around the world participate not only in development but also in suggesting features, providing support, testing, translations and writing documentation for Moodle. In my presentation I will show many different ways of how Moodle users can actively participate in the product and how Moodle HQ organises these processes. Being open source makes code contributions much easier. By allowing everybody to take part in the code development, Moodle can satisfy the requirements of a broad user base and provide a wider set of features compared to boxed distributions developed by one team. This diversity of code can bring some disadvantages however, which I will also mention. I will cover what being open source means for security and how Moodle addresses it.
Key Dates
2014 August 25th (Mon): Open Call for Papers
2014 October 31st (Fri): Close Call for 'Academic' and 'Case Study' type Papers
2014 December 8th (Mon): Notification of acceptance of submissions
2014 December 29th (Mon): Deadline for improvements to submissions
2014 December 29th (Mon): Close CALL for Workshop, Sponsor and AM type presentations
2015 January 5th (Mon): Moot registration deadline for presenters
2015 January 12th (Mon) Preliminary schedule published
2015 February 9th (Mon): Moot registration deadline for non-presenters
2015 February 16th (Mon): Participation Payment Deadline for all
2015 February 20h (Fri) ~ 22nd (Sun): The Conference (Workshops are on 20th)
Details of the Moot Venue
Walking tour of Kyoto
A walking tour will sponsored by the Kyoto Sangyo English Studying Society (ESS). Meet at 1pm at the Holly's Cafe on Friday afternoon, Feb. 20. Free of charge. The participants will visit Yasaka Shrine, Kiyomizu-Dera and the Gojo-Zaka area with its many specialty shops.
Presentation submissions
In order to make a submission you need to:
Academic submissions (via ConfTool)
- Presentation 40 mins
- Presentation 90 mins
- Showcase, up to 90 mins
- Lightning Talk 5 to 10 mins
AND Non Academic AND non-commercial presentations (via ConfTool)
- Case Study 20 mins
- Workshop coordinator for English workshops
Eric Hagley
hagley@mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp
尚、達人バーのことならハグリーまで連絡して下さい。hagley@mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp(日本語もOK)For Japanese and English applications to man the genius bar, please contact Eric Hagley at the address above.
Sponsors and AM Submissions, apply to Sponsors and AM Coordinator- Sponsor and AM coordinator
Takeshi Matsuzaki (English is OK)
matsuzakit@e-learning.co.jp
Moot Registration and MAJ Membership
This is the process you need to follow to register to the Moot (conference) and/or become a member of the Moodle Association of Japan.
1) First, read the "Membership Categories and Fees" page below and make sure you understand the different member categories.
2) Next, please go to the following page and create your own account in this MAJ moodle site.
https://moodlejapan.org/login/index.php
3) After logging in to this site with your new account, please come back to this page and click the "Moot 2015 Participant Registration and MAJ Membership" link below, then you will be connected to the ConfTool conference management system. There you can register yourself for the moot (and membership).
4) For payment, follow the directions in "Payment methods" page below. Thank you.Presentation schedule and details
Tentative start/end time of 2015 Moot
Feb. 20th 11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 18:00Registration
WorkshopsFeb 21st 8:30 - 9:30
9:30 - 18:00
18:00 - 20:00Registration
Presentations
Network PartyFeb 22nd 9:00 - 16:00 Presentations
