f you have been following our global MoodleMoot news, you might have noticed that our last Moot for the 2017 year was in Mumbai, India, from 18 – 19 December.
And can we say, what a Moot to end the 2017 Moot season.
For two days, over 180 Moodlers across all regions of India gathered to inspire, share and empower others with creative ways that our open-source learning platform can be used.
A BIG thank you must go to our amazing event committee, made up of passionate local Moodle community, who gave up so much of their time and energy with so many aspects of our conference.
So, thank you’s go to:
- Farhan Karmali
- Meenakshi Choudhary
- Sandeep Baghel
- Sakshi Goel
- Sashikala
- Michelle Chawla
Now Moodlers, sit back and enjoy our two day recap of what happened when Moodle HQ descended into Mumbai for MoodleMoot India 2017.
Day 1 – keynote and amazing Moodle presentations
Excitement for the Moot started early on Monday 18 December, with our event committee and Moodle HQ staff up and early to set up at our venue at the Sahara Star!
All set for #MootIN17 it’s finally happening yaay . pic.twitter.com/Qh7bujOION
— Farhan Karmali (@farhan6318) December 18, 2017
Behind the scenes before it all started #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/HPY81uaQIj
— Farhan Karmali (@farhan6318) December 18, 2017
I just love Moodle too much #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/7XvEvlE1Cu
— Farhan Karmali (@farhan6318) December 18, 2017
Opening the first day of the Moot was our Founder and CEO, Martin Dougiamas, delivering an address on “empowering educators” and providing information on key projects at Moodle HQ, new things to look forward to in 2018 (and there are plenty…stay tuned for the video).
Martin spent some time challenging our audience about the power of open source, open education and open anything to provide quality opportunities and education as a basic human right.
@moodler in action here at #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/ioFFCCCtiz
— Rajiv Sathian (@SathianRajiv) December 18, 2017
Open is the only way to bypass the world today…and try to create freedom…@moodler #mootin17
— Michelle (@tamarindtree2) December 18, 2017
A dream of empowered #educators #teachers envisioned by Dr Martin Dougiamas #MootIN17 quality #education must be a basic human right world wide pic.twitter.com/ROEeF7cFA1
— Farhan Karmali (@farhan6318) December 18, 2017
After an empowering keynote, Moodlers from around the India took to the stage to share with the audience how our learning platform is being used in so many ways to solve many questions and challenges in education, socially and in companies.
Here are some of the presentations on Day 1:
- Moodle at DY Patil University – Presentation by Vrundan Jadhav (DY Patil University)
- Moodle and University Teaching-Learning Process in India presented by Dr Smita Shukla Director Alkesh Dinesh Modi Institute Mumbai University
- Making Legal Education Accessible – Our Experience with Moodle presented by Ms. Kalpana Yadav
- Moodle in Medical Education – Lessons from Flipped classroom study presented by Dr. Viveka S and Dr. Sudha M J
- USER-IP Mapping presented by Ms. Amrata Ramchandani, Ms. Kashmira Nagwekar and Prof. P Sunthar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
- Content creation to content moderation using Moodle presented by Mr. Giridharan Dhanasekar (Photon University)
- Development of Report Plugin presented by Dr. Urmila Pol (Shivaji University)
- Heartbeat mechanism in Moodle Quiz presented by Ms. Kashmira Nagwekar and Ms. Amrata Ramchandani (IIT Bombay)
- Breaking Barriers – Challenges of using Moodle at Elementary level presented by Ms. Michelle Chawla (Tamarind Tree)
- Moodle Course Search presented by Mr. Shashikant Vaishnav (Linux User Group Bikaner)
Now @vrundan21 is explaining how the DY Patil University is using Moodle in #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/GJdUA4uakH
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 18, 2017
Kalpana Yadav from IDIA at the Moodle #MootIN17 basically rocking the world of law for underprivileged children, using Moodle pic.twitter.com/FyokSssF8L
— Daniel Divyakumar H (@dan_ajcfreak) December 18, 2017
Fantastically put in by Dr. Indira Koneru, we need motivated contributions from as much educators as possible to build up the Moodle culture in India. Let’s learn more of Moodle to create a “Moodle Army” in India.#MootIN17 #moodle #edtechindia
— Arindam Ghosh (@boinchee) December 19, 2017
Sitting at the seashore and completing submissions – enhancing quality of learning for visually impaired #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/6xt8mYX0vS
— Frances Le Page (@Frankiillouise) December 19, 2017
The key for preparing a flipped classroom is integrate assessments on the video for making them more interactive using H5P. Thanks Dr Viveka for sharing your experience in medical education #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/XfG9lia0HZ
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 18, 2017
After inspiring presentations, our Moodlers were then introduced to our new Learn Moodle curriculum, by our Education Manager, Tom Murdock.
Moodlers, it’s time to get your minds working! Choose between the introduction to the #LearnMoodle masterclass with #Moodle HQ’s @tom_murdock, or the dev jam (Pearl Ballroom) with @sara_arjona & @ankit_frenz! Which one will you pick – don’t delay they’re starting soon! #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/6zHz7vqeBa
— MoodleMoot India (@MoodleMootIndia) December 18, 2017
At the same time, our Moodle developers were treated to a dev jam session by our very own Moodle HQ devs, Sara Arjona and Ankit Agarwal.
Thank you @sara_arjona and @ankit_frenz for the lovely devjam #MootIN17 it was extremely useful looking forward to working with mdk much more
— Farhan Karmali (@farhan6318) December 18, 2017
@tom_murdock #mootin17…great set of questions..happy to be clearly at D…social reconstruction, social justice, social constructivism, transformational learning and affective outcomes
— Michelle (@tamarindtree2) December 18, 2017
Devjam @ #mootin17 pic.twitter.com/vKjslTbFms
— ?Martin Dougiamas (@moodler) December 18, 2017
The first day of #MootIN17 was closed by a presentation by our Education Advisor, Solange Lalonde, who showed us how to plan for success in a Moodle Course Design.
After a full day of learning…what else awaited on Day 2?
Day 2: learning followed by a Moodle Party
Day 2 of MoodleMoot India 2017 continued with the same buzz and excitement as the first day of the conference (and some singing).
Second day has started with @moodler singing! Could this be better? Let’s go! #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/XnI92W6rfd
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 19, 2017
First up on stage was our own Solange Lalonde taking the stage with a keynote on using inter-generational knowledge, innovation and transformational knowledge to improve our world.
What happens when u begin to learn more than u teach asks @solangelalonde, day 2 keynote address #MootIN17
— Michelle (@tamarindtree2) December 19, 2017
Solange and her smile are showing us lot of interesting concepts that can help to improve the world such as sharing inter-generational knowledge, encouraging innovation or supporting transformational knowledge ??? #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/agkaeRQQKd
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 19, 2017
Following on from Solange’s presentation, we were treated to even more inspiring presentations, first by our Moodlers in India:
- Creating Interactive Videos in Moodle Courses presented by Dr. Indira Koneru (Icfai Business School)
- Moodle Certified Course Creator presented by Dr. Ela Goyal
- Creating a chatbot in Moodle presented by Mr. Farhan Kamali
- Enhancing quality of learning services for distant, international and visually impaired learners by Dr Ambuja Salgaonkar (University of Mumbai)
- One School One Server: Imagining Open, Relevent and Decentralised LMS for every student presented by Hemant Babu (Nomad)
- Can Online Learning Transform Cancer Training in India? – a call for action presented by Dr. Indranil Mallick (Tata Medical Center)
- Challenges and Opportunities in Moodle adoption in Engineering Education presented by Prof. Abhijit A.M. (College of Engineering Pune)
- Moodle Tweaks presented by Mr. Nayan Velde (NIIT)
@NomadIndia begins #MootIN17 ..talk on one server one school pic.twitter.com/Cyao1sG70Z
— Michelle (@tamarindtree2) December 19, 2017
Prof. Abhijit explains why he is The Moodle guy #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/9n9yAlOJfI
— Ankit kumar agarwal (@ankit_frenz) December 19, 2017
Hemant Babu has explained us a really nice and interesting project: One school One server, based on raspberry and Moodle. They are looking for people who can help them from the advocacy point of view. So please, contact them if you feel you can help them #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/wfz4sDuM6P
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 19, 2017
Chatbot in Moodle! @farhan6318 #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/cXv3K6g1Q4
— Frances Le Page (@Frankiillouise) December 19, 2017
So amazing how Moodle can be used for Cancer training. Dr. Indranil Mallick from Tata Medical Center has explained us how important is not only to know about it, but how to share the knowledge with other doctors! #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/gjifD3BAfL
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 19, 2017
Then our own Moodle HQ staff got on stage to talk all things Moodle 3.4 and Moodle Mobile, before our chief Moodler took the question to the audience: “what new features would you like to see in Moodle?”
@ankit_frenz has explained us all the news related to 3.4 Moodle ???? #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/3LrwEashDK
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 19, 2017
Here is the link where you can check the final features wish list with the winners: https://t.co/xvj8KZu8Pj Really nice, interesting and funny session with @moodler. Thanks everybody for participating! #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/MJB9mDZYMZ
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 19, 2017
Following on from our sponsors sessions with our Moodle Partners, Vidya Mantra, eAbyass, and Ballistic Learning, we rounded off the second and final day of the Moot with a Dr Moodle session where attendees asked our Moodle HQ team their burning questions.
Thank you very much @vidyamantra for showing me your Congrea software, which can be integrated with Moodle (https://t.co/zwKGUztGdy). And thanks also to Angelo for the interesting chat! #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/Wer9KMKtEc
— Sara Arjona Téllez (@sara_arjona) December 19, 2017
Ask Dr. Moodle! #mootin17 pic.twitter.com/PgTBzi8gIB
— Frances Le Page (@Frankiillouise) December 19, 2017
Thoughts on the Moots from our audience? We will let the Tweets do the talking:
I do hope the moodle practitioners here see the potential link of the open source moodle to building justice and equity in education in India…Where millions of children are denied quality education. Thank u for that @moodler #mootin17
— Michelle (@tamarindtree2) December 18, 2017
Finally my laptop looks complete thanks #Moodle for the amazing stickers #MootIN17 pic.twitter.com/f71WnKvfqw
— Farhan Karmali (@farhan6318) December 20, 2017
#MootIN17 my biggest take-away from the sessions – moodlers are not programmers but a dedicated community.
— Shaiju Thomas (@shaijugt) December 20, 2017
A Moodle Party
We thought this section needs to have its own space!
What does a Moodle Party in India look like – well there’s food, drinks, dancing, music and more dancing. Straight out of a movie!
Here’s a video that describes it all:
Crazy party at #MootIN17 thank you #Moodle for organizing such a wonderful event for us pic.twitter.com/6GJ4ilCRsh
— Farhan Karmali (@farhan6318) December 19, 2017
Next: see you for MoodleMoot India 2018!
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See you all soon for another year of Moots!
