Transforming OUC's Moodle System for 3.7M Students

1. Enhancing Moodle at OUC to meet the needs of 3.7 million students Wei Xiong, Open University of China(OUC)

2. OUTLINE • A brief introduction of OUC • Ten years of Moodle in OUC • OUC Moodle in numbers • Enhancing Moodle in OUC • Promoting Moodle in OUC • Best practice & pitfalls

3. A brief introduction of OUC • Former systemof radio & tvuniversities • HQ in Beijing • 44 provincialbranches • 1000+ city level branches • 3000+ county level branches • 3.7 millionregisteredstudentscurrently

4. A brief introduction of OUC(cont.) designing and producing courses and assessment, overseeing presentations delivering courses: tailoring,supplement courses, overseeing presentations face-to-face tutorial, learning support learning support: reminding, answering questions

5. 10 years of Moodle in OUC • Snice 2010

6. Freetrialisnotfree(2010–11) Trialuse, 2010 300students Review & 2ndround, 2011

7. 符合学科 临场感 奖惩机制 进度管理 组内活动

10. Prof. Jiang’sachievement basedonmoodletrialuse

11. Publiclaunchisnotthatpublic(2012–13) LMSalternativesanalysis, 2012 Customizationandtestrun 2013 1000+students

12. Authentication Provider (e.g. LDAP) Useridentities Document repository (e.g. Alfresco) Student information system Content Enrollments Moodle Grades Saved assets Compilations for assessment Data eportfolio (e.g. Mahara) Reportiog Analytics tool

13. Clouddeploymentnowisnativecloud (2014–16) New deployment, 2014 100,000+students Optimization, 2015 500,000+students Nativecloud deployment, 2016 1m+students

14. Redesignismorethandesign(2017–19) New Design, 2017 2,000,000+studentsinmoodle Learning Analysis, 2018 13 reports for learning behavior On the road, 2019 advanced learning analysis

15. OUC Moodle course screenshots

16. Before

17. New Challenges

19. New Challenges

21. After

26. OUC Moodle in numbers

27. DailyActiveUserCount(2019.5.22–6.21)

28. DailyPeakConcurrent User Count（in5min） (2019.5.22-6.21)

29. DailyPageViewCount(2019.5.22–6.21)

30. DailyNetworkDataUsage(inTB) (2019.5.22-6.21)

31. Enhancing moodle in OUC

32. Deployment & Optimization Issues/Challenges: OUC has over 3 millionstudents OUC isafour-leveledsystemandbranches in same level havetheirownconcerns Over 680,000students in certaincourses

33. Deployment & Optimization(Cont.) Our practices: Deployment: onemoodleinstanceforeachprovincial branch, master-slavereplicationdatabasecluster Optimization: turningoffunfrequentlyusedmodules, shardingand SQL tunning in database Enhancement:courselayoutstandardization, coursethemeredesign

34. Promoting moodle in OUC

35. Training Issues/Challenges: OUC has over 100,000 teachers/tutors OUC isafour-leveledsystemand there are tutors in each level Tech/supportstuffasloneedtraining

36. Training(cont.) Our practices: Rolespecificaltraining: providespecialtrainings fordifferentrolesof tutor, andtech/supportstuff On-sitetraining: sendofftechstufftobranches tosolvetheirproblemson-site Secondhandtraining: givetrainigtosome tutor, andhelpthemtotraintheircolleagues

37. Powerofexamplematters Our practices: Learningbehaviorreporting: provideT+1learning statisticsforeachbranch T+1 Realtimestatisticsreleasing: publishrealtime Learning statisticsoftop20branches

38. Best practice & pitfalls

39. Best practices Effectivesponsorship Cloudisyourfriend You are not alone . Do yourownwork

40. Pitfalls Lackofstandardization Lackoftraining Averagelookandfeel Not aone-for-allsolution

41. Any Question ???

42. Thank you very much indeed