Mar 13, 2009 12:00 PM EDTMoodlerooms Providing Moodle Solution to Project KNOTtT
Project KNOTtT Serving as Beta Tester of Moodlerooms' Google Integration
Baltimore, Md. – Project KNOTtT, a five-year federally funded Transition-to-Teaching partnership of higher education institutions, nonprofits, for-profits, partners and school districts in Kansas, Nevada, Ohio and Texas, has enlisted the help of Moodlerooms to implement a single online education solution to power its project. ...
Baltimore, Md. – Project KNOTtT, a five-year federally funded Transition-to-Teaching partnership of higher education institutions, nonprofits, for-profits, partners and school districts in Kansas, Nevada, Ohio and Texas, has enlisted the help of Moodlerooms to implement a single online education solution to power its project.
Project KNOTtT, which is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, has taken on the challenge of retaining teachers in high-need, hard-to-staff school districts and addressing the national issue of teacher quality by supporting the recruitment, selection, training, coaching and mentoring of 545 new teachers.
To do this, Project KNOTtT had three main challenges: develop and sustain an online learning community that met its specific needs; implement and nurture the KNOTtT online learning community to enable high quality e-coaching to enhance a new teacher's knowledge; and develop, implement and assess quality indicators for non-traditional teacher preparation programs.
“Being able to help a program that trains new teachers thrills us,” says Martin Knott, CEO of Moodlerooms. “Making education better is what we're all about, and supporting a project that makes teachers better so they can in turn educate students better is the ultimate example of our own personal mission succeeding.”
To help Project KNOTtT meet its goals, Moodlerooms, an organization that combines tools, expertise, a proven process, and a partner network to create an online learning solution wrapped around the most globally used open-source platform Moodle, provided an optimized Moodle platform and the necessary support to host an effective online learning community. In addition to the powerful Moodle system, which has an expansive feature set that enables the high-quality training and assessment that Project KNOTtT had hoped for, the program also had the opportunity to pilot Moodlerooms' integration of Google Apps Education Edition™ with Moodle.
“Moodlerooms has done an extraordinary job integrating third-party tools, ” exclaims Brad Henry, a graduate assistant who serves as the systems architect and engineer. “Overall, the integration of tools has saved the project money by simplifying processes. The integration of Moodle with Google has saved countless hours of support with a single sign-on and has simplified the process of creating the user one time instead of two.”
About Moodlerooms (www.moodlerooms.com):
Moodlerooms provides essential help and expertise in implementation, training, support and customization to make it possible for schools and organizations of all sizes to easily and efficiently facilitate a successful online learning experience.
About Moodle (www.moodle.org):
"Moodle" is both an acronym (Modular Object Oriented Development Learning Environment) and a verb (creatively meander through the various activities of a course; tinker towards insight and creativity). Moodle is a global movement, used in over 199 countries and translated into 78 languages, with a community of thousands of educators and developers working together to continually improve Moodle and online learning, as well as promote pedagogically-sound education tools.
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