Speakers
Description
Groups, consortia, and association around the world have been invited to self-organize and join a global Product Advisory Group and contribute to a community funding system. Marie Achour will summarize Moodle.org plans for this community replacement of the Moodle Users Association. In addition, Don Hinkelman will report on how a German-speaking PAG in Austria has been operating for over five years. This has inspired a Francophone PAG, a Spanish PAG, an Asian open university PAG, and a Moodle Association of Japan PAG. This MAJ Product Advisory Group will engage university institutions using Moodle through a Japanese language environment--especially universities who use Moodle and want to make a better LMS or build Japan-specific plugins for Moodle. Right now, over one hundred universities in Japan are using Moodle LMS and each is adapting Moodle independently on its own. By combining efforts with a community funding system & global PAG, we can prioritize our R&D money to make improvements that users in Japan need, want, and . Recently, Hiroyuki Harada and Don Hinkelman proposed the revival of a Japanese-language Moodle Association of Japan R&D Committee so that greater pariticipation institutional members is possible. The nickname of this R&D under the R&D Director could be called a "Japan PAG" with the following functions:
- That the institutional members of the Moodle Association of Japan
form a Product Advisory Group to list priorities for plugin
development and core changes that universities in Japan hold in
common.
- That the Moodle Association of Japan officers explore
granting the decisions of domestic and global R&D funding to this
group.
- That this group be comprised of one or more members from each
institution.
- That this Japanese PAG be listed as a benefit of
institutional membership That this group operate in Japanese language
in order to engage a wider range of university educators and
administrators.
- That this group elect an international liaison-global
member for the Community LMS PAG organized by Moodle.org
Following the presentation in English and Japanese, Hiroyuki Harada will lead a discussion and answer questions about the operation of a new Japan PAG.
| これは商業的な発表会なのか？/ Is this a commercial presentation? | 非商用 / Non-commercial |
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| 発表日の希望 / Preferred day | どちらの日でも結構です / Either day is fine |
| 発表の種類 / Presentation type | プレゼンテーション（４０分）/ Presentation (40 mins) |
