Methodology

In this paper we will use three methods to help us get more datas to figure out the problems and questions. All the three ways will be taken in these five faculties:Faculty of Business and Economics, Faculty of Social Science, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science.

1.In the observations, two lessons in each faculty will be observed. The lessons will be randomly chose. It is planed to observe how teacher and students use Moodle in the class. We will observe what role Moodle plays in class and in what degree, what are the functions of Moodle do they use and what is the proportion of each used function. Based on the data we will summarize how teacher and students rely on Moodle of specific course. 

2.The second method we are going to take is questionnaire which is mainly for  students in those five faculties. We are going to randomly choose 20 students each faculties to do the questionnaire. We want to know how Moodle used in class from students' perspective. After the data analysis of the questionnaire, we want to figure out what students' thought in using Moodle in learning and what opinions they would offer to teachers or the classes in using Moodle.

Sample questionnaire

• 1.What's your major and facility？
• 2.How many lessons you take each week？
• 3.How many lessons you take use Moodle in class each week？
• 4.In your experience, what's the mainly use of Moodle in the class?
• 5.How many functions of Moodle have been used in class you take？
•     A.Forum  B.Glossary  C.Assignment submission  D.Chat  E.Wiki F.others
• 6.Do you think using Moodle in that way can help you learn better?

3.The third method is teachers' interview:

(1)Firstly,we will choose 20 teachers in total from 5 faculties of HKU. We suppose that the subject that teacher teach maybe have a great influence in their implementation of moodle ,so we decide to choose 4 teachers from each faculty we mentioned above.And we also will choose the teacher in different level of moodle use,in detail,two of them in one faculty are use moodle much more frequently and in a high level .The others are at a new or start use of moodle.

(2)Secondly,we will interview each teacher face to face and mainly focus on the level of their use of moodle ,and the learning characters of his subject,the reason they choose or do not choose to take full use of moodle .

(3)In addition,during the interview, we will try to :

• Prepare more questions which related with each other.
• Listen carefully to his presentation, and try to ask some useful questions based on his answers. 
• To make a relaxed atmosphere and lead him answer the questions, try to get more examples form his presentation.
• To take note about his facial expression and his tone
• If he don’t know the answers of my question or he can’t understand my question, I will try to explain it with examples.

(4)after the interview,we will ask him whether there is anything they think should be added the interview .

(5)we will do a overall coding of the interview. 
(6)Questions for teachers' interview:

• 1.What subject do you teach?
• 2.How long do you use moodle for teaching and when do you start to use it?
• 3.There are different levels of functions of moodle,for example maybe the first level  is just upload some information, then more participation,then maybe some assignment or something else. And which level now will your schools’ teacher get?
• 4.Is there any training lesson for teachers in school?
• 5.And how many sessions are there in the training?
• 6.The training teachers or professor comes from others schools or?
• 7.what do you think of the situation that some teachers find it very interesting to use moodle when they are in the training course, but few of them will take into practice, it’s very difficult for them to really apply the moodle into the daily teaching?
• 8.And do you think what is the most important reason that teachers don't  use moodle? 
• 9.What’s your opinion about IT level or equipment will be the reasons as well?Can you share the situation in this two factors in your faculty?
• 10.What your suggestions to improve the moodle use in teaching and learning? 
• 11.What’s your opinion about the different attitude  of moodle use between different teachers?