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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques: Creative ways to build powerful and effective online courses with Moodle 3.0 , Third Edition

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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques

Chapter 2.  Instructional Material

Deciding what you'll put in your course can be one of the most rewarding aspects of course development. Because Moodle has so many options, you'll enjoy flexibility and also ease of use. With Moodle, you'll be able to incorporate a wide range of instructional materials and applications, all of which can help you expand the ways in which you can engage your students and encourage them to interact with each other. You'll be able to include videos, audio files, presentations, and animations in addition to documents and graphics.

Another benefit of using Moodle is the simplicity of a forum-based structure that allows you to keep your ultimate goals in mind and to clearly match the materials with your outcomes. Once you've selected your instructional materials, Moodle makes it very easy for you to get started and create a structure that flows nicely from topic to topic and facilitates the teaching and the learning process...

Selecting and organizing the material

If you're like most instructors, you love your subject and the idea of sharing information gives you great satisfaction. However, you have probably noticed that it's easy to overload your students or to give them materials in a way that tends to confuse them. How can you avoid overloading and confusing your students?

One of the most effective ways to do so is to make sure that you base your selections of instructional materials on course outcomes and on the learning objectives for each unit. Keep in mind what you'd like your students to be able to do after they complete the course. What is the basic, enduring knowledge they will take with them after the course is over? What kind of fundamental change do you want to occur in terms of the students' abilities? What kind of new skills will they be able to perform?

Once you answer these questions, you will have a list of learning outcomes. Keep them in mind as you select the instructional...

Guiding and motivating students

The best online courses create learning communities in which all learners have a sense that they are part of a friendly, supportive group. They eagerly post in the forums and they respond to each other quickly in a positive and productive way. They share their thoughts and impressions and you start to feel as though people are really getting to know each other. Learning is fun, even exhilarating. Some students can't wait to log on and participate.

Moodle 3.0 encourages productive interaction and collaboration and it becomes easy to share information that humanizes the learning space. For example, you can very easily use your smartphone to video a few introductory thoughts and then upload it directly to YouTube. You can then embed the post (which will include a small image/screen-capture for your video). If your videos are less than 2 minutes in length, you'll engage your students and also encourage them to share thoughts and ideas.

Creating the learning...

Keeping discussions on track

One of the biggest challenges in using forums for an online class is keeping discussions focused on the topic. This becomes even more difficult when you allow students to create new topics in a forum. It is important to relate each topic to the learning objectives. It can be useful to refer back to the specific learning objective and even map it to the assessments. Moodle offers two tools that you can use to help keep discussions on track: custom scales and splitting discussions.

Using a custom scale to rate relevance

Moodle enables you to use a scale to rate student's work. A scale offers you something other than a grade to give the student as feedback. Scales can be used to rate forum postings, assignment submissions, and glossary entries.

To create and apply a custom scale, follow these steps:

  1. Users with the roles AdministratorCourse creator, and Teacher can create custom scales.
  2. From the Administration block, click on Scales. This...

Monitoring student participation in a forum

One of the most important tasks that you face when managing a forum is determining which students are participating and which are not. Moodle gives you several ways to get this information.

Determining who has posted to a forum

Moodle's log files can tell you who has participated in an activity. We will look at how useful log files are in determining which students have posted to a forum.

In order to view the list of students who have posted to a forum, follow these steps:

  1. Enter the course for which you want the report.
  2. From the Administration block, select Reports.
  3. Under Choose which logs to see, select the settings for the following:
    • Course: This will be set to the course you are in, but you can choose a different course.
    • Participants: Leave this set to All participants so that you see the log for all students in the course.
    • Dates: To see who has ever posted to a forum, leave this set to All days.
    • Activity: In this case,...

Summary

Forums are one of Moodle's strongest features. You can use them as building blocks in which you organize the instructional material for the entire course.

We saw how a custom scale can be used to rate the relevance of postings; you can also use custom scales to have students rate any other aspect of a forum posting. For example, suppose your class was writing a play. You could have students contribute story ideas and character sketches to a forum. Then, the class could use a custom scale to vote on whether to include them in the play.

In classes that require student participation, Moodle's log files can quantify a student's participation in class discussion. Splitting a discussion can bring it back on track when it has been taken over by an unintended subject.

Whenever you need to involve students in a discussion, a Moodle forum offers a place for students and teachers to have a productive discussion.

In the next chapter, we will continue to work with the ways in which...

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Key benefits

  • Unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses
  • Put together effective online courses that motivate students from all backgrounds, generations, and learning styles
  • Find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses

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Moodle, the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS) has released several new features and enhancements in its latest 3.0 release. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses that run on a wide range of platforms including mobile and cloud. Beginning with developing an effective online course, you will write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy and list the kinds of instructional materials that will work given one's goal. You will gradually move on to setting up different types of forums for discussions and incorporating multi-media from cloud-base sources. You will then focus on developing effective timed tests, self-scoring quizzes while organizing the content, building different lessons, and incorporating assessments. Lastly, you will dive into more advanced topics such as creating interactive templates for a full course by focussing on creating each element and create workshops and portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration

Who is this book for?

If you want to unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses that really get students moving forward, then this book is for you. Experienced Moodlers who want to upgrade to Moodle 3.0 will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.

What you will learn

  • • Create a dynamic learning environment using different techniques
  • • Motivate your students to collaborate and demonstrate what they are learning and to create projects together
  • • Develop materials you can re-use in your future courses
  • • Create online workshops and galleries for your students to make presentations about what they have learned
  • • Engage your students in team work that helps them connect course content with their experiences and prior learning
  • • Develop high-quality courses that will last to create a personal inventory you can use and re-use

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Utilissimo! Obiettivo centrato! Cercavo una guida per creare corsi online con Moodle, che ho già installato nel mio server, e la cercavo senza capitoli di informatica. Lo trovo molto preciso, ricco di spunti ed esempi anche sulla strategia da applicare per rendere il corso più interattivo e efficace.
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Overall a good book to help Instructors, Faculty and new Instructional Technologist with limited to mid-level Moodle Knowledge.Pictures are represent what you expect to see in Moodle from a faculty member's perspective to allow you to build your course and get it up online ready to go.Chapter 1 - Developing an effective Online Course -- Provides some reasoning on why and how regarding Moodle and teaching. It could provide Instructional Designers a reference to provide faculty who are questioning the process and over all course design.The book covers a wide variety of areas to assist the course development process and more importantly how you will then use the course to teach effectively to students. It doesn't get to far into the weeds so if you need that level of fidelity then this isn't the best book for you (Experienced Moodle users moving from 2.x to 3.x version). Additionally, if you're experienced the beginning of each chapter on a bit of instructional design/pedagogy might put you off. I personally like the reminders as an Faculty Developer and Educational Technologist. Sometimes you just need to review the how and why to get better.I like how the author has gotten into Workshops and Portfolios, two the least used modules I've seen implemented by faculty at 3 decent sized institutions. She provides explanations on why and how to use these sections to get most every one started and follow ups with examples on how to use them to further the learner's engagementIt's a good starter book for Moodle course design and implementation. Don't count on reading cover to cover in a day or so. But each chapter allows the reader the ability to jump to an area you need assistance with.
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Susan does a superb job at kickstarting anyone into using Moodle effectively for teaching an learning. Rather than presenting inert, abstract information, Susan situates all Moodle functionality into a teaching/learning framework. Her writing is exceptional and goes into enough depth to fully grasp key concepts and to apply into your own student population and practice. This is an excellent resource for anyone in k12, higher ed, workplace training, and non-profits to begin using Moodle for teaching and learning fairly quickly. There are a lot of videos and resources available for free online, however the way she contextualizes Moodle tools and functionality within specific teaching examples is incredibly helpful. I have been using Moodle since version 1.2, and I have found this book to be a great resource. Great work Susan!
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