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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Course Conversion
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Blended Learning with Moodle


Basically, blended learning is when you support your face-to-face teaching with online resources and activities. In this section, we will learn how we can achieve this using the skills and techniques we have learned so far.

Why Blended Learning?

In this book, we've been working together as I've been converting my Backyard Ballistics course over to Moodle. Yet another course I run with my students is a 2 week project on jet engines—culminating with us building working pulse jets and maintaining/developing a bench-size turbojet engine.

How might I want to support that project with Moodle? Well, by converting to Moodle, I can:

  • Manage all of my teaching resources in one place and have full control over how they are presented to students (Chapter 3)

  • Encourage discussion and debate using the online communication skills we experienced in Chapter 7.

The students on my Jet engine course don't know each other before the course starts. Moodle provides the ideal way to make...