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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

Overview of this book

Moodle is the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need.This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you'll learn to get the best from Moodle.This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you'll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle's unique features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Individual student wikis


We usually think of a wiki as a group activity. However, Moodle enables you to create an individual wiki for each student enrolled in your course. Every student gets his/her own wiki, which only you and the student can edit. Like any other activity, you can choose whether to allow other students and groups to see each other's wikis.

This doesn't mean that you must create each student's wiki one at a time. Instead, you could create a wiki as you normally would, and designate it as a "Student Wiki". The first time that any student accesses the wiki, Moodle creates that student's personal wiki.

Individual student wikis can be used for several teaching strategies. In this section, we'll explore two of them—one-on-one instruction and guided note taking.

In earlier chapters, we discussed the process by which individuals learn in a group setting. One way is through social learning. Keep in mind that social learning can take place with several people, or it can work with...