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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

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to use a wiki for relating material to a big idea, one-on-one discussion, and guided note-taking. The section on big idea wikis compared Moodle's Wiki module to its Assignment, Blog, Forum, and Journal modules. You may have noticed that in Moodle, these modules are missing some elements that you would expect, but include some elements that surprised you. This is because each of Module's capabilities and limitations are chosen so that they support online learning and fit into Moodle's environment. For example, Moodle blogs do not allow readers to comment. This is because the developers and community are still discussing whether blog comments will pull valuable discussion out of a course and into a student's blog (recall that a blog belongs to a user, not to a course). To find out more about the rationale behind decisions like this, and to compare capabilities of the various module's, read the www.moodle.org forums.

The ability to create individual student...