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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

Assessment with quizzes and distributed practice


Once you have determined the ideal instructional strategy for your course that will involve a certain number of assessments, you can start the process of building them in Moodle. For learning outcomes that involve identification, definition, and explanation of concepts and key terms, a quiz is often a very effective assessment tool. Fortunately, Moodle makes it convenient to create a quiz that ties directly to the Gradebook. It also allows you to put in time constraints and to allow students to retake and repeat the quiz for practice and mastery learning. One useful technique for students in the online environment is the concept of distributed practice.

Distributed practice is when a student practices a skill or knowledge during many sessions that are short in length and distributed over time. For example, if you're teaching a language course, you might practice every day for one week on a list of vocabulary words. That would be distributed...