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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

Chapter 8. The Choice Activity

Moodle's core philosophy involves the idea of active student engagement and participation. Forums allow students and instructors to interact with each other. Moodle's other activities foster other types of interactivity, and they enable students to vote on items, share opinions, and respond to polls. Instructors can capture the learners' interest to gauge progress, obtain feedback from learners, and facilitate communication within the group. Perhaps the most important thing about Moodle is that it has an activity that helps you make sure that your learners are on track to achieve the desired course outcomes, and that they are meeting individual learning objectives.

Polls, surveys, questionnaires, opinions, and "comprehension checks" can motivate students, make them feel involved and a part of a supportive and encouraging learning community. While you may not initially think that polls and other interactive surveys could be a part of an online class as you start...