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Moodle for Mobile Learning

Moodle for Mobile Learning

By : Mark Aberdour
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Moodle for Mobile Learning

Moodle for Mobile Learning

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By: Mark Aberdour

Overview of this book

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and offer many new possibilities for learning. Moodle, when combined with a mobile device, opens up a new world of possibilities to teachers, instructors, and training professionals to develop their courses. The learning experience can be hugely improved by playing to the strengths of mobile devices, and Moodle for Mobile Learning helps you do just that."Moodle for Mobile Learning" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with ideas and step-by-step exercises that will help you leverage the features of mobile devices in your Moodle course designs. It also aims at providing you with hands-on knowledge in creating mlearning courses so that you can create your own effective mobile learning interactions.Looking at the underlying theory of mobile learning, "Moodle for Mobile Learning" aims to enable you to apply this to course design using Moodle. Organized into key sectors including schools, further and higher education, and workplace learning, this book will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of mobile technology in your Moodle course design.You will learn how to develop your mobile learning strategy and whether to use a mobile friendly Moodle theme or a Moodle mobile app to deliver your strategy. There are certain types of learning activities that are perfectly suited to mobile delivery. We look at delivering podcasts, engaging with social media, setting up photo, video and audio assignments, setting up eBook and App libraries, uploading audio assignment feedback, submitting reflective logs, using chat and messaging tools, using web conferencing and much more.Mobile devices already form the backbone of your learners' daily lives. If you want to use Moodle to bring those devices into the learning process, then this is the book for you.
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Exporting your work to a portfolio


Role: Student

Time: 5 minutes and above

Device: Desktop, Tablet, or Smartphone

When portfolios are enabled, forum posts and other exportable data have an Export to portfolio link or icon beside them. Items that may be exported to a portfolio include:

  • Assignment submissions—single and multiple file uploads

  • Chat sessions

  • Database activity entries

  • Entire database activities

  • Forum posts

  • Glossary entries

Any of these individual items can be exported in image, text, HTML, or LEAP2A format. These individual files can then be imported into an ePortfolio tool, such as Mahara, as a piece of evidence in their own right.

To export a forum post you will need to do the following tasks:

  1. Each activity type that is capable of being exported to a portfolio will have an Export to portfolio link, which the student can click on to initiate the export process.

  2. Once clicked you can select the export format, for example, HTML with attachments in this case, as we are exporting a forum...

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