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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle, the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS) has released several new features and enhancements in its latest 3.0 release. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses that run on a wide range of platforms including mobile and cloud. Beginning with developing an effective online course, you will write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy and list the kinds of instructional materials that will work given one's goal. You will gradually move on to setting up different types of forums for discussions and incorporating multi-media from cloud-base sources. You will then focus on developing effective timed tests, self-scoring quizzes while organizing the content, building different lessons, and incorporating assessments. Lastly, you will dive into more advanced topics such as creating interactive templates for a full course by focussing on creating each element and create workshops and portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
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Preface

Chapter 10. Workshop Solution

People learn from each other. When people react to each other's ideas, they start to relate knowledge to the course concepts, prior knowledge, and the world at large. They are often surprised to find that they remember the items and elements they have discussed with each other long after the course is over.

As we have seen in previous chapters, one of Moodle's strengths is that it is very flexible and it encourages you to develop courses that are highly interactive. Moodle's object-oriented approach lets you develop individual components, which you can put into different applications. At the same time, the tools and activities within Moodle encourage peer interaction.

One of the most effective approaches is to put together a Moodle Workshop. It is an activity that focuses on interaction, collaboration, and application of the knowledge learned. The Workshop allows:

  • Application of knowledge by creating a project

  • Collaboration with peers to amend or revise the project...