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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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About the Author
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Preface

Summary


The key to a Workshop is not what kind of work you will have the students submit, but your assessment strategy. An assessment strategy determines what the students assess, how they assess, whether they must agree on their assessments, whether their assessments must agree with yours, and how much of their grade depends upon completing assessments.

As you set up the Workshop, be sure to think about how you will tie everything back to learning objectives and how your assessments should be measurable. They should also indicate to the student where there may be gaps in skills or knowledge. In participating in the required tasks in the Workshop, students will learn from each other as they collaborate and then assess each other's work.

If the work that the student produces is the most important part, you may as well use a simple Assignment instead. It is the assessment strategy that makes a Workshop different from the other modules.