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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
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Chapter 6.  Wiki Solutions

A wiki can be one of the most flexible collaborative tools one has in the e-learning toolkit. While you may think of a wiki as a place to jointly contribute information in collaborative encyclopedia-like articles (as in the case of Wikipedia), you'll find that in Moodle, a wiki opens up a wide range of collaborative possibilities, that allow people to learn from each other and boost motivation at the same time. You can even use a wiki for group projects and presentations. In addition, a wiki can be used to develop customized, individualized learning modules to employ what is often referred to as differential learning. With individual wikis, you can differentiate the learning experience for your students. In this chapter, you will learn how to create group wikis for group and team collaborations, as well as how to develop individualized learning spaces with individual wikis. One of the benefits of individualized learning in wikis is that, if your students need...