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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

Using wikis to achieve learning objectives


In this section, we will discuss the importance of using the course outcomes and learning objectives to make decisions about course content, delivery mode, and instructional strategy. Course outcomes and unit-level learning objectives help arrange a course by giving it a theme. As a useful organizing tool, a learning objective must not only be specific but also broad enough to apply to a variety of topics. Learning objectives generally encompass the big ideas in the course. Keep in mind that an idea is not necessarily a big idea. A big idea must enable the student to organize information and find relationships among the information learned during a course. At its best, a big idea also helps the student to relate what is learned in the course to his/her own life. For example, a big idea in a course called Survey of American Literature could be described by this question: What does it mean to be an American? Then, the wiki could use examples from...