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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success. This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform’s new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You’ll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0’s new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world. By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting started
5
Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
14
Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators

Chapter 9: Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries

Collaboration can be a cornerstone of social constructivism and a place where students truly learn from each other. They can share their insights, set goals and targets, and bring prior learning to their collaborations. In addition, collaborations allow students to develop a body of knowledge or a project plan that can be implemented in the real world.

One strategy for collaboration is to engage students in activities that require each person to contribute to the final product. Two popular activities are informative wikis and topic-based glossaries. While wiki and glossary activities can be completed individually, they are perfect vehicles for collaboration. The key is to examine the learning objectives and determine how best to implement them. In this chapter, we'll discuss various strategies for getting your students engaged in collaborations and excited about learning from each other.

This chapter teaches you how to...