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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

Overview of this book

Moodle is the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need.This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you'll learn to get the best from Moodle.This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you'll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle's unique features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Use quizzes for frequent self-assessment


Self-assessment is the ability of a student to observe, analyze, and judge his/her performance based on criteria that you supply. At its best, self-assessment also means that the student can determine how to improve his/her performance. Supplying the students with quizzes that they can take themselves fulfills the first part of that goal. Using feedback during the quizzes helps fulfill the second. Self-assessments are typically not graded. The goal of a self-assessment is usually not to achieve a grade, but to practice for a graded activity.

Adding self-assessment to your course has several advantages for you and the students:

  • First, self-assessments are a chance for students to become more actively involved in their learning.

  • Second, students learn to identify their errors as they make the errors, assuming the self-assessment quiz provides immediate feedback. This feedback during self-assessment reduces the errors students make "when it counts",...