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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

Workshop basics


Workshops are complex. There are many components and most settings that you choose will affect or be affected by at least one or the other setting. Let's review some basic concepts before we talk about Workshop specifics.

Listing your learning objectives

It is easy to get a bit carried away and to start building a Workshop before you have a clear purpose in mind. While this is fine if you're simply putting together a framework or a design document, it is not very effective if you're going to implement your Workshop and use it to train others.

As you develop the activities, focus them on learning objectives. It is often useful to refer to Bloom's taxonomy as you develop the cognitive tasks you will incorporate. Be sure to include different levels of complexity, from simple identification to higher-level tasks such as evaluation.

Planning your strategy

When you create a Moodle Workshop, you may enter several pages worth of information. Again, think of learning objectives. At the...