Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition
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- Unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses
- Put together effective online courses that motivate students from all backgrounds, generations, and learning styles
- Find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses
If you want to unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses that really get students moving forward, then this book is for you. Experienced Moodlers who want to upgrade to Moodle 3.0 will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.
Susan Smith Nash
Susan Smith Nash has been involved in the design, development, and administration of online courses and programs since the early 1990s. Her current research interests include the use of learning objects, mobile learning, leadership in e-learning organizations, and energy and sustainability technology transfer. Her articles and columns have appeared in magazines and refereed journals. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1996, and in addition to e-learning, Nash has also been involved in international economic development training, interdisciplinary studies, international energy education (renewables and non-renewables), and sustainable business and career training. Her book, Leadership and the E-Learning Organization, was co-authored with George Henderson, and published by Charles Thomas and Sons. Her most recent books include Klub Dobrih Dejanj (Good Deeds Society/Sodobnost: Ljubljana,Slovenia) and E-Learner Survival Guide (Texture Press: NY). Her edublog, E-Learning Queen (www.elearningqueen.com) has received numerous awards and recognitions.
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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition - Susan Smith Nash
Table of Contents
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Developing an Effective Online Course
The Moodle advantage
What will we accomplish with this book
Some Moodle requisites
Standard modules
Instructional principles and activities
What are we trying to do in an online course?
How does learning take place in an online course?
How people learn
Categories, classifications, and schemata
Social learning
Emulatory learning
Communities of practice
Social practices
Experiential learning
Conditions of learning
Behaviorism
Course-building components in Moodle
Resources
Book
Link to a file or website
Activities
Assignment
Choice
Database
Forum
Glossary
Quizzes
Journal
Lessons
Wiki
Course Timetable
Instructional principles and activities mapped to Moodle features
Access for everyone
Summary
2. Instructional Material
Selecting and organizing the material
Matching the material to the learning objectives
Using Forums to present your material
Incorporating social media and cloud-based resources
Creating a separate group for each student
Enrolling students
Creating a group for each student
Guiding and motivating students
Creating the learning environment
Asking permission and setting a policy
Types of forums
Single simple discussion forum
Standard forum
Keeping discussions on track
Using a custom scale to rate relevance
Splitting discussions
Will splitting move replies you want to keep in place?
Monitoring student participation in a forum
Determining who has posted to a forum
What postings has a student made
Summary
3. Collaborative Activities
Interaction involves collaboration
Uses of Chat
Test preparation and online study groups
Creating study groups
Groups carried over to other activities
Key settings for study groups in Chat
Assigning review topics
Kinds of questions
Reviewing papers and other assignments
Creating a one-on-one chat
Workaround 1 – Using groups
Workaround 2 - Restricting access
Guest speakers
Including chats from previous classes
Copying a transcript
Foreign language practice
Preparing for foreign language chat
Compiling and reviewing chat transcripts
Copying chat transcripts
Assigning a chat transcript as an editing exercise
Tips for a successful chat
Basic chat etiquette
Prepare for a definite starting and ending time
Limit the number of participants
Prepare a greeting for latecomers
Focus
Insert HTML
Summary
4. Assessment
The purpose of assessment
Assessment and your learning objectives
Types of assessments
Keys to successful assessment
Taking the fear out of assessment
Assessment with quizzes and distributed practice
Advantages and limitations of distributed practice
Opening and closing quizzes at predetermined times
Indicating that a quiz is closed
Using quizzes for frequent self-assessment
Making a quiz - a learning tool
Questions must be specific
Adding feedback to quiz questions
Feedback for a multiple choice question
Feedback for a numeric question
Reinforcing expertise with timed quizzes
Assessment and motivation
Frequent self-assessment
Self-generating certificates upon successful completion of assessment activities
Setting up the Gradebook
Badges
Summary
5. Lesson Solutions
Selecting and sequencing content for Lessons
Create conditions for learning
Employ scaffolding
Use chunking to help build concepts
Get students involved early
Keep it lively
Keep focused
Use media strategically
Diagnostic and developmental/remedial content
Reward practice
Build confidence for final graded performance
Getting started - a simple example
Moodling through a course
The need for sequential activities
Lesson settings
General settings
Grade options
Flow control
Lesson formatting
Access control
Other Lesson settings
Controlling the flow through a Lesson
Use a Lesson to create a deck of flash cards
Keep it moving
Lesson settings that help create a flash card experience
Use an ungraded Lesson to generate materials and strategies for real-world applications
A workaround
Summary
6. Wiki Solutions
Using wikis to achieve learning objectives
Why a wiki?
Wiki versus forum
Wiki versus blog
An assignment
Let's agree to disagree
Individual student wikis
Creating individual wikis
Active reading strategies with individual student wikis
Creating a text file for the wiki's starting page
Creating multiple starting pages
Multiple text files create multiple starting pages
Creating links to other starting pages
Creating an individual student wiki in your course
Test the wiki as a student
Leveraging guided notes created by students
Suggested wiki etiquette
Summary
7. Glossary Solutions
Helping students learn - schema building
Moodle's glossary functions
Automatic linking to a glossary
Course versus site glossaries
Wiki versus site glossaries
Main versus secondary glossaries
Managing students' contributions to a glossary
Ratings and comments
Adding memory aids to glossary entries
Student-created class directory
Student-created test questions
Student-created extended definitions
Summary
8. The Choice Activity
Moodle's choice activity
A look at the choice activity
Students' point of view
Teachers' point of view
Number of choices
Limit
Publishing results
Privacy
Allowing students to change their minds
Student polls
Learning styles
Self-regulation
Choosing teams
Students' consent
Students' performance
Preview the final
Summary
9. Course Solutions
Building the course design document
Prioritizing and selecting based on learning objectives
Understanding your students, their technologies and their access
Overcoming course anxiety
Important announcements
Moving blocks to the main course area
The goal
Course blogs
Notes
General news and announcements - learning objectives
Using this workaround with other blocks
Section Links
Activities
The syllabus
Printer-friendly for letter and A4 sizes
Online calendar with event reminders
Encouraging course completion
Creating certificates
Creating Badges
Motivating interaction via webinars and web conferencing
Summary
10. Workshop Solution
Workshop overview and use
Workshops and collaborative solutions
Workshop basics
Listing your learning objectives
Planning your strategy
Grading peer assessment
Getting started - setting up the Workshop
Step-by-step example - submissions
Setting up a task
Assessing student peer assessment
Student grade - peer assessment and student work
What are the criteria for assessing the work?
What submissions will the student assess
Anonymous assessments
Classmate agreement on grades
Schedule for submitting the work and assessments
Summary
11. Portfolio/Gallery Solution
Learning objectives and outcomes
Advantages of collaborative activities
Project-based assessment
The best uses of project-based assessment
Learning objectives and projects
Collaboration and cooperation
Examples of portfolios and galleries
Multimedia presentations
Student presentations
Student image galleries
Student creative writing projects
Student research projects
Encouraging creativity – A sample Workshop
The creative writing e-portfolio – My Hometown
Instructions to students
Procedures for collaboration
Our hometowns – A collective conversation
Supportive environments and intellectual risk taking
Tips for a successful experience
Summary
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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
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About the Author
Susan Smith Nash has been designing and developing online courses and programs for more than 15 years for education, training, and personal development.
In addition to Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques, she is the author of a number of Moodle books and training videos, including Moodle Course Design Best Practices and Moodle for Training and Professional Development. She has also authored Video-Assisted Mobile Learning for Writing Courses.
I would like to thank my online students and a very special thanks and appreciation to Lic. Miguel Hermosillo and Dr. Jeff Kissinger, director of the Rollins College, Instructional Design Certificate Program.
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Preface
Welcome to Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques! I am delighted to have this opportunity to work with you and help you unlock new potential using the world's most popular online learning management system program, Moodle. It has been a favorite of many of the world's most distinguished and forward-looking online programs, and now that Moodle accommodates mobile learning, as well as social media, while maintaining its intuitive, easy-to-use and easy-to-manage interface, it is appealing to students who approach the course from a wide range of devices. In addition to its convenience and ease of implementation, Moodle's cloud-based interface, Moodle has developed a solution for small users.
Moodle Cloud (https://moodle.com/cloud/) offers small users the ability to use Moodle via Moodle Cloud for free. You have webspace and up to 50 users, along with 200 MB storage space provided for free. It is a great opportunity for instructors, students, and administrators to create an exemplary course, which satisfies users on many different levels.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Developing an Effective Online Course, covers how Moodle has kept up with best practices in online course development. Topics include the Moodle advantage, Moodle in a mobile world, instructional principles and activities, Bloom's taxonomy, and Universal Design. You will learn how to determine course objectives, write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy, and map out an assessment strategy.
Chapter 2, Instructional Material, talks about how to create effective instructional material and how to organize it. Topics include selecting and organizing instructional material, guiding and motivating students, and incorporating social media and cloud-based resources. You will learn how to select materials, organize them, set up a discussion, and incorporate video, audio, and images from cloud-based sources or social media.
Chapter 3, Collaborative Activities, deals with the different types of forums and how best to set them up and use them. Topics include a discussion of productive online interaction, types of interaction, tying collaborative activities to learning outcomes, common pitfalls, and chat. You will learn how to set up Forums for discussions, select the right kinds of forums, and set up forums for different purposes.
Chapter 4, Assessment, talks about how to create different types of assessments and to match them with learning outcomes. Topics include the purpose of assessment, as it relates to learning objectives, motivation, and the automatic generation of badges and certificates. You will learn how to develop assessments and an assessment strategy, and you will also learn how to created automatically generated certificates and badges.
Chapter 5, Lesson Solutions, covers developing and sequencing content for Lessons, and building Lessons step by step. Topics include building Lessons step-by-step, selecting the elements, and controlling the flow through a Lesson. Students will learn how to build a Lesson and to sequence it for ideal performance. They will also learn how to develop a Lesson and then how to control flow through it.
Chapter 6, Wiki Solutions, deals with how to create different types of wikis and how and why to use them. Topics include using a wiki to achieve learning objectives, and using social media and cloud resources. You will learn how to build different types of wikis and control student input.
Chapter 7, Glossary Solutions, talks about creating glossaries for activities, collaborative interaction, and assessments. Topics include helping students learn via schema building, glossaries and learning objectives, and the functions of the glossary. You will learn to build a glossary and to use it to create test questions, technical terms, and a class directory.
Chapter 8, The Choice Activity, deal with using the Choice activity to create polls and quizzes to engage students. Topics include polls, learning styles, using a quiz. You will learn how to create quizzes and polls.
Chapter 9, Course Solutions, covers creating a template for a full course. Topics include creating a course template and a course design document, and then prioritizing and selecting based on learning objectives. You will learn how to map out the steps to build a course from start to finish, create a syllabus, engagers, quizzes, assessment, and develop automatically generated certificates and badges.
Chapter 10, Workshop Solutions, talks about creating a Workshop to encourage collaborative development of material and to use peer review to learn from each other. Topics include Workshops and collaborative learning, creating the Workshop that allows peer assessment. You will learn how to build a Workshop and to create examples.
Chapter 11, Portfolio/Gallery Solutions, covers the design and development of portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration, with results displayed in a gallery in Moodle. Topics include the advantages of collaborative activities, the design of project-based assessment, the benefits of creative capstones, the analysis of an example (Our Hometowns
), and tips for success. You will learn how to build an effective portfolio assignment, create examples/sample portfolios, and build a gallery of examples.
What you need for this book
Make sure that you have Moodle 3.0 or later, and a good Internet connection.
Who this book is for
This book is intended for instructional designers, teachers, teaching assistants, Moodle administrators, program administrators, and instructional technologists who have an interest in highly effective, high-quality online courses, and in learning how to most effectively deploy a Moodle solution.
Conventions
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Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: You can name it Ancient Humanities.
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: Click Add an activity or resource and then Add a Forum.
Note
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Tip
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