Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques
Developing an Effective Online Course
What will we accomplish with this book
Instructional principles and activities
How does learning take place in an online course?
Selecting and organizing the material
Guiding and motivating students
Monitoring student participation in a forum
Interaction involves collaboration
Assessment with quizzes and distributed practice
Use quizzes for frequent self-assessment
Making a quiz—a learning tool
Reinforce expertise with timed quizzes
Host a proctored, timed test from a secure location
Selecting and sequencing content for lessons
Getting started: A simple example
Controlling the flow through a lesson
Use a lesson to create a deck of flash cards
Use an ungraded lesson to step through instructions
Use a wiki to achieve learning objectives
Helping students learn: Schema building
Adding memory aids to glossary entries
Student-created class directory
Student-created test questions
Building the course design document
Moving blocks to the main course area
Step-by-step example: Creating the workshop
Encouraging creativity: A sample assignment
Our hometowns: A collective conversation