This presentation is about teaching online using Moodle 2, focusing on the new features that make it possible to engage students to a different level. We will look at how to add a dynamic layer of learning interaction on top of a rather static content driven learning management system.
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This presentation is about teaching online using Moodle 2, focusing on the new features that make it possible to engage students to a different level. We will look at how to add a dynamic layer of learning interaction on top of a rather static content driven learning management system.
First, let’s have a look at a 3 mins youtube video about student’s online learning experience.
As mentioned in the video, many online learning courses are just a dump of content and web links. Most people take a course like that hate it. It is boring, it doesn’t engage the person who is sitting there clicking through the screens with the content.
Another common type of online learning is what we called” nexter”, computer-based training. Where you hit next, next, next through and at the end, you take a little quiz and if you haven’t fallen into sleep before it’s over you get some sort of credit. This is also boring, and it flies in the face of all that we know about effective good learning. So what do we know about good learning?
Well, one of the things that we know is that it is inherently a social activity. So people learning about content as they interact with other people about that content- not just by reading or watching videos about it. It is through the social interactions that we learn about something. So when we are developing online learning, we will consider how to incorporate social interactions. According to a respected educational researcher named Michael Moore, there are three types of interactions that needed to exist in order to have an effective learning experience. Those interactions are: Learner and content interaction, learner and expert interaction, learner and learner interaction.
Here is a pie chart example of an online course with a large percentage of content-push out to the learner, with a small amount of learner/expert interaction, and a tiny sliver of learner/learner interaction. And so if you look it in that way, you see pretty quickly that we need to get some other types of interaction here in order to have it become meaningful.
So the question is, when we look at developing an fully online learning experience, how are you making sure that we are bringing in social interactions that bring students together and connect students to experts and not just push content out to them. Fortunately, with Moodle 2. 2 new feature, there are a lot of ways to do this. Apart from those Moodle native tools, such as Forum, comment, chat which we covered in session 3 already. And in this session, session 4, we are going to have a further look at some web 2 tools that will extend Moodle 2 to social interactions. E.g. YouTube, Google doc, Flickr , RSS, blog… there are a whole bunch of tools that make it really easy to connect learners.
So in terms of a fully online course in Moodle, these are several ways to extending Moodle to create a richer course environment to encourage social learning, and engage learners in a more personalized way. Web2 tools, Forum RSS feature. Google Docs. A HTML block is a standard block used to add text or images on a site or course page. The title bar can be left blank. The reason I included this block as a “best” is because of the possibilities and flexibility of this block. Even if you are not very familiar with HTML and/or CSS , you still can benefit a lot from this feature. There are a lot of potential possibilities with HTML block. This block can be used to insert text, links, images and any other multimedia. You can be creative and link to external, internal or anchor links. I think using the HTML block allows you to be creative and treat your Moodle course as a regular web site. If you are looking for a certain kind of block chances are you can somehow manipulate the HTML block to do what you want. I will show you a couple of examples later.
Here are some examples of web 2 tools that can be used in Moodle 2 to improve students engagement. 1. HTML Comment Box (HCB) is a website comments solution . As a widget, it can be pasted directly into any Moodle page. Student can leave comments anonymously, they can like the comment, they can flag the comment, they can subscribe RSS feed of recent comments. Tutor can choose to receive email notification whenever there is a comment posted by learner. Advantage: when the course gets rolled over to a new trimester, all comments will be wiped clean automatically in the new live course.
AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.
TitanPad is a tool allow students to work on same document simultaneously. Every student will get a different color.
a very easy way to create a poll, and show result instantly.
Google doc. presentation, form or excel spreadsheet can all be incorporated into learning material.
HTML block,as I mentioned before, there is a huge potential, One way we can use it is to show the countdown for the assessment or other major event.
Here are some more examples how we can use the html block. We can use html block to bring different types of social network into our Moodle 2 online courses: twitter/facebook feeds, youtube/vimeo channel, new paper article feeds, Blog feeds, etc. In this way, as a tutor, you can bring up-date teaching and learning material to your online course as needed.
However, a set of interactive tools doesn’t mean that there are effective interactions, you can still have a really effective online learning tools and still not have a very interactive environment- we know that from the classroom. You can have a classroom and have a really great learning experience, and you can have – in that same classroom a really awful learning experience. The classroom didn’t change. It is what is happening inside that space. That is interactive online teaching/ facilitating practice. So to make a fully online course interactive, there are two key elements, one is how we design it, the other is how we teach it. Ultimately, to make an effective learning experience happen to our student, it depends on our course tutors to teach and engage students online.
