Teaching & Learning Online

with Moodle 2

Howard Ramsay

University of Strathclyde

• An online course in how to teach online

– How do you Teach (and Learn) Online?

– What difference does it make it’s in Moodle 2?

Teaching & Learning Online

• 6 Weeks

• 4 Hours a week

• 12 Participants per cohort

• 2 Tutors per cohort

• The Talon class – student role

• Their own class – teacher role

• 99.73% online

Teaching & Learning Online - TALON

• To experience online course activities from a student’s perspective

• To experience a wide range of Moodle 2 tools and activities

• To experience and develop methods to encourage online engagement and collaboration

• To develop understanding of and critically evaluate effective learning design for online courses and activities

Course Aims

What’s in it?

W Content & Activities

1 Introductions. Socialisation and Scene Setting, ‘rules of engagement’, setting up own class

2 Groups, forums and common tools, setting up your class

Live Session

3 Online Collaboration, quizzes

4 Assessing contribution and constructive engagement

Live Session

5 Presenting content. What’s the use of lectures?

6 Open Educational Resources, Putting it all together

Live Session

W Content & Activities Moodle Tools & Features

1 Introductions. Socialisation and Scene Setting, ‘rules of engagement’, setting up own class

Pages, Feedback, Glossary, Forum, Lesson, Database, blocks, Roles, Blogs

2 Groups, forums and common tools, setting up your class

Groups, forums and common tools, setting up your class

Live Session Adobe Connect

3 Online Collaboration, quizzes Quizzes, Forums, Blogs

4 Assessing contribution and constructive engagement

Forums, Peer Assessment, Blogs

Live Session Adobe Connect

5 Presenting content. What’s the use of lectures?

Lessons, Pages, Wikis, Blogs

6 Open Educational Resources, Putting it all together

All of the above…

Live Session Flesh & Blood

• “I’m only scratching the surface”

• And…

Where it came from

Big Scary Moodle 2 Grrrr

“to be honest I was a little bemused about

how an online course can be full...”

(Professor in Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences)

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Tutor Effort Including NoSSTFOM Effort

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SSTFOM Effort?

Salmon’s Five Stage Model

http://www.atimod.com/e-moderating/5stage.shtml

• Select a topic in your own class for a formative quiz exercise.

• Create a quiz with eight questions using the question types from

task 3.2.

– 2 x Multiple Choice Questions with one correct answer

– 2 x Multiple Choice Questions with multiple correct answers

– 2 x Essay Question

– 2 x Short Answer Question Matching Question

• Once you have your basic quiz working:

– Give it a time limit (you choose one appropriate for your quiz)

– Randomise the order in which the questions are presented

– Randomise the order in which multiple-choice question present their options

The Collaborative Task

• Peer Assessment Activity for Moodle 2

• Available from today under GPL

• http://bit.ly/StrathclydePA

StrathclydePA

StrathclydePA – Tutor View

• Upgrading in June 2012

• c24,000 students

• By September 2012, 70-100 participants

Slaying the Moodle 2 Monster?

• Student issues no different from 1.9 – generally.

• Staff still see Moodle as: – “Clunky”. “CLUNKY”. “CLUNKY” – overwhelmingly.

• File management surprises but doesn’t defeat – mostly.

• Access Restriction is valuable – probably.

What we’ve learned about Moodle 2.x

• There is huge demand for training like this

• Participants appreciate discombobulating

• Staff have greater confidence

• Staff appreciate student perspective

What we’ve learned about Teaching & Learning Online

http://bit.ly/StrathclydePA