Event Title
Using the “Lesson” Activity Module in Moodle as a Primary Building Block for Online Courses
Location
OCB 142
Start Date
2-8-2017 3:00 PM
End Date
2-8-2017 4:00 PM
Description
Before building out about 50 online courses at MidAmerica University, we surveyed the way existing courses (mostly on-ground, some online) had been constructed across the University’s Moodle platform. We discovered that Moodle was being used mainly as a file-delivery platform, with very little student engagement. Nearly all courses were constructed in a way where the “dreaded scroll of death” was manifested. For the development of the new online courses, we standardized on the Moodle Lesson activity module as a primary building block to accomplish the following:
- Provide meaningful organization to the learning materials, including guided learning pathways
- Encapsulate related learning materials into integrative learning modules
- Provide formative inline quizzing and learning checkpoints within the learning modules
- Eliminate the “scroll of death”
This presentation covers the basics of why the Lesson activity module is a powerful learning tool and how it works, using examples from our recently-completed course development project. We’ll also touch on a little of the as-yet-untapped further potential of the toolset.
Using the “Lesson” Activity Module in Moodle as a Primary Building Block for Online Courses
OCB 142
Before building out about 50 online courses at MidAmerica University, we surveyed the way existing courses (mostly on-ground, some online) had been constructed across the University’s Moodle platform. We discovered that Moodle was being used mainly as a file-delivery platform, with very little student engagement. Nearly all courses were constructed in a way where the “dreaded scroll of death” was manifested. For the development of the new online courses, we standardized on the Moodle Lesson activity module as a primary building block to accomplish the following:
- Provide meaningful organization to the learning materials, including guided learning pathways
- Encapsulate related learning materials into integrative learning modules
- Provide formative inline quizzing and learning checkpoints within the learning modules
- Eliminate the “scroll of death”
This presentation covers the basics of why the Lesson activity module is a powerful learning tool and how it works, using examples from our recently-completed course development project. We’ll also touch on a little of the as-yet-untapped further potential of the toolset.