E-learning materials reflect the content and form of a textbook, and add the necessary feedback which in a real class would be provided by the teacher.
E-learning can offer resources in any format, from text and images up to online videos and interactive test. Neverthless, all these can always be found somewhere... what remains REALLY important is not the material, but the supportive STRUCTURE of the course.
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When creating an e-learning course, we usually use one of the free platforms available; during the years, Moodle became probably the best known and most used platform. The platform enables the user to create a course in the same way we create textbooks or worksheets: adding information, resources, references, tasks, tests...
PROBLEM 1 - WHAT IS E-LEARNING?
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A quotation from the discussion forum:
The difference between online learning and classroom based computer generated material
francis charters
Neděle, 25. říjen 2015, 02.37
I am a newcomer to Moodle and I am confused.
I have been teaching, and using computer generated materials in the classroom for many years. Since looking at the Moodle sites of various colleges I have seen a lot of tutors putting exactly the same online as they used in the classroom. Is this common practice?
Surely a powerpoint, for example, that has me in front of it talking about it, eliciting discussion about it, verbally picking out specific parts of it, should be a largely different design to a powerpoint that is meant to be accessed by a student with no tutor input?
How much can the tutors be asked to produce/edit material so that the students are progressing online efficiently?
Any thoughts?
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TASK 1: What should be the difference between e-learning course based on Moodle, and the materials prepared for face-to-face lessons?
Please publish your ideas in the comments to this blog entry.
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PROBLEM 2 - THE SOFTWARE
When creating the material, we consider (apart form the learner, aims, teaching situation and other features of the real life) the FORM and CONTENT.
The FORM includes the logical organisation, navigation, graphics, icons, images...
The CONTENT includes the topic, the information we present, and the ways they are processed.
TASKS:
1. Go to https://moodle.org/login/signup.php?
Create your personal moodle account.
2. While the accout is being processed, find out more about Moodle at moodle.org. Explore the site. You might try this page first: https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Features
3. Log in at moodle.org. Explore the site again; read the discussion at https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=322107.
Then go to http://school.demo.moodle.net/ - Mount Orange School - and explore how Moodle works; view the courses from several different roles!
Example of a simple course
4. Use the Mount Orange site as sandbox.
Experiment with the courses, tests and various settings. READ the available comments!
https://moodlecloud.com/en/
5. What did you learn about Moodle?
What features surprise you?
What new aspects apear in e-learning, comapred to your experience and expectation?
Write your answers into the comments to this blog entry.
More links:
Moodle home
General features
Sandbox
PF UJEP
E-learning course on Moodle should be like a back-up to the one used in lesson, which means the notes should be simplified. The face-to-face material should include for example more pictures and have space for the speaker to explain it.
OdpovědětVymazatThe materials for the E-learning should be simpler to understand, as they are used for work of the individual with no presence of the teacher.
OdpovědětVymazatA face-to-face lesson should be more complicated, as the problem can be fully explained by the teacher, or the student can be nudged towards discovering the solution himself.
Moodle materials should add something to the face-to-face class. If we begin to talk about some topic in class, the moodle materials should contain additional information to the topic and also help students remember the important parts of the topic by including quizes.
OdpovědětVymazatThis one is mine.
VymazatThere is not a reason for them to be different.The only difference i would make, would be in the exercises the teacher puts in the moodle course.There should be a difference between them so students can practise at home. Simply put: Presentations or whatever the teachers uses should be the same in moodle except the exercises.The rest is on the students to attend classes and understand the subject.
OdpovědětVymazatLeon
VymazatThe material for face to face classes (e.g. powerpoint presentation) should be a brief overview of what the teacher is explaining, while the teacher is the main source of information and only uses the presentation to highlight his most important points. While the material online (e.g. on moodle) should be more a more detailed mix of the presentation and what the teacher talked about, so the students can study from said material. In conclusion -
OdpovědětVymazatClass material = overview / highlights;
online material = detailed study material
březina
I think course on Moodle should consist of some advanced materials for students who want to know more. There also could be short review of the lesson, simple notes, which should not be detailed, so it would force the students to take notes for themselves.
OdpovědětVymazatMoodle courses should probably have only general ideas about given topic, so there is still work to do by students themselves. Like finding additional information that is needed to fully understand the topic, because if you have face to face lectures, there is always room for discussion so the additional information usually comes right out, or the teacher can more deeply explain the topic, if there is some misunderstanding.
OdpovědětVymazatOR
Using Moodle courses for complementarity purposes. Deepening the ideas from face to face lectures, giving additional information or ideas to work with.
Hora
Materials prepared for e learning should be more detailed, because student has to understand it on his own, so he needs more description and examples.
OdpovědětVymazatMaterials for lessons can be more general, but teacher should explain everything more clearly + more interaction with students, to make them think and develop their own ideas.
Josef Jindra
In my opinion face-to-face lesson should be properly explained and more detailed with some interaction with students, maybe more practical than theoretical while the materials on e-learning (Moodle) should be more like a theoretical summary with few practical examples.
OdpovědětVymazatUrbanová
The face-face should be more focused on interactivity with students. Using pictures, enteresting topics or if is a topic boring should be done in interesting way.
OdpovědětVymazatE-learning should have more details and be understandable on it's own
Libotovský
E-learning course should help students during the face-to-face lesson. The materials for the E-learning can be the structure of the lessons, students should come preapare for the lessons because they can read the materials individually.
OdpovědětVymazatIf you are using moodle you study on your own. It is an individual study without the teacher. You have to find all the information but self study is not enough. If it is face to face the teacher helps you with learning. He or she is telling you and lecturing you so you do not need to do it on your own. I think that both of the methods are needed.
OdpovědětVymazatBhijová
Moodle activities should have clear instructions with which students know what they are supposed to do but also providing them with the freedom to go beyond the instructions and do what they consider. They may even improve the activity.
OdpovědětVymazatIn face-to-face lessons activities students can ask for the help of the teacher and the instructions can be clarified any time. In real class the teacher can also provide practical examples.
Laura