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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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. Find out more about Moodle at moodle.org. Explore the site. You might try this page first: https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Features
2. Explore the site ; 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
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Distant learners should be given presentations of lectures consisting of full sentences and a clear explanation of the topic. There should be homework and other helpful materials for practising.
OdpovědětVymazatDaily students can be given presentations where the information are brief and sumed up because their detail explanaion was given during the lessons. Useful source would be for example a reader (books, poems in pdf forms which students must read) or videos concerning the topic taught in the lesson.
materials published on moodle should have more context in them but be specific, no bullet points for example, and be as understandable as possible. The teacher can point out what the students should focus on in the materials, add some questions to see if the students understand the materials etc
OdpovědětVymazatE-learning course should probably contain more valuable information to the students, because a in face to face lessons the teacher doesn't need to write down everything on the board, they can add it in as they speak towards their students.
OdpovědětVymazatAlso, the e-learning courses should contain some interactive excercises to make the students apply what they've learned from for example a powerpoint presentation that the teacher prepared.
Which is also pretty much similar to a worksheet that is usually given out to the students during class during face to face lessons.
-Jiří Vácha
E-learning - You can put more presentaion, excercises, articles here. But it should be clear what is important and what is not
OdpovědětVymazatFace to face lesson - focused on explaining main topics, practicing
e-learning should be more concerned about concrete problems and excercises maybe, with much more informations and materials.
OdpovědětVymazatIn face-to-face materials, there should be presentation used in class and maybe some link to suggested informations.
For distance students - put in all of the needed info. with an explanation, literature, and resources. And some questions that could appear in the test. Record the lesson (mp3 or video)
OdpovědětVymazatFor the other group - give some extra material or material they could miss if they were absent. Show them possible ways of testing. Communication about the learned (or not) material.
Takáčová
Material published on moodle should include some sort of teacher's commentary (probably in the form of notes), to supplement for their input during face-to-face lessons. Moodle material should also be more extensive, since it should be able to answer some possible questions from students, which would otherwise be answered by the teacher during the lesson.
OdpovědětVymazatThey should be identical. The face-to-face lesson can then be used to explain certain things which students didn't understand.
OdpovědětVymazatGärtner
The difference between e-learning course and face-to-face lessons must be minimal, everyone doing e-learning course must have equal chance of obtaining neccesary information just as the face to face lessons. Core information must be same.
OdpovědětVymazatI think for students of daily studies (face-to-face education) the material in moodle should support the information they get in the classes and maybe even show a deeper knowledge for those interested in the topic. On the other hand the distance students, who use moodle as the main source of information, should have materials discussing the topics in depth with all necessary explanations since they don't get enough of those during the couple of lessons they have.
OdpovědětVymazatHowever I feel it could become a bit time consuming for teachers to create multiple presentations for the same topics.
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OdpovědětVymazatFace-to-face → a thorough lecture, using presentations, activities, discussions
OdpovědětVymazatE-learning → summarization of the lecture, exercises for practicing newly gained knowledge, other material for students (articles, videos...)
E-learning courses definetly have more options in terms of types of materials available, but also should be completely clear in what the goal of the assignments is, the face-to-face lessons should contain more interactions between teacher and the students
OdpovědětVymazat- Scharf
Materials prepared for face-to-face lessons should be shorter and more depended on a teacher's input, comments etc...While e-learning course should be more detailed, with various links and included teacher's notes file.
OdpovědětVymazatSaidlová
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OdpovědětVymazatThere has to be much, much more information in the e-learning courses compared to a presentation that will be commented on. Many teachers count on the idea that they can point at a specific part and refer their students somewhere else or simply elaborate on it only vocally, forgetting this luxury is not possible if they don't lecture their students directly. This could be solved by providing their students with a link they can explore for more information or, if the teacher so desires, they can make a video of them commenting on the lecture.
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OdpovědětVymazatI want to die ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
OdpovědětVymazatOwn a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
VymazatWhat the?
VymazatProblem with e-learning is that we must know the audience, if it for a person,that attends the lecture it must be different than for a person,that doesn't. It must be structured in a way,that the person that has not the option to be there. So there should be some databese for the students,that students may use it.And if there is a difference between the lessons it should be minimalized. For example if you add something during the lecture,there should be some supportive material for distant students where they could get if not the same, very similair.
OdpovědětVymazatIn E-learning courses the materials should be more complex and understandable, because there is less possibility to discuss it. Also use more excercises and more online sources, such as videos, websites.
OdpovědětVymazatWhereas face-to-face courses do not have to be that complex, because they will be further discussed in the class.
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