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...
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TASK 1
Create a moodle test with 10 different questions.
Target group: your classmates
Field of study: Morphology OR Literature - preparing for a real test/exam
Enter your real name and surname into the name of the quiz.
Organisation:
Row 1 - insert your quiz to Topic 1
Row 2 - insert your quiz to Topic 2
etc.
You have 50 minutes! In the remaining ten minutes before the reset, try out the quizzes made by your colleagues. Who of them made a better quiz?
Explore the setting possibilities!
Go to
https://moodle.org/demo/
Choose Moodle Sandbox
register as teacher/sandbox
Use My First Course
Turn editing on (a button on the upper right)
Choose Add an activity or resource
in a Topic
Choose Quiz and read all info available.
Add the quiz and explore the settings.
Click on the new test name. Choose Edit test - then click on Add (on the right side!) - a new question - and explore the available formats.
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PROBLEM 1 - 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.
Find out more about Moodle at moodle.org. Explore the site. You might try this page first: https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Features
Example of a simple course
More links:
Moodle home
General features
Sandbox
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PROBLEM 2 - WHAT IS E-LEARNING?
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 2: 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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