Education

  • Got skills? Five abilities every online facilitator should develop

    When facilitating courses in Moodle™/Joule you will need to exercise new teaching methodologies and refine some of your existent skills in order to maximize the learning experience of your participants.

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  • Three quick ways to spruce up your Moodle™ courses

    How long has it been since you updated your courses? Are they still the first version of the course? Or were they created while you were learning Moodle™? These three steps will assist you to take your courses to the next stage.

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  • Best practices: Tips for improving your online courses in 2013

    As the new year begins it’s a great time to set new goals for improving our elearning courses. Are your courses lacking luster engagement interactivity or collaboration? How can you take your online courses to the next level? In today’s post I’m going to suggest some ideas for improving your courses in Moodle™ and Joule.

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  • 5 Techniques for Integrating Moodle Tools Into Class Discussions

    Discover how integrating Moodle™ tools into the learning experience can be used to encourage active student involvement.

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  • Best Practices: Using Ratings to Grade Moodle™ Forums

    Discover how ratings in Moodle™ Forums help instructors evaluate student participation in eLearning courses

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  • Best practices: Choosing the enrollment method that's right for you!

    Sometimes as course designers we put all our efforts into building stellar content and fail to think about how students are going to take advantage of the course.

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  • Best practices: Creating calculated questions for Math and Science courses

    Last week Rebecca DeSantis provided tips for creating Quiz questions in Moodle™. Today I am going to talk about Quiz but will focus on calculated questions and the best practices for using them in your math and science courses.

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  • Best practices: Rule #1 of course design? Don't panic

    Over the years I have learned a thing or two about designing online courses. The first is as Douglas Adams articulated so well don't panic.

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  • Best practices: Using database and Wiki to leverage Science courses

    As a teacher I promoted high–level thinking by placing students in situations where they needed to solve problems within the context of projects research investigations laboratory experimentation etc.

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