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Deconstructing Moodle for better L earning Design Helen M. Lynch Senior E-learning Consultant

Deconstructing Moodle for better L earning Design Helen M. Lynch Senior E-learning Consultant Australia’s National VET E-learning Strategy Webinar, March 2012. What’s this all about?. Based on the work of Stern & Willits from the edited book Educating Educators with Social Media. .

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Deconstructing Moodle for better L earning Design Helen M. Lynch Senior E-learning Consultant

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  1. Deconstructing Moodle for better Learning Design Helen M. LynchSenior E-learning Consultant Australia’s National VET E-learning Strategy Webinar, March 2012

  2. What’s this all about? Based on the work of Stern & Willits from the edited book Educating Educators with Social Media. Central problem: “top down hierarchy” assumed by the typical LMS structure discourages a learning space which is egalitarian and organic where learners and educators are active and equal participants. Solution: An LMS based on social media

  3. Do we have an LMS based on social media yet ? No…but we can work in our existing LMS to try and achieve it… Open source LMS software in particular (Moodle and Sakai) have taken up social media features such as forums, blogs and wikis but they haven’t kept pace with the “modes of interaction” fostered by much more contemporary social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

  4. What subjects, what students, what levels of study would benefit from a social media based “egalitarian” course design? Subject area Level of study Students?

  5. Moodle’s key elements and their intended use: Sections/topics: sequenced to create learning pathways, space where content is presented and context provided – Moodle’s design encourages this approach Labels: these supply context- an instructional voice, a description of the content Content…these are resources and activities – documents videos, forum, assignments, quizz Blocks: Additional resources and activities or supports that exist independently of learning pathway – aggregates information…

  6. Instructional approaches/strategies • Direct instruction • Indirect instruction • Experiential learning • Independent study • Interactive instruction The nature of the activity that allows students to achieve learning objectives • Collaborative focus: jointly construct knowledge • Concept procedure development ; understand/ consolidilate learning of concepts and procedures • Problem based learning: solve real world problems • Project / case study: create product or artefact – learn by doing • Role play emphasis on subrogration – walk in my shoes Learning designs Creating a sequence of types of activities and interactions Based on Oliver, R. (1999). Exploring strategies for online teaching and learning. Distance Education, 20(2), 240-254.

  7. Trainee primary teaching students learning about visual arts and music The learning design implemented in this exemplar focuses on extending opportunities for peer interaction amongst students via the provision of a subject/unit web site that provides access to synchronous and asynchronous discussion tools.

  8. Introduction and orientation from the teacher – vod or podcast Orientation Subject outline Introduce yourself forum Getting started with assignment 1 1 Live chat or Instant messaging The Artist in me Join and access the NING Community to post artwork and share and encourage the process of critique Assignments RSS feed on Great Australian Artists Assignment 2 Assignment 3 Music task forum Music theory resources Integrated Arts curriculum resources

  9. Lets abandon this for a instructional strategy and learning design that is interactive and and expects equal participation between facilitators and learners? Can Moodle or any LMS help me out? Moodle has Social Format

  10. Have you seen examples of something similar in other learning Management Systems? Did they have the power to carry a learning design and instructional strategy based on interaction and equal participation?

  11. Leave these out as they can be done elsewhere outside the course interface

  12. Participants (see who is online) Label: to introduce course: independent study plus interaction as instructional strategies Teachers blog RSS Class wiggio community Calendar of events Class twitter feed Class Youtube channel Assessment items in HTML block

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