Chapter 15. Putting It All Together


Now that we've taken a look at all the tools available in Moodle, I want to take a step back and look at the big picture. Moodle has a lot of nifty capabilities, but they are only useful if they are applied in the service of effective course design.

If you are a professor in higher education, you are an expert in your field. You know more about your discipline than 99% of the rest of humanity. Universities do a great job helping people become domain experts and resarchers. They do a poor job of teaching those experts how to teach. The assumption is that teaching comes naturally, that since we've all been to school, we know how to teach. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. Creating effective learning environments requires training and careful preparation.

In this chapter, I hope to give you some ideas and background from which you can develop your courses. We'll spend a little while talking about learning environments in general, then we'll talk about how to apply everything you've learned so far to your courses. I'll provide some design patterns for different types of courses that research and experience have shown to be successful.



Using Moodle
Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System
ISBN: 059652918X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 113

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