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How would your Moodle page if you thought of it as acting as the students' organizer, or a space for frequent feedback and interleaved practice?

Multiple interesting discussions in this episode of the Digital Campus podcast. The first 2 discussions are particularly wiorthwhile. They open with a discussion of the ways U.S. government rules on retaining electronic records will impact the teaching of history, and follow with a discussion of the Open Syllabus Project, which analyzes millions of syllabi collected from the web.

Not every word of this article applies to Kenyon, and but there is a lot of good advice. We could generate a related set of suggestions by pondering what to do in case Moodle is up but there's an extended power outage in your classroom, office, and/or home.

This professor uses an online forum to give students who are uncomfortable speaking in class a space where they can contribute their thoughts. Students report that it's useful and the professor reports that all students who used the forum did eventually speak in class. (It occurs to me that Moodle's "anonymous" and group-based forum options might help mitigate some of the social pressures.)