As many may have seen before, there are 10 steps of pedagogical usage of Moodle, which is outlined on Moodle Docs. It details the typical 10 step progression which looks like:
Putting up the handouts (Resources, SCORM)
Providing a passive Forum (unfacilitated)
Using Quizzes and Assignments (less management)
Using the Wiki, Glossary and Database tools (interactive content)
Facilitate discussions in Forums, asking questions, guiding
Combining activities into sequences, where results feed later activities
Introduce external activities and games (internet resources)
Using the Survey module to study and reflect on course activity
Using peer-review modules like Workshop, giving students more control over grading and even structuring the course in some ways
Conducting active research on oneself, sharing ideas in a community of peers
Nigel Robertson on 26 Oct 09"This paper describes the implementation of a quantitative cost effectiveness analyzer for Web-supported academic instruction that was developed in Tel Aviv University during a long term study. The paper presents the cost effectiveness analysis of Tel Aviv University campus. Cost and benefit of 3,453 courses were analyzed, exemplifying campus-wide analysis. These courses represent large-scale Web-supported academic instruction processes throughout the campus. The findings were described, referring to students, instructors and university from both the economical and educational perspectives. The cost effectiveness values resulting from the calculations were summarized in four "coins" (efficiency coins=$; quality coins; affective coins; and knowledge management coins) for each of the three actors (students, instructors and university). In order to examine the distribution of those values throughout the campus assessment scales were created on the basis of descriptive statistics. The described analyzer can be implemented in other institutions very easily and almost automatically. This enables us to quantify the costs and benefits of Web-supported instruction on both the single-course and the campus-wide levels. "
