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Moodle glossary second version

"Can online discussion be structured to achieve a high level of effective student participation without an increase on staff workload? This resource considers structuring sustainable online discussion by applying Bill Pelz's (2004) principle to online discussion: "Get the students to do (most) of the work." "

Useful site with lots of Moodle support resources. This page -Online Strategies and Best Practices for instructors has some useful resources - video interviews under Core Competencies for Online Teaching Success are interesting.

Eye tracking research on how students view a Moodle course page. 7 recommendations for course design.

Interesting video on using the HTML block as a way of creating links to navigate through course topics - avoiding excessive scrolling.

The navigation links on the left hand side are nice but for a completely new (for a learner) technical issue I would rather include the icons. Also, in Moodle 1.9.6 "Book" as a resource type was allowing for reaching the same outcome without complications of inclusing HTML blocks.

Demo courses from Moodle.org with demo accounts.

Winner of Cool Courses competition

"An academic's perspective on the 'problem' of e-learning professional development."

3. Possible solutions to eLearning PD - Possible solutions to eLearning PD issues for academics.

1. The eLearning PD Environment - Environment map of providing e-learning professional development support for academics in Australian higher education.

Transforming Assessment is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellowship specifically looking at the use of e-assessment within online learning environments, particularly those using one or more Web 2.0 or virtual world technologies.

Sample chapter from the book "Moodle Teaching Techniques: Creative Ways to Use Moodle for Constructing Online Learning Solutions"

* 1 Definition of Pedagogy * 2 Moodle in three short paragraphs * 3 Social Constructionism as a Referent * 4 How Moodle tries to support a Social Constructionist view * 5 Finding a balance * 6 Progression * 7 Where Moodle can do better and what we're doing about it o 7.1 Repositories and Portfolios o 7.2 Community Hubs o 7.3 Better interaction between tools o 7.4 Metadata and outcome statements o 7.5 Role-playing and scenario simulations * 8 What else would you like to see? * 9 Interesting links

The five key principles about learning on which Moodle has been and will continue to be developed.