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.

scroll down the long page to find best practice guidelines

Adapted from-and extending-the recommendations found in Chickering and Gamson's, Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991), here are some of the most commonly agreed upon best practices for course design and development. They can be applied to both traditional and online courses, however some are particularly crucial to online course development.

Playlist of 17 clips showing the main new and improved features in Moodle 2.

"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." "

Designing effective teaching and learning in La Trobe's Moodle LMS

Moodle Glossary (first version) comparing WebCT Term and Moodle Term

Moodle glossary second version

Designing Learning for an LMS

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.

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

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.