To be? (A Moodle course) or not to be? (A Moodle course) That is…
Choices...a design question.
…a design question discussed at the March 5th FLN meeting which continually comes up from teachers in Moodle training.
“What format should my Moodle course be?”
The answer is it depends, what teaching need do you want to use your Moodle course for?
For flexibility Moodle courses should not be locked into any particular format so the SWSI ITEL sat down and examined the pros and cons of the formats we advocate to teachers namely:
- One Moodle Course = Individual UOC
- Moodle Course = Whole TAFE Course i.e.. contains all UOC’s in one place (Cert 1, 2, 3, 4 AQF etc)
- One Moodle Course = Focused Content (i.e Class)
- Moodle Course = Network Hub, an Emergent (Dominant?) trend.
At the moment we sit in two camps working within the limitations of Moodle 1.9.7 and the promises of new Moodle 2.0 functionality to fix all those bug-bears, the pro and cons .ppt covers these variables and some design solutions.
View: Moodle Course Format Pro and Cons .ppt (This is a Collaborative Powerpoint, contributions welcome).
Long story short SWSI has different approaches to strike a balance between flexibility and maintenance of learning design and quality control in Moodle 1.9.7 administration, I’ve added these to the FLN wiki for feedback, input is welcome.
View: Moodle 1.9.7 master course administration and learning design cycle wiki page.
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As a point of interest…..and highlighting an external influence which will be available during 2010……(SAM OLS)
NCTAFE IT Faculty is trialling SAM OLS atm…..SAM OLS integrates well with Moodle, provided each UOC is set up as a “course”! Therefore, any individual teacher who has fully online students, and is planning on using SAM OLS (which feeds well into our corporate systems eg CLAMS), will need to set up their Moodle courses as one UOC per “Moodle course”.
cheers Arabella
Steven - interesting ideas and a granularity problem that is not new - the same questions arise when you ask “how big is a learning object?” Would like to see the PPT but unwilling to create a Windows Live account - anywhere else I can see it? Rory
http://tinyurl.com/gordianknotlo
Yes how big is a learning object? You can view the ppt withput any pesky account creation.
Some great points Steven, the approach needs to be explored and these ideas built upon. I am looking forward to the challenge.