Michelle Moore, Remote Learner @ Moodlemoot 2011 Michelle provided some invaluable tips on setting up your Moodle module. Strongly agree with points 3 and 10! Top 10 tips! Don’t use more than 3 font styles. It increases cognitive load for your learners. Students spend to much time processing info. Maintain consistency. Don’t use course page for your…Continue Reading Best practices in Moodle course design
Moodle Training for 500 Academics
Janina Dewitz, Barking and Dagenham College @Moodlemoot 2011 Initially providing; 1 size fits all training Demand driven group training Ad hoc 121 Negative impact; constant cycle of retraining. doing work for the lecturer So…they redesigned their training scheme Basics Screencasts, help sheets, FAQs Sent staff video tutorials instead of showing them Essentials for teachers and…Continue Reading Moodle Training for 500 Academics
Surveys in Sixty Minutes
Focusing on a popular tool in the HE researcher’s toolkit – the survey Sian Lindsay, Lecturer in Learning Development Ajmal Sultany, Research Assistant Learning Development Centre, City University London What we did in a nutshell For one of the LDC’s monthly research and journal club meetings, we decided to present on what we have learnt…Continue Reading Surveys in Sixty Minutes
Grainne Conole from Open University @ Moodlemoot 2011
New Pedagogies for Social and Participatory Media Conole’s keynote explored open resources for enhancing teaching and learning. How increased use of the extensive open and online tools that are available could enable us to build on each others ideas and research. She promotes the idea of mixing the use of closed institutional tools with open…Continue Reading Grainne Conole from Open University @ Moodlemoot 2011
MoodleMoot 2011
Myself and my colleague Stef divided MoodleMoot between us this year and I attended the second day of the conference on 20th April. This was my first MoodleMoot and while there was a lot to enjoy I found the second day quite short and with two keynotes there was not much time to hear about…Continue Reading MoodleMoot 2011
The StudyWell Website
This vignette is a short case study detailing the StudyWell website, which is a resource about positive study and plagiarism prevention, designed for staff and students here at City University London. Please take a look at the case study, and view the site at: www.city.ac.uk/studywell….Continue Reading The StudyWell Website