The 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology (altc2013) 10–12 September 2013, Nottingham, UK altc2013 Building new cultures of learning Everybody learns, but the ways in which we learn are changing rapidly. The 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) sets out to explore and contribute to building new cultures…Continue Reading One Hundred and One Things About Video In Education
A new and improved online reading service is in town! Its called Reading Lists Online (RLO) developed by a company called Talis Aspire. The fundamental aspect of the tool is that it is online; meaning that students can access their module/ course reading lists anytime from anywhere. What is Reading Lists Online? RLO provides students…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Reading Lists Online
Group work is one of the educational strategies, that if employed well, can promote collaboration and participation amongst students. Group work can also nurture a more active and deeper learning experience and can provide lecturers with valuable insights into the way students understand particular topics and or concepts. In addition to exposing students to different…Continue Reading Moodle 2: A guide to enabling groupwork
Each year the Learning Development Centre (LDC) produce a video to introduce students to the key features of the Online Learning Environment – Moodle. Staff from the LDC were joined by Dr Julie MacLaren, Senior Lecturer Education Development in the School of Health Sciences to film the video for the upcoming academic year. The video…Continue Reading The Making of the Moodle Induction Video
A key purpose of assessment is to provide feedback to students on their learning. Multiple Choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful tool for formative testing. The design and the embedding of feedback into MCQ items can be arguably the most important part of the exercise as well as the most time-consuming (Bull & McKenna,…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Designing and Developing Multiple Choice Assessments
Moodle offers ways in which to effectively effectively contact students and staff directly using Moodle. The notification settings allow you to configure how you would prefer to receive all communications from Moodle (this includes items such as forums posts and messages). To configure your notification settings, click My profile in the top navigation bar and…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Communication settings and Activities
Logging In Go to: http://moodle.city.ac.uk. Select the Login button from the top right of the page. Enter your Username (e.g. abcd123), Password and click Login. Overview The My Moodle homepage where you will find a list of the modules you are enrolled on and information related to these modules. All the current modules you are…Continue Reading Moodle 2: My Moodle features
There are now improved ways to navigate around your module page. The module dashboard is a quick link to different areas of your module. You can upload a module image and navigate quickly around your module. Module Layout A. Floating Navigation Bar for quick navigation to settings and topics B. Dashboard for fast access to…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Enhanced Layout and Navigation
Why Discussion Forums? One of the issues that universities face is the challenge of getting students to reflect on their own learning, particularly whilst off campus. Wenger et al. (2002) promotes the idea that groups who share their concerns and/or passions about a topic will be deepening their knowledge and expertise if they are interacting…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Using Discussion Forums to facilitate students learning
Activity completion is a new feature in Moodle that allows the teacher to set completion criteria for a specific activity or resource. A tick () appears against the item when the student meets this criteria. The criterion might be viewing, receiving a certain score or a student marking it as complete. Activity Completion allows staff…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Activity Completion