Prsentation by Pieter van der Hijden (pvdh@sofos.nl) of Sofos Consultancy (www.sofos.nl) and Ned-Moove (www.ned-moove.nl) at the Moodle Moot UK; Milton Keynes UK, 23-25 Octobre 2007.
7. Designing an online course is not a mechanical
process. Numerous questions have to be dealt
with. To give a short impression:
What is really needed to fulfill the mission of the
course?
What is needed to accommodate a variety of learning
styles?
What is needed to compensate for the drawbacks of
asynchronous learning?
What should be fixed as part of the online course, what
should flexible in the hand of the teacher during course
delivery?
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8. Three steps:
1. Specify educational activities
2. Specify Moodle activities and resources
3. Finishing touch
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Colour Meaning Examples (from student point of view)
Red Individual activities Reading, working individually, being tested
individually.
Yellow Synchronous group
activities
Synchronous activity, either offline (face-to-face
meeting) or online (like chat).
Green Asynchronous group
activities
Asynchronous group activity, like working
collectively, communicating, presenting, receiving
feedback, testing.
16. For the resources: add a symbol to indicate
whether:
the resource is home-made,
the resource is purchased elsewhere.
For the green and yellow activities: add a
symbol to indicate:
plenary activities,
separated subgroup activities,
visible subgroup activities.
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Thank you!
Editor's Notes
How to design a Moodle course: the storyboard exercise
Pieter van der Hijden (pvdh@sofos.nl), Sofos Consultancy (www.sofos.nl), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Version: 22 October 2007
Step-1: specify educational activities
Look at the "course story board form". This form is a tool to design a whole course. One sheet has room for 1-5 topics (or weeks) containing 1-5 learning activities each. If this is not enough, you may extend the form horizontally and/or vertically by using more copies of the form.
Place a yellow sticker in the left cell of each row. Write the title of the topic on it.
Concentrate on the type of learning activities you want to happen for each of the topics.
Now, fill each topic with 1-5 learning activities (red, yellow, or green stickers).
Choose a colour for each student activity (see table below)
Write on the upper half of each sticker: the activity type plus the eventual subtopic. It is important to concentrate on what you want to happen, not on how you are going to use Moodle.
Compare your "global design" with your peers. Change it when appropriate.
ColourMeaningExamples (from student point of view)
RedIndividual activitiesReading, working individually, being tested individually.
YellowSynchronous group activitiesSynchronous activity, either offline (face-to-face meeting) or online (like chat).
GreenAsynchronous group activitiesAsynchronous group activity, like working collectively, communicating, presenting, receiving feedback, testing.
Step-2: specify Moodle activities and resources
Relate each educational activity to one or more Moodle activities. Use the following mind map to search for possible relations. Write your solution in the lower half of the stickers.
The relations between learning activities and Moodle resources and activities also can be formatted as a table (see below).
Student TaskFileWeb PageWeb LinkAssign- mentChatChoiceForumGlossa-ryHot Pota- toJournalLessonQuizSCORMSurveyWikiWork- shop
readingxxxxx
communica- tingxxx
working individuallyxxxxx
working collectivelyxxxxx
presentingxxx
receiving feedbackxxxxxxxxx
testingxxxxx
Step-3: Finishing touch
Now, review your course design:
For the resources: add a symbol to indicate whether:
the resource is home-made,
the resource is purchased elsewhere.
For the green and yellow activities: add a symbol to indicate:
plenary activities,
separated subgroup activities,
visible subgroup activities.