Using Moodle for online distance post-graduate courses: creating interactive activities

1. Using Moodle for online distance
post-graduate courses: creating
interactive activities
Jenny Crow, e-Learning Technology Specialist
Digital Education Unit, MVLS

2. Background
• Fully online distance students in the
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life
Science
• Post-Grad expectations

3. Activities
• Critical reviews of articles

4. Critical reviews

5. Activities
• Critical reviews of articles
• Academic posters

6. Academic Poster

7. Activities
• Critical reviews of articles
• Academic posters
• Critical assessment
• Group working

8. Wiki

9. Activities
• Critical reviews of articles
• Academic posters
• Critical assessment
• Group working
• Feedback and peer review
• Presentations
• OSCE
• Reflection
• Test of knowledge

10. Lessons learned
• Ask questions of the staff to figure out
what they are looking to achieve from
an activity
• Introduce a mixture of tools in the first
course
• Test out the technology / dry run.
• Fix issues and promptly reply to
students

11. Next steps
• Dissertation
• Refining activities
• Student recorded audio / video
feedback

12. Thanks and questions
Jenny.Crow@glasgow.ac.uk
#UofGWorldChangers
@UofGlasgow