Designing engaging and effective online courses is a challenge faced by institutions of all types, shapes and sizes. This training session aims to demystify and simplify the process of online course design in the context of the Moodlerooms platform and informed by the latest trends in pedagogy and learning technology.
4. Mike Highfield
Blackboard International Consulting
• EMEA
• Moodlerooms
• Onsite Training Delivery
• Site and Course Design and
Development
• Implementation Consulting
• Clients include:
o Higher Ed
o Corporate
o Government
o Not for profit
6. Description
• Designing engaging and effective online courses is a challenge faced by institutions of
all types, shapes and sizes. This training session aims to demystify and simplify the
process of online course design in the context of the Moodlerooms platform and
informed by the latest trends in pedagogy and learning technology. Whilst this is a
'hands off' training session having access to your Moodle would be of benefit so
BYOD!
7. Poll 1
• What "sector" are you from?
• What experience have you got of designing online courses?
• What are you hoping to learn form today's session?
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8. MOOC
Defining online learning environments
Distance
Learning
Blended
learning
Face to
face
learning
Flipped
classroom
Web
enhanced
Self-
paced
Enhance
Extend
10. Poll 2
• What is the key component of an engaging online course? - QUIZ
• What, in your view, is the key component of engaging online course?
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14. Not yet – instructional design models
• Course design hits the buffers because of stakeholder types
– ID
– SME (e.g. a lecturer in HE or corporate Learning and Development staff)
– Developer (often same as ID)
– SME and ID talk a different language. ID = ADDIE and massive list of other models. SME’s really
cannot be bothered!
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18. Course design – activity planning
Delivered Browse Collaborate Assess Reflect
Unit/Week/Topic
1
Unit/Week/Topic
2
Unit/Week/Topic
3
Unit/Week/Topic
4
Video – 5
minutes
Journal article
Web site
Web site
Quiz Summative
test
Peer review
assignment
Original
article
Podcast
Lecture
excerpt
Research
question
Journal article
Personal
journal
Group blog
Course blog
Learning
outcomes -1
Learning
outcomes -2
Learning
outcomes -3
Learning
outcomes -4
Wiki
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
19. Poll 3
• Arguably, video is the best medium for "delivered content". What's you're view on
this and what barriers are there for delivering video content?
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21. Delivered content – breaking barriers
Video camera
Video editing
software
Codec?
I know, I’ll record a
quick ten minute
video. I won’t have
to explain this for
the 100th time!
Microphone
Hosting?
Updates Time and cost
35. Collaboration – Moodlerooms’ Advanced Forum
• Keep up with what’s important to you with the ability to subscribe to only certain discussions within a
forum.
• Sort posts by the post date, creation date, first name, last name, or the number of replies. Then control
the order of that sort in either ascending or descending fashion.
• Mark posts that enhance and extend the discussion as “Substantive.”
• Bookmark posts that you need to return to later, or that you may want to draw other students
attention to in an instructor reply.
• Collect sensitive data from course participants by enabling anonymous posting, while retaining the
ability to grade those posts.
• Grade Advanced forums with Advanced grading methods, like core Moodle Rubrics, or Joule Checklists.
• Use the Joule Grader to quickly and easily grade Advanced forums.
40. Reflective learning
• What are the most important themes you have learned this week?
• What aspect of this week did you find difficult?
• What did you find most interesting? And why?
• Was there something that you learned this week that prompted you to do your own
research?
• Are there any web sites or other online resource that you found particularly useful in
furthering your knowledge and understanding?
SOURCE: HEA
41. Poll (final)
• What (if anything!) is the most useful thing you've learned from today's session?
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Magic?