Learning management system has emerged from auxiliary role to critical one in higher education. Present college students are technologically perceptive and demand their faculty to use technology and learning management systems. This paper explores the latest trends in this initiative and discusses the successful implementation of LMS in United Institute of Technology (UIT), Coimbatore. UIT persistently seeks and adopts innovative methods to equip the students with knowledge, skills and character to become competent engineers by facilitating the dynamic Learning Management System. This paper focuses exclusively on open source learning management system and impact of LMS in academic performance of the students in UIT and their utilization the LMS technology. This paper also suggests how to improve teaching and learning functions to improve the performance and acquisition of knowledge by using Learning Management System.
Key words: Learning Management System, e-Learning, Virtual Learning, Moodle
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Learning management system has emerged from auxiliary role to critical one in higher education. Present college students are technologically perceptive and demand their faculty to use technology and learning management systems. This paper explores the latest trends in this initiative and discusses the successful implementation of LMS in United Institute of Technology (UIT), Coimbatore. UIT persistently seeks and adopts innovative methods to equip the students with knowledge, skills and character to become competent engineers by facilitating the dynamic Learning Management System. This paper focuses exclusively on open source learning management system and impact of LMS in academic performance of the students in UIT and their utilization the LMS technology. This paper also suggests how to improve teaching and learning functions to improve the performance and acquisition of knowledge by using Learning Management System.
Key words: Learning Management System, e-Learning, Virtual Learning, Moodle
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Prayagraj Patel Program for Student Support is an initiative by All India Sardar Patel Sansthan to empower young minds to study and establish or secure a prestigious career by working for the nation.
Presentation from one of the keynote presentations from the iMoot2013.
I Moodle, they Moodle, we all Moodle together!
A focus on Learning with Moodle.
Those of us at the iMoot know Moodle. We are probably already sold on what it can do and the benefits to education.
However, for everyday teachers who use Moodle because their organisation provides it, the term Moodle is often used as a noun - a title for a system that can be used to store content and has a wide range of features to support learning (but are not necessarily used).
This keynote looks at Moodle as a verb instead of a noun. Not the verb to ‘meander or tinker away with something’ but as a ‘doing word’ to use in the same context as the term ‘to learn’. We will look at how we can structure Moodle activities for learning rather than content and look at how we promote it to others so that it does get used for learning.
The presentation will show practical examples to illustrate some good (and not so good) practice.
This presentation contains part of my book entitled "Reading and Writing Skils in the 21st Century Learners" which I shared in one of ISTAR's International Conference and DepEd National Reading Month in 2021.
Cengage Learning Webinar, Dev Studies, Using Technology in Texas' Integrated ...Cengage Learning
In this April 25, 2013 webinar, professors Kina Lara and Tanya Stanley, from San Jacinto College, provided background on INRW courses in Texas and how to use technology to meet students' objectives and goals. They described how these teacher and student-friendly tools have helped them to reinforce skills taught in the classroom, enable self-paced learning, design their class to fit their individual students' needs, and provide students with instant feedback on writing drafts.
2016 MOOC to Blended; pedagogies & personalised learning Inge de Waard
Slide deck providing an overview of MOOC & blended learning. Including personalized, social and individual learning benefits. This deck provides an overview of the pedagogies used by iMinds to design courses that strengthen professional learners. Practical guidelines and theoretical frames are described briefly.
Accessibility - Getting out of the way of Student Learning | Emily Southwell ...Blackboard APAC
Sometimes less is more. What are our students really after in their learning experience and how can we make Moodle 'get out of the way' so that the students can get there faster? Emily will share some of the strategies used at ACOM and the challenges faced in making their Moodle site accessible to all their users.
Presentation from one of the keynote presentations from the iMoot2013.
I Moodle, they Moodle, we all Moodle together!
A focus on Learning with Moodle.
Those of us at the iMoot know Moodle. We are probably already sold on what it can do and the benefits to education.
However, for everyday teachers who use Moodle because their organisation provides it, the term Moodle is often used as a noun - a title for a system that can be used to store content and has a wide range of features to support learning (but are not necessarily used).
This keynote looks at Moodle as a verb instead of a noun. Not the verb to ‘meander or tinker away with something’ but as a ‘doing word’ to use in the same context as the term ‘to learn’. We will look at how we can structure Moodle activities for learning rather than content and look at how we promote it to others so that it does get used for learning.
The presentation will show practical examples to illustrate some good (and not so good) practice.
This presentation contains part of my book entitled "Reading and Writing Skils in the 21st Century Learners" which I shared in one of ISTAR's International Conference and DepEd National Reading Month in 2021.
Cengage Learning Webinar, Dev Studies, Using Technology in Texas' Integrated ...Cengage Learning
In this April 25, 2013 webinar, professors Kina Lara and Tanya Stanley, from San Jacinto College, provided background on INRW courses in Texas and how to use technology to meet students' objectives and goals. They described how these teacher and student-friendly tools have helped them to reinforce skills taught in the classroom, enable self-paced learning, design their class to fit their individual students' needs, and provide students with instant feedback on writing drafts.
2016 MOOC to Blended; pedagogies & personalised learning Inge de Waard
Slide deck providing an overview of MOOC & blended learning. Including personalized, social and individual learning benefits. This deck provides an overview of the pedagogies used by iMinds to design courses that strengthen professional learners. Practical guidelines and theoretical frames are described briefly.
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Sometimes less is more. What are our students really after in their learning experience and how can we make Moodle 'get out of the way' so that the students can get there faster? Emily will share some of the strategies used at ACOM and the challenges faced in making their Moodle site accessible to all their users.
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3. Agenda
Extensive Reading Background
Moodlereader
Project Implementation
Developments & Issues
The Next Steps
Q&A – Participants and All Presenters
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4. Extensive Reading…
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is reading a lot of easy and
enjoyable books.
5. Intensive Reading Extensive Reading
Should be easy
Fast
Aim is to build
confidence and
enjoyment
Choice of material to
appeal to personal
interests
Pleasure focused
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Can be challenging
Slow
Aim is to teach
specific strategies
and skills
Material usually
selected by
curriculum/teacher
Test focused
7. The need for reading speed
Read slowly
Don’t enjoy
reading
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Don’t
read
much
Don’t
understand
much
8. The need for reading speed
Read faster
more
Enjoy
reading
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Read
more
Understand
9. Learners that engage in
Extensive Reading….
improve reading rate
become more fluent readers
make gains in motivation and attitude toward
reading and make gains in overall L2 proficiency
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become better readers (and better readers are
usually betters writers and betters spellers)
10. The Past……..
In class quiz
Book report
Book review
In-class discussion
Book “show and tell”
• Time consuming for students
• Time consuming for teachers
• Sometimes demotivating for students
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11. The Present
• Moodlereader
Moodle websites to support Extensive Reading:
• moodlereader.org (M1.9)
• moodlereader.com (M2,3)
• local independent site
simplified site
for schools and
small institutions,
not using Moodle
user management
tools.
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• MReader
12. The Choices
Whether to run a local site or use the Moodlereader server?
Would prefer to manage our own, but not allowed to run an
internet access moodle site from within the University for
security reasons
Originally chose M1.9 but volunteered to use upgraded
M2.x site as quiz service is better optimized and quicker
and we would be one of only a few institutions using the
website so likely to have more bandwidth available
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Choice between Moodle 1.9x and Moodle 2.x?
13. The Site
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• Free
• Uses Open Source software (currently Moodle
2.3.1)
• Has additional blocks and plugins to manage
database of book titles and levels and the quizzes.
• Standard Moodle login and student management
tools, plus teachers’ ability to upload students into
groups from the course page not just from the
admin interface.
• Quizzes for c. 2,000 books from Beginners to
Advanced
• Run by English teachers for English teachers
• A community to which you can contribute
14. Student’s Main Page
Covers of books read successfully
List of quizzes taken
Search by publisher
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Search by title words
15. Choosing a Graded Reader
Important information
1. Books are organized by TYPE and then MOODLE READER LEVEL
2. TYPE tells what kind of book:
Action/Adventure (A) Horror (H)
Human Interest (HI)
Romance (R),
Mystery (M)
Short Stories (S)
People/Places/Things/Ideas (P)
3. MOODLE READER LEVEL is NOT the same as the LC course level. The table below
suggests the MOODLE READER LEVEL that will probably be comfortable for you in
your course.
230
340
450
560/603
Moodle Reader
Level
Level 1
Level 2
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Level 7
TYPE
MOODLE READER
LEVEL
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Your LC
Course
120
16. The Books - 1
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17. The Books - 2
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18. The Books - 3
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19. The Quizzes
Quizzes for over 2,000 books
Easy quizzes which can be done “open book”
Timed – usually 15 mins., some shorter
Usually 10 questions (4 types)
Adjustable success criterion (Ours is 60%)
Once only, repeats only in special circumstances
• Fairly standard format
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Some MCQs
Some T/F
Some list choice, who said what to whom?
One - order the events
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20. Sample Questions 1
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21. Sample Questions 2
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22. Reports
• Organised for your class
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23. Moodlereader At SQU
Attempted introduction prior to 2009
Introduced Spring 2011: Pilot Project
Change in Library Management and Policies
Incorporated in LC Curriculum Fall 2011
4,130 users in 2011-13
2,968 active users in all of 2012-3
2,680 active users in Fall Semester 2013
636 books where quiz taken and passed at least once
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24. Issues 1
• Quiz Quality Uneven
• Significant quality control in progress
• Quizzes done where books not read?
• Posssibly some cheat sheets circulating
• Some control with cheat feature (similar time / same quiz)
• Moodlereader hiccups at busy times
• Control student timing – avoid need for rush periods
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• Direct Cheating
25. Issues 2
• Password Control
• Password emails blocked by
security systems outside Oman
• Setting the passmark
• How many books
• Was 4 (too few) per semester, now 8, enough?
• Dealing with late arrivals
• Students miss briefing, some teachers don’t compensate
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• What level should it be?
26. How about an extensive reading
program in your school or college?
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