Implementing Online Teaching and Learning: Using Moodle and Other Web 2.0 Features
Web-based (Moodle) course - Register to work-at-your-own-pace anytime - 30 CE from the MLA
Topic 1. Introduction to the Course and Review of the Instructional Design Process; Orientation to The Moodle* Learning Management System (LMS)
Lectures and Readings
Learning Activities
Topic 2. Reviewing and Choosing Graphics, Media, Communications Tools, and Support and Management Options
Lectures and Readings
Topic 3. Implementing a Unit of Instruction in The Moodle* Learning Management System (LMS) (2 weeks)
Lectures and Readings
A Unit of Instruction is a Course/Workshop/Tutorial. *or other LMS or simple Web site of your choice with teacher guidance and approval
Note: You will be connecting to http://moodle.kovacs.com to complete these Learning Activities on the Teacher's LMS or other LMS or simple Web site of your choice with teacher guidance and approval
. Contact the teacher at diane@kovacs.com to obtain your user name and password for your Moodle practice area.Learning Activities: (Moodle assignments on top level)
Strongly Recommended Prerequisites (not required)
Overview and Learning Objectives
In this hands-on course we will overview of the state-of-the-art of online teaching and learning technology and its applications. We will review the use of teaching materials created with multi-media plug-ins and classroom communications tools and specifically the Moodle LMS.
This course requires a significant amount of hands-on learning-activities and project work, as well as lectures and other readings. This work will result in a completed instructional unit e.g., short course/workshop/tutorial implemented on the teacher's Moodle LMS or on an LMS or simple Web site of students' choice in consultation with the teacher.
This is a three topic course.
- Topic one is a review the instructional design process for online teaching and learning and orientation to Moodle..
- Topic two is reviewing and choosing online teaching and learning graphics, media, and communications tools, as well as support and management options
- Topic three steps participants through implementing a course/workshop/tutorial on the teacher's Moodle LMS or on another LMS or simple Web site of the participants' choice. Two weeks are designated for topic three project completion.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify, evaluate, and choose appropriate distance education/Web-based teaching technologies within the context of a good instructional design plan (e.g., media, graphics, communications, and management tools).
- Participants will implement a draft or completed instructional design plan on the teacher's Moodle LMS or other LMS or simple Web site of their choice.
Librarians and other information specialists who are interested in reviewing the instructional design process, distance education/Web-based teaching tools and options, and implementing a simple Web-based short course/tutorial/course on the Moodle LMS.
Some experience with online teaching and learning is assumed. (e.g., have taken a course online, completed a Web-based tutorial as a learner). Web-based teachers will find the course a good review and reinforcement experience.
Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser. Some HTML or HTML editor experience will be needed. Some basic HTML review will be accessible. Level of instruction is advanced.
Register anytime to work-at-your-own-pace with a Web teacher through e-mail, chat and Moodle. $275 - 30 CE from the MLA
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet &Web Training.She has been a Web Teacher and Consultant for nearly 20 years. She designs and teaches Web-based and in-person courses for organizations and individuals including UIUC GSLIS LEEP, SJSU SLIS, ALAEditions, ACRL, MLA, and others. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based and in-person MLA Approved CE Courses since 2001
Her most recent book is 7 Steps to Effective Online Teaching forthcoming from ALA Editions. The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, 2nd Edition was published in 2009 by Neal-Schuman Publishers. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) was published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007).
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.
