In Production - Moodle & The Learning Wheel

Investigation

Discussion

Collabouration

Acquasition

Production

Practice

Canvas sits at the heart of the learning and teaching delivery model; the learning wheel helps lecturers identify ways of integrating core tools and techniques to augment their Blended Course Delivery Model.

The Learning Wheel

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The Learning Wheel has been designed as a tool to support lecturers in identifying various digital methods and technologies for augmenting their Learning and Teaching Delivery, of which a large proportion is sat within Moodle (LMS) the colleges learning and teaching platform.

The learning Wheel & Moodle

Moodle sits at the heart of the learning and teaching delivery model. Moodle is where most of the hard work is done by lecturers to produce intuitive courses and immersive learning materials. The learning wheel is designed around digital a pedagogy and helps lecturers identify ways of integrating tools and techniques to augment their online course delivery within Moodle. With the help of the Learning Wheel you can contextualised ‘subject’ specific activities with each aligned to the five modes of engagement: Aqusition, Collaboration, Discussion, Investigation, Practice and Production.

Moodle

Moodle

is the act of processing, absorbing and storing new information and being able to retrieve that information at a later date to identify how successful acquasition process has been.To process, store and retrieve information mostly depends on how well the organisation and design of the information is delivered. It also depends on how much a piece of information is relevant to the context it refers to and whether it is influenced by how the information is structured.

Knowledge acquisition:

Acquisition

The Forum activity allows lecturers to create specific discussion areas in order to control the way students interact within the topic. There are 5 main forum types:

Please see Glosssary for specilised words and definitions.

• Standard forum
• Blog like forum
• Single topic forum
• Simple discussion forum
• Q & A forum

Key practical activities

Moodle Forums

Please see Glosssary for specilised words and definitions.

Instructional Video Moodle Forums

• encourage discussion if students are quiet help shape ideas if students begin to wander off-task.
• your role will be defined as discussions/a course progresses you will explicitly but gradually relinquish control of the discussions.
• you will encourage and support learners to share control of discussions (for example you might ask a learner/group of learners to summarise contributions to a discussion thread/topic, or you might ask learners to initiate discussion topics)

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• you wish to have involvement in the forum or if you want the students to lead and own the space.
• you want the forum to add value to the face to face environment or have a life of its own in its own right outside the lecture theatre / classroom or seminar room.
• you are prepared to make appropriate contributions to the discussion to:

Ask yourself if:

Ideas for using forums

Yes

No

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