Moodle Lessons

Make the most out of the lesson tool in Moodle:

Two Buzz words thrown around in E-learning are Chunking and Branching. These are two of the most effective methods of displaying learning, especially with modern Technologies. Chunking and Branching can be optimised with the technology used, coupled with human interaction with these devices.

Moodle lesson tool allows you to develop excellent modules that will embed learning functionality. The branching lesson allows you to embed good formative and summative learning. Examples would be how I would test topics learnt and mid formative checks during the learning phase.  During classes a good activity would be Flashcards to check learning and progress. This can be done within Moodle.

This tool is exceptionally useful for branching quizzes, diagnostic testing and case study work. It’s quite good to open up a lesson and really develop the scenario through branching, having the multiple options and potential inputs.

Another excellent use would be customer support, health care, IT Support simulations these could be developed step by step gaining good experience. The potential mistakes could be branched to potential failures as can good decisions. A good example of this is developing a business enterprise branching courses coupled with gamification the course was a bit like playing monopoly without a dice, but really embedded business sense into learners.

Lessons can be chunked and broken down into manageable parts for learners to complete as they progress through the course. Moodle lesson supports this functionality well.

Moodle Workshop Activity

Moodle workshop activities allow an excellent method of collaboration, teamwork and overall work-group environment. The use of peer assessment coupled with the platform setup on Moodle allows good peer to peer learning, if setup correctly it allows the development of a learning community that learns from itself, the level of knowledge and experience is phenomenal.

To develop and use the workshop activity well, you are required to develop an effective communication strategy from the beginning. It is important to embed collaboration and group work from the start of the course. Have activities that require Learners to collaborate early on, ice breaker activities such as motivations for completing the course, hobbies and support orientated tasks. Furthermore this needs to develop into communication that directly impacts learning and should be moving towards formal peer to peer assessments.


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