Knowing how to create online learning activities is essential for staff looking to make use of blending/distance learning.
Online Activities via LearningSpace (Moodle)
Perhaps the best place to start is discovering what the VLE can offer. The great thing about delivering online activities via LearningSpace is knowing that all of your students automatically have access, and that they are already familiar with the environment.
The following tools can be used to deliver activities through the VLE:
Creating a Learning Path
In Moodle it is possible to create a learning path through resources/activities on a course. This allows you to restrict access to content until certain prerequisite tasks have been completed, as well as branching students off to different activities depending on grades in a quiz (for example). This is a useful feature if you’re running online courses where students, perhaps, need greater direction.
Readings
- Salmon, G. (2002) E-tivities: The key to active online learning, London: Kogan Page