Title: Sofos: Presentation at OEB 2011 and Moodlemoot Ireland & UK 2012

Dynamic courses: individual learning paths and online collaborative exercises in moodle 2

Moodle 2 enables new didactic applications like individual learning paths and online collaborative exercises. Their effective implementation requires a top-down approach from didactic goals to practical solutions. Monitoring and intervening the learning processes becomes more important than before.

In Moodle 2, it is possible to define a condition that has to be met by a student before a certain resource or activity will become visible to him/her. The completion status of another activity might be such a condition. From a didactic point of view, a pre-set sequence of activities or a list of options can be offered to the students.

In earlier versions already, students could be placed in groups and a range of activities could be switched to group mode eventually. Further, once a grouping (a set of groups) was defined, activities as well as resources could be restricted to students from one grouping only. This enables creating more sets of parallel groups, or using groupings for different maturity levels or for different stages the students have to go through.

The combination of groupings and conditional activities, gives powerful means to implement online collaborative exercises. This will be deminstrated, discussed and practised during the presentation.

Role: Student — Students generally have less privileges within a course.

Section 1
  Nieuws en mededelingen
  Chatruimte voor algemeen gebruik
  Discussieforum voor algemeen gebruik
  Afgeronde activiteiten per deelnemer
Introduction
  Synopsis
  Digitale didactiek
  Moodle 2.0
Preparation
  Assignment 1: Create your personal profile
  Assignment 2: Join our discussion forum
  Assignment 3: Give your vote
  Assignment 4: Create and submit a paper
Individual learning paths: level groups
  Example: book
  Example: web page
  Example: forum
  Example: assignment
  Example: file
  Example: folder
Individual learning paths: processes
  Concatenation
  This is the first activity
  This is the second activity
  This is the third activity
  Selection
  This is the fourth activity: Alternative A
  This is the fifth activity - Alternative A
  This is the fourth activity: Alternative B
  This is the fifth activity - Alternative B
  This is the sixth activity (not OK)
  Parallel
  Dit is de zevende activiteit - optie A
  Dit is de zevende activiteit - optie B
  Dit is de zevende activiteit - optie C
  Dit is activiteit 8
  Iteratie (niet mogelijk)
Interactive group work: phases
  Phase-A - Determine the stakeholders
  1. Study the case description
  2. Brainstorm individually
  3. Compose a list of 25 stakeholders
  4. Discuss to reduce the list to exactly seven stakeholders
  5. Set-up a workgroup for each stakeholder
  Phase-B: Elaborate the perspective of the stakehol...
  6. Describe the current situation from the perspective of the stakeholder
  7. Describe the required situation from the perspective of the stakeholder
  8. Beschrijf vier activiteiten om de gewenste situatie te bereiken
  Gameboard
  Fase C: Opstellen van een implementatieplan
  Gameboard
  9. Stem de resultaten onderling af
Interactive group work: role play
  Choose a role
  Role 1: Disco Break Out
  Role 2: Residents Committee Old City
  Role 3: Students League Five Point Six
  Phase A - Preparation
  instruction: Role 1, Phase-A
  Opdracht: Rol 2, Fase A
  Opdracht: Rol 3, Fase A
  Fase B: Uitvoering
  Opdracht: Rol 1, Fase B
  Opdracht: Rol 2, Fase B
  Opdracht: Rol 3, Fase B
  Fase C: Nazorg
  Opdracht: Rol 1, Fase C
  Opdracht: Rol 2, Fase C
  Opdracht: Rol 3, Fase C
Conclusion
  Feedback-formulier
Backstage
  7S-group: preference
  7S-group: chatroom
  7S-group: discussion forum
  7S-group: wiki
  7S-group: feedback
  7S-group: plenary discussion forum
  5D-plenair: Groepsvoorkeur
  5D-groep: Chatruimte
  5D-groep: Discussieforum
  5D-groep: Wiki
  5D-groep: Feedback
  5D-plenair: Discussieforum
  Moodle sites
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13