Presentation by Mark Drechsler at the Masterclass session of the 2012 Australian Moodlemoot.

1. Collaborate, construct, critique – going beyond dump
& pump
Mark Drechsler
Strictly FTW – Moodle Games Lab
Sarah Thorneycroft

2. Thank you to our Sponsors…..
Diamond Sponsor Joint Organiser
& Organiser
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3. Today’s goal:
To help you move beyond
the dump and pump course

4. What is dump and pump?
Absorb Recall Apply

5. A typical scenario
• Workshops: 30
• Databases: 330
• Wikis: 470
• Quizzes: 4000
• Assignments: 8500
• URLs: 23 500

6. A typical scenario
• Workshops: 30
• Databases: 330
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Wikis: 470
Quizzes: 4000
Files: 75 000
• Assignments: 8500
• URLs: 23 500

7. What does it all mean?
A typical course in this site with 50 content
items would comprise…
– 33 files
– 10 links to external websites
– 2 quizzes
– 4 assignments

8. What is a ‘good’ Moodle course?

9. The Moodle Design Pyramid
“Moodlecraft”
Good website design
Purpose alignment

10. The Moodle Design Pyramid
“Moodlecraft”
Today we’ll focus on improving these two
Good website design
Purpose alignment

11. Want more on purpose alignment?

12. Martin’s pedagogical progression

13. Today’s focus

14. Three ‘stretch’ goals for design
Construct
Collaborate
Chain

15. Beware!
Not all of these methods are suitable for
all courses – there are times when dump
and pump is still a valid model – but the
aim of today is to shift your thinking
to include the three c’s.

16. Construct
Provide opportunities for student
to construct their own
individual knowledge which
can be used as part of the course

17. Collaborate
Provide opportunities for student to
collaborate on knowledge
construction which can be used as
part of the course

18. Chain
Build on the constructed knowledge
within the course by creating
sequences of activities which build
on the constructed knowledge

19. Your review course:
Welcome to the Gold Coast!

20. Course aimed at visitors to the
Gold Coast, with the desired
learning outcome being a
knowledge of all that’s good on the
Goldie!

21. Your task:
• Critique the course, thinking about:
– The criteria for a ‘good’ Moodle course (Moodlecraft,
website design principles, purpose alignment); and
– Ways that you could redesign the course to introduce
the three c’s
• Map out a plan of attack for the changes you
would make (if we had more time!)