This session is focused on best practices in online course design and construction to maximize student engagement with course content.

1. Welcome! If you’re sitting next to more than
one person you talk to regularly, move! J
Then, get ready to share:
■ What brings you to the
Moot
■ How many of these Moodle
features you’ve tried
■ Your philosophy of learning
(what you think leads to
learning or how people
learn best)
Moodle Features
• Assignment • Survey
• Chat • Wiki
• Choice • Workshop
• Database • Book
• Feedback • File
• Forum • Folder
• Glossary • Label
• Lesson • Page
• Quiz • URL

2. ENGAGING STUDENTS
Michelle Moore
eLearning Consultancy
@michelledmoore

3. The Plan
■ Introductions
■ Talk
■ Talk some more
■ Build!

4. Introductions
At your table, tell your new friends . . .
■ Your name
■ What brings you to the
Moot
■ How many of these Moodle
features you’ve tried
■ Your philosophy of learning
(what leads to learning or
how people learn best)
Moodle Features
• Assignment • Survey
• Chat • Wiki
• Choice • Workshop
• Database • Book
• Feedback • File
• Forum • Folder
• Glossary • Label
• Lesson • Page
• Quiz • URL

5. WHAT IS
“ENGAGING”?

6. http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/facilitating-
collaborative-learning-20-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-pros/

7. Group Roles
Task Roles Maintenance Roles Hindering Roles
Initiating discussions Sensing group feelings Dominating
Clarifying points Harmonizing Withdrawing
Summarizing Compromising and
encouraging
Degrading
Challenging
assumptions/devil’s advocate
Time-keeping Uncooperative
Providing or researching
information
Relieving tension Side conversations
Reaching a consensus Bringing people into discussion
http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/facilitating-collaborative-learning-20-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-pros/
http://web.stanford.edu/group/resed/resed/staffresources/RM/training/grouproles.html

8. Group Roles
Task Roles Maintenance Roles Hindering Roles
Initiating discussions Sensing group feelings Dominating
Clarifying points Harmonizing Withdrawing
Summarizing Compromising and
encouraging
Degrading
Challenging
assumptions/devil’s advocate
Time-keeping Uncooperative
Providing or researching
information
Relieving tension Side conversations
Reaching a consensus Bringing people into discussion
Aim for these Avoid these

9. cc: filin ilia - aliyo.hu - https://www.flickr.com/photos/37408217@N08

10. WHAT IS
“ENGAGING”?

11. HOW DOES
ENGAGEMENT
LOOK?

12. WHAT
ENGAGES
YOU?

13. WHAT
DID YOU LEARN
WHEN YOU WERE
ENGAGED?

14. WHEN HAVE YOUR
LEARNERS BEEN
MOST ENGAGED?

15. WHAT DOES IT ALL
MEAN?

16. HOW DO WE CREATE
ENGAGING
LEARNING
EXPERIENCES?

18. http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emurphy/stemnet/cle3.html

19. WHAT’S THE
DIFFERENCE?

20. WHAT ARE THE
RISKS?

21. Where does Moodle fit in?

22. Moodle Features
• Assignment • Survey
• Chat • Wiki
• Choice • Workshop
• Database • Book
• Feedback • File
• Forum • Folder
• Glossary • Label
• Lesson • Page
• Quiz • URL

23. http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/moodle-tool-guide/

24. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/423876/Moodle/Index.html

25. Photo by djking - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/60368684@N00 Created with Haiku Deck

26. cc: stevendepolo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/10506540@N07

27. Continue the Conversation
■ Michelle Moore
■ michelle@elearningconsultancy.com
■ @michelledmoore
■ http://slideshare.net/michelledmoore