So, what do students need in the introductory module of an online course? In her 2004 study of course design elements most valued by adult learners, Ausburn found that for online course features, the second highest-ranking item was course information documents…
Category: Module 2
eLearning Toolkit: Web Design and HTML Authoring
Working towards my upcoming second assignment, I have spent the past few days experimenting with the “Web Design and HTML Authoring” section of the eLearning Toolkit. I primarily used the present blog to test the different requirements related on the…
Multimedia Authoring: Still Images
I decided to explore the Still Images portion of the eLearning toolkit next, keeping in mind the upcoming requirement of creating an icebreaker activity for my Moodle introductory module. Introductions prior to the creation of a community of practice is…
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Connect LMS: Mobile Attempts
Following yesterday’s reflection, I decided to go a little further into the experience and interact with ETEC565a, on Connect LMS (from Blackboard) with my iPhone using the Safari browser. It was a terrible, barely-functional end-user experience. The page constantly refreshed,…
mMoodle
Since starting the MET program in January 2011, I have occasionally interacted with the UBC LMS with iOS mobile devices including iPad2 (which I no longer have access to), an iPhone 4S (also no more), and my current iPhone 4.…
Serenity Now, or, Getting into the mSwing of Things
After struggling to find my footing, as noted in my January 27 reflection, I received feedback that my Flight Plan was perhaps clearer than I thought it was: Two clear objectives, mLearning and military/training contexts; with instructions to carry on.…
Hello, Moodle.
Tonight I dipped my toe in the waters of Moodle, following the step-by-step instructions on the ETEC565a eLearning Toolkit Wiki to create a welcome page, a forum, and a forum response. I found my first experience to be lukewarm –…
Benoît’s Choice
This week in our considerations of the selection on Learning Management Systems, we were offered a scenario and instructed to provide one comprehensive question to guide the outcome, and to estimate the number of weeks it would take to create…
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