Episode 10: How do we know that they know? Moodle and assessment

It's _the_ bottom-line question for a teacher: "How do I know that my student has learned?" Moodle has a wide-variety of ways to assess student learning and we'll take a look at a few of those ways.

Show Notes:
Tools for memory work:

• jMemorize (an opensource, java-based flashcard system based on timed-intervals)
• StudyStack (a free flashcard building site with additional activites; here's some of mine)

Books for developing and conducting classrooms online

• Teaching with Technology (ACOT put together this book in 1997 and it is still an amazingly relevant book...buy this book!)
• Theory and Practice of Online Learning (From Athabasca University, an incredible source from higher education, but still applicable to all online learning environments; offered free through CC license).

In this episode, I touch on ways that we assess in the classroom and how those types of assessments are handled in Moodle.

• Quizzes
• Short Responses
• Polls
• Workshops

I will deal directly with Moodle's current Workshop module in a week or two as many folk have given up on it because of some UI and bug issues.

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Next episode: Web Docs: But I like to upgrade
Time: 04/29/2008 05:05 PM EDT
Episode Notes: Is there long-term value to using web apps such as Google Docs and Buzzword? Is there a web app that will tie my shoes? This week we'll look at the growing list of standard desktop activities that are now available on the web (mostly free of charge).