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Hello and welcome to the BEST PRACTICES  online learning course website. Please be patient; this site is still under construction.

Whether you are just starting to develop an online course or wanting to add an online component to your face-to-face course or looking for new uses of familiar resources and activities, you will want to have a look at what is presented here. Rather than a 'how to' this site shows  you what aspects of a course might look like and how other faculty have used them effectively in their courses.

If you are new to this environment, you will also want to refer to the Faculty Guide to Online Learning > It contains lots of useful information about the Moodle Course Management System we use here.

The first topics show examples resources and activities that have been used in actual courses. They includes images, videos, sound files, links to external websites, screen shots from live courses, etc.

If you have a best practice that works for you and your students in your online course, please post a link to it the Best Practices forum >

The second group of topics include student projects, forums, discussions and chats, etc.
 
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EXTERNAL LINKS

Here are examples of some external links that can be listed as they are here on the Main Course Page or embedded anywhere in the Course Website, for example in Books, Forums or even in live Chats.

Here is an embedded link>
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MEDIA FILES

Many file formats are supported including .jpg, .gif, .mov, MP3, .ppt, ADD

The following image, a .jpg downloaded from the Internet, was posted using the insert image function in the HTML editor.

weischer house
Matthias Weischer, House, 2003, Oil on Canvas, 180 x 240cm |source

You can embed an MP3 file right in the text in the HTML editor sound file.(MP3 audio)
Or a power point presentation such as this one >

Quicktime videos can also be presented like this
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ASSIGNMENTS

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POLLING STUDENTS


Standardized surveys can be used to poll students on the courses. See surveys in Activities draw down menu.

Want to find out what the students in your class think try constructing a Choice activity; they  can be used to make informal class polls. A recent activity module that works very well and provide lots of options is the Feedback module, a non graded quiz, with lots of question style options.
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BOOKS

In this activity module you are able to include all type of written, sound and visual content in  a format the mimics a tradition book with chapters and sub-chapters. What follows are a number of Books that are used in our current online courses.


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CRITIQUES

Critiques in the online environment are replaced by peer reviews or other forms of written commentary on student work. Student work may be a submitted in the Assignment module or in Forums.


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DISCUSSIONS

Discussions take place in Forums, asynchronous, and in Chats and with Skype, synchronous. Here are a few screen shots of examples of the kinds of discussions that may take place either of these locations.

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GLOSSARIES


Glossaries of terms can be provided in a course and be compile by the instructor and may or may not be added to by students.

Random entries appear on the course front page by adding a Random Glossary Entry Block.
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WIKIS, BLOGS AND PODCASTS


Effective ways of creating innovative learning tools more coming soon.
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GALLERY OF STUDENT PROJECTS

This item is under construction and will be available soon.

The following presentation of some student work was made in Microsoft Word power point and then recorded as Quicktime video with SnapZ Pro.


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