Enhance your courses with Moodle HTML Blocks
Using HTML blocks can provide you and your learners with quick access to resources to save time and frustration.
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Author: John Allan
Generosity is spreading
A positive consequence of the COVID-19 disruption in the education and training sectors is benevolence. Beyond the heroic and selfless sacrifice that essential workers and frankly non-essential workers such as store clerks and maintenance caretakers are performing to keep societies safe, educators are exhibiting an unprecedented level of generosity and cooperation. For the purposes of this post, I include vendors, organizations, individuals, social groups and governments in the education realm. The following list reveals how we are all experiencing an abundance of support and information with our peers. It is amazing to see how people are at their best during a crisis.
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Online teaching hacks
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, teachers globally are challenged with maintaining courses and contact with their students. This post offers several hacks to assist instructors improve engagement and consistency on their courses.
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School closures, a few days in….
The growing COVID-19 crisis is effecting millions of students and teachers. After one week of a school lock out these are some lessons learned.
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School closures, eLearning, and the Coronavirus
On a global scale, temporary school closures are disrupting millions of students’ and teachers’ learning. Institutions that have integrated online
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Instructional Efficiencies for Smoother Lessons
Losing learners’ attention can lead to in-class anarchy. Ok, anarchy is a pretty strong term, but it certainly feels like
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Developing? Start with Plain text
Starting development with plain textThere are so many times that I have been preparing learning objects destined for online courses
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Good Material Creation Practices for Teachers
Introduction Instructors are constantly generating learning materials. Usually, they are prepared on-the-fly to anticipate or adapt to challenges that arise
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How did I miss that?
Recently I discovered a new Moodle plug in. Well, I should say that I thought it was a new plug
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Why Blended / Hybrid Learning?
Blended learning, sometimes referred to as hybrid learning involves instructors integrating online technology into their face-to-face instruction. There are many
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