Hi Tim,
At the risk of being acused of a lemming like leap, I think it's
important to realize that Moodle's not really about allocating work to
individual students, it's about building online learning communities,
underpinned by a social constructionist pedagogy; *this may not suit all
institutions*. Whilst this isn't incompatible with extreme
individualisation, it's not easy to reconcile working together to
construct shared understanding with each learner working through
sequences of learning objects at their own pace.
I think Moodle does go along way to meet the personalisation agenda, but
in a way which is more empowering of the learners themselves, in that
they have the autonomy to select from the resources and activities
presented, and explore their own chosen routes through the learning
landscape, and also provides space for each learner's unique
contribution to the learning environment - Moodle courses are as much
about learners' contributions to forums, wikis and gloassaries as SCORMs
and quizzes.
Miles.
Harrison Tim (Staff) wrote:
> I love the way Moodle evangelists always spring to its defense. Usually
> like lemmings.
>
> As a school governor (not always the best place to be when your
> workplace is in competition), I did ask the question as to why the
> school is pursuing the option of MS Class Server as opposed to Moodle or
> other solutions. The answer seems to me to be interesting.
>
> The reason is that Moodle is a course based product and current
> educational requirements are student based. To try and elaborate, what
> this means is that they (as in schools) have to show that they are
> tailoring the curriculum to the individual need rather than sticking the
> students all on the same course with the same materials.
>
> So, here is the question: I have a course on Moodle (ICT AS Level) which
> is taken by about 140 students in 8 groups. How do I make sure that each
> student receives only the learning materials I want them to receive and
> not simply the default list? For example, I have a student due to arrive
> at 12:00 today who wants help with database normalisation. I have some
> materials that I know he can cope with because he is quite clever. I do
> not want other members of the class to see these as they would not react
> well if they tried them.
>
> The same applies to groups. We all teach differently so not all my
> materials would be used by each group, how do I arrange for each group
> to have different work without having a mass of confusing courses?
>
> Apparently this is easy using Class Server......
>
> Tim Harrison
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Miles Berry
Deputy Head, St Ives School, Haslemere
http://stiveshaslemere.com
http://elgg.net/mberry/weblog
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