Learners Creating Content with Moodle Sultan Qaboos University

Learners Creating Content with Moodle

Sultan Qaboos University

Learners Creating Content with Moodle �Reasons �Project for project details �Students’ feedback �Questions

Reasons for project �Student motivation

�Researchers said: �‘Project-based learning is centered on the learner and affords learners the opportunity for in-depth investigations…’ Grant (2002)

�Trainee � teachers said: ‘I had to thoroughly prepare; winging it was not an option. ’ Seo, Templeton and Pellegrino (2008)

Project details

�Moodle �Students �Quiz topics �Lab time �Demonstrations �Evaluation

Aida’s Quiz

Asila’s Quiz

Narjis’ Quiz

Asila’s Quiz

Students’ feedback

�Requirements ◦ Time ◦ Support ◦ Audience �Benefits ◦ Motivational ◦ Cognitive ◦ Practical

Time requirements �‘It take long time because we need to write the feedback for each questions. ’ (Abir)

Support requirements �‘I couldn’t find sentences for the words and making a quiz at first time was difficult but with the instructor I solved them. ’ (Adel)

Audience requirements �‘ … if we make a quiz, we have to test it for real audience because we spend time and effort to make quiz. ’ (Maria) �‘… I did it for real student. I know them … [and they] will do it not only [for] the teacher evaluation. ’ (Asila)

Motivational Benefits �‘Actually I enjoy making a quiz. ’ (Aida) �‘The students want to have some role in the course beside doing exercises. ’ (Asila) �‘I practice my listening because I listened to video many times. ’ (Abir)

Cognitive benefits �‘ Because I made the quiz that make me keep the words for a long time. ’ (Narjis) �‘Also, person who makes the quiz his/her intellectual skill increase because he thing[k]s about the information from all the side. ’ (Maria)

Practical ICT and teaching benefits �‘[I learned] how to attract learners attention by changing the font, size and colour. ’ (Aida) �‘[I learned] how the teacher feel when they did it. What are the secret of it. ’ (Asila)

Learners Creating Content with Moodle �‘They can guess the answer without watching video [when they do a quiz] but they could not make quiz without watching it. ’ (Asila)