…as I design and teach “Intro to Online Teaching”

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the cms is a dinosaur …and you know what happened to them…

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I am using moodle to teach ETAP687 because UAlbany was unable to provide instructor-level BLS course shells for the students in this course to create their own online courses, which is a main project for the course. I created the course in Moodle so that students could see from the student perspective what moodle can [...]

when is a discussion not a “discussion”? When it is a written assignment…

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Its really funny now that students have experience with other course management systems that all use a common similar basic function-based taxonomy to label categories of types of online course activity – like “discussion” for example – that it has resulted in expectations and consequent confusion when you use the functionality for something other than [...]