Swanepoel C (Tampere University)
27.5.2024, 10:30–11:10, F3017
From the first LMS in the early nineties (Pressey’s “Teaching Machine”), the use of these systems in Higher Education continues to advance alongside rapidly changing technology. Initially, course pages at universities only provided a space where students submitted assignments and downloaded teaching resources as files. Over time, more interactive tools like “Forum” became popular across LMSs and now activities like “Board” and “Glossary” are becoming essential parts of the learning process. Educational technologies developed to the extent that course pages no longer have to function mainly as repositories for resources but have the potential to be interactive environments that support learning in both online and in-person courses. Educators can create user-friendly and interactive learning environments that are in-line with contemporary online experiences by: 1) Designing and presenting course resources not as downloadable lists of documents, but as activating content (combining standard Moodle activities like Chat, Choice, Database, etc. with H5P content) and 2) Organizing administrative materials in the same consistent course design. In this presentation, I illustrate these two principles by way of an exemplar Moodle course that is designed in Moodle’s OneTopic format and that presents content primarily in H5P’s “Interactive Book” content type. The Moodle course will show the potential of H5P tools to eliminate course clutter and a clunky out-of-date user experience.
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