LIB.705.Assignment.1.Moodle+Summary2

LIB.705.F10.Module1.Moodle Summary by [|Georgia DeMesa]  - Saturday, 4 September 2010, 10:09 PM  Lib. 705.10F.ON Moodle Summary Moodle is a modular course management system, another name for Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). As an on-line learning medium, it allows organization structures, i.e. educational institutions, corporations, etc. to disseminate information, allow its recipients to receive information, summarize one’s findings, evaluate the input, then reconstruct and synthesize new ways to interpret and disseminate learned information. As students login, the sharing through forums allows all participants with same interests to share, discuss the same course information. Moodle being modular, the instructor can create tools such as a calendar, activity module, links, and the top screen has hyperlinks to promote access to resources and return to prior links easily, so that the focus can be on “learning” not just learning to get to the resources, given the objective is to provide support so the student can produce product, the outcome. Having an opportunity to retrieve on one’s moodle page all the resources to complete a task, rather than open and close screens is nice. I find the resource tools very helpful. Knowing that there is a wordprocessing toolbar within the forum, journal settings, enables “twikking” of content. I am very appreciative Atomic Learning is available to help reteach skills that I have difficulty comprehending initially. The ability to repetitively learn and overlearn processes is important for this digital learner. Knowing that this tool is utilized in over 50,000 learning communities and I am one of nine million users is “awesome”. The fact 200 countries utilized this medium is interesting. Given that I am a first year" ongoing continuous enabled access" user of this medium for communicating,and the Atomic Learning Center is available to provide a tutorial service to become versed with all aspects of the learning tool, Moodle, I know this experience with Moodle will be a qualitative one. LIB.705.Assignment1.Moodle Summary2