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Moodle – Student Benefits  Caters for varied learning styles.  Provides opportunity for extension.  Provides opportunity for revision.  Moodle appeals to the Digital Native. Children/young people involved in social networking; collaboration and communication.  Gives learners a sense of ‘ownership’… their class  Moodle, their content, their personalized space.  Offers flexibility and 24/7 access. Adapted from:

 Provides a vehicle for embedding ICT across the curriculum.  Reduction in workload (long term)  Responsibility is on student/parent  Features and functionality provide tools for teaching.  Motivation  WON’T teach the class though! Adapted from: Moodle – Teacher Benefits

 Supports home/school links  Gateway for information and communication  Secure Environment Adapted from: Moodle – Parent Benefits

Building courses DOES take time  Think of something you already teach that could be enriched by using Moodle  Choose one area/topic/issue to start  Don’t necessarily put everything online in the topic: have some offline work too where appropriate Moodle - What now? Adapted from:

Deployment Delivery of integrated distance learning Collaborative framework for student projects Foundation for student support Provide a platform for summative and formative assessment A shell for computer based learning resources Communication between students, teachers and network contributors Gateway to online materials Interactivity and CollaborationComplexity Document repository Chat rooms Forums Hyperlinks Quizzes Lessons Peer review tutorial Journals Workshops Scorm Phase 1 Phase 2Phase 3 From Cultural Learning Objects to Virtual Learning Environments for Cultural Heritage Education: Fabrizio Giorgini, PhD. The Rollout Plan