Filing Cabinet
(personalised, files and web links provided by tutor)

Tutor lead
(quizzes, polls, tutor lead forums)

Student driven
(forums, self organised activity)

Moodle courses can be classified by the extent to which they use three 'domains' (after Staley 2007)

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Imagine scoring Moodle courses by the percentage along each of the three dimensions...

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A lot of courses are used as filing cabinets providing convenient access to learning materials.

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Some courses have a more tutor lead flavour and provide quizzes, polls and structured forum activities

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Courses where reflection and independent activity are important might have a strong polarisation along the Student Directed axis

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Don't assume that a balanced approach is necessarily good practice, it depends on the course!