Improving student and faculty experience with Clarkson University’s learning management system’s (LMS) Moodle is the subject of a poster presentation by Clarkson University’s graduate instructional designer, Loretta Driskel, at MoodleMoot, in Denver, CO later this month.
In 2017, staff teamed up to improve ways course content is presented to students. By designing and deploying an institutional template within Moodle, instructors are guided on what and how to include information for their students.
Moodle is an open source software platform for learning management that is popular among colleges and universities with 96 million users worldwide. The template installation was made possible using the Plug-in local_course_template. The implementation accomplished its goals to offer improved student experience, greater consistency, and improved organization of course materials.
Project owners were Clarkson University graduate instructional designers Erin Blauvelt and Driskel, and system administrator Steven Green. The project team listened to input from student survey responses during the planning and design of the template. Faculty benefit from the new template through savings of time, and improved work experience.
Driskel has over 18 years of experience as a teacher and over 14 as an instructional designer for higher education. Her passion has been creating engaging and diverse learning experiences for students and faculty. When she realized that she enjoys helping ANYONE reach their learning goals, she combined her Master’s degree in Educational Computing with her skills in higher education to become a graduate instructional design specialist at Clarkson University.
Driskel has presented at a wide variety of venues such as ADEIL, Online Learning Consortium, Sloan-C International Online Learning, Sloan-C Blending Learning, ELearning Consortium of Colorado Conference, SUNY Online Learning Summit (SOL) (DOODLE), Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference (TLT) and the Conference on Instructional Technologies
She is recognized as an Open SUNY Fellow Expert Online Instructional Designer, is a member of the MERLOT Editorial Board (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) and a MERLOT Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire. She is also a certified Quality Matters Peer Reviewer and has reviewed hundreds of online and blended course using various checklists including the OSCQR.
More about MoodleMoot US 2018
For the first time ever, MoodleMoot US 2018 is being held in Denver, Colorado. MoodleMoot is a conference dedicated to users, developers and administrators of the very popular open-source course management system called Moodle. https://moodlemoot.org/mootus18/
More about Clarkson’s Teaching & Learning Corner
The Teaching & Learning Corner or TLC is Clarkson’s home for academic technology and graduate instructional design services. The TLC is the hub for Clarkson faculty seeking tools and resources essential in delivering quality learning experiences in today’s dynamic environment.
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