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Towards 'Outstanding'
Over Christmas I have gone through the last 500 OFSTED visits looking for the ICT subject visits. There are 15 of them with and additional 4 'Best Practice' inspections. Of the 15 two are 'Outstanding' five are 'Good ' five are 'Satisfactory' and three 'Unsatisfactory' All of them can give us an insight into what works and what doesn't. Often it is how or if, information is presented. It is sometimes a 'Looking Glass' world. One school got 'Good' for providing no ICT in year 11 for non option group students, another school got 'unsatisfactory' for getting 87% C+ for the same group.
The main article is here including all of the reports gathered so far, more will follow.
http://moodlexchange.com/?p=338#more-338 Speak up - US research into online learning for June 2009
Based on 140 000 surveys and 1.3 million K-12 students
Data from 08-09, focussing on students of Maths, Science and Technology (ICT)
The report which was sponsored by Blackboard looked at K-12 students (compulsory age education) and their attitudes to what they called online education but which could be understood to include Learning Management Systems and VLEs. Blackboard is a popular commercial VLE
Story Here The Effect of Online Learning on student progress
“The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction”
The research from the US is based on a thousand practical studies on the use of online learning technologies from both Europe and the US. It draws a distinction with the earlier technologies like video conferencing and distance learning, which effectively used traditional teaching techniques with new(ish) technology, that produced results similar to face-to-face classroom learning
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On this Moodle installation you will find courses for the OCT Nationals in ICT level 2. They have been in daily use for three years and have been altered and updated at the end of every academic year based on our experience of teaching them. There will be another version of units 1 and 20 available for September.
At the top of the introduction page of each course, or in the banner there is a Moodle Backup file in zip format. You use this to recreate these courses by 'restoring from backup'.
Tutorial on Creating a course from the backup file
To use them there are three things to be aware of.
- The files will almost certainly be too big to simply import into Moodle, they will need FTPing into a named folder. Set up a course add a folder in 'Files' in the Admin block, look at the id when you hover over the course name to see how to find it.
- Create a 'Category' called 'OCR Nationals' or whatever.
- You create the course by going to 'Restore' in the admin block of the course you set up and beginning the restore process. You will be offered the chance to 'Restore as a new course'
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The main site and blog is at www.secondary-vle.net where there are articles, tips & tricks and the chance to leave comments
Caution
It would not be a good idea to link to this moodle installation and use it to teach from, the server is too slow to deal with the resulting hundreds of simultaneous hits.
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October 2009
There are updated versions of Units 1,4 and 20 available at the bottom of the page. The major change is that instead of having two routes through the courses, intermediate and higher, there is one but the layout documents allow students to opt for Intermediate - Pass - if they wish.
The Scale we use for these courses and implied in the documents and assignments is - Below Pass, Pass, Merit, Distinction
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you are welcome to use these courses without charge, every effort has been made to keep material copyright free but it is not guaranteed . If you use them an email would be encouraging but not essential, let me know of any innovations you make and I will share them as well. If you have courses you would like to share, let me know and I will give you the necessary permission.
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Please register, the process is automatic and you will be sent a link to get into the Moodle site. The courses are set up as they are used and there is a link to the backup file for the course on the introduction page of each course. Your email will not be shared and you are unlikely to be contacted.
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This site is maintained by Chris Bradley an AST in ICT at Frederick Gent School in Derbyshire. I reckon the AST job description covers this approach
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The US Department of Education have published the results of the largest survey ever into online learning, especially as it relates to school age students. The results are momentous - online learning is significantly more effective than traditional Face-to-Face learning that is the staple fare of the classroom. Videos and quizzes do not help either. It is the control the student has over their progress that makes the difference. See a more complete article here and a pdf of the report.
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