Early instructional strategies relied heavily on textbooks, lectures, and Socratic questioning to achieve learning objectives. Over time, teachers have added the use of audio and visual media, active learning methodologies, cooperative and collaborative learning, and classroom assessment techniques and rubrics to their repertoire of instructional strategies. Online learning is, in one sense, merely another tool to add to the learning toolkit.

In another way, however, it has the potential to dramatically alter the time and place where learning occurs. As with any learning strategy, the success of online learning critically depends on the quality of the learning experience. This workshop addresses how to design learning that makes the best use of online methodologies to offer meaningful and varied experiences, and facilitate effective student learning.

This workshop was designed to achieve the following objectives:
•  To explore ways to use Moodle to enhance classroom learning
•  To understand how to increase the chances for success with Moodle
•  To understand and apply a learning design model to identify meaningful activities
•  To choose ways to substitute online learning for current classroom activities
•  To choose ways to deepen learning by adding online activities