We will give you a video tour of Moodle (our online learning platform), via our Moodle website, so you’ll get an idea of how to access course content, interact with instructors and turn in assignments. We will also offer an “Orientation to Moodle and Online Learning” session prior to and during the opening residency. A few weeks or so before the first online course starts, we will host an optional “Open House” weekend on our Moodle site during which students will have the opportunity to “play” with Moodle and to get “live” help from our Moodle experts.
Online learning takes place in a variety of ways, but it is most effective when everyone in a course regularly and actively engages with the course content (readings, lectures, videos, etc.), with their instructor and with one another. Much of this engagement happens in threaded discussions (Forums), which are asynchronous (non-live) and, also, through different types of group work.