Development of a customised software module within the Moodle LMS for team-based PBL courses
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Paper/Presentation Title | Development of a customised software module within the Moodle LMS for team-based PBL courses |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Zhou, Hong (Author), Goh, Steven C. (Author), Worden, John (Author), Tschirpig, Barry (Author), Yong, Andrew (Author) and Brodie, Lyn (Author) |
Editors | Gardner, Anne and Jolly, Lesley |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2010) |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2010 |
Place of Publication | Sydney, Australia |
ISBN | 9780646546100 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://aaee.com.au/conferences/AAEE2010/PDF/AUTHOR/AE100007.PDF |
Conference/Event | 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AAEE 2010) |
Event Details | Rank B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B |
Event Details | 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AAEE 2010) Parent Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) Delivery In person Event Date 05 to end of 08 Dec 2010 Event Location Sydney, Australia |
Abstract | This paper reports on the development of a software Moodle block project within the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) to enhance its capability to allocate students from many differently distinguished cohorts into team-based PBL classes at The University of Southern Queensland (USQ). Within the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying (FoES) at USQ, there is an ongoing need for USQ Moodle Development Team to support academic staff members to manage their courses efficiently and improve students’ learning experience, particularly in our FoES Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Strand where courses have large student numbers and are team-based. There is a need for the LMS to have the capability to construct student teams based on a combination of academic program, discipline major and gender, and to complement their learning experience via peer assessments. In addition, the assessment module within USQ Moodle LMS needs to be enhanced to accommodate team-based assessments and to facilitate its derivation of individual results using a combination of peer-assessed and instructor-assessed results. This paper focuses on the development of new Moodle modules to address the two main deficiencies within team-based courses. While this paper is somewhat software development centric, there were educational drivers such as profiling used in team allocation to achieve a desired mix in the teams, and the pedagogies behind peer-instructor assessment mix that were addressed. |
Keywords | Moodle; learning management system; higher education research |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390113. Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy |
461299. Software engineering not elsewhere classified | |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
Byline Affiliations | Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering |
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | |
Department of Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
Division of Information and Communication Technology Services | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q07y3/development-of-a-customised-software-module-within-the-moodle-lms-for-team-based-pbl-courses
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