MMVC19 :Moodle for Blended Learning: Hands-On Workshop

The event took place on 4th  August and the speaker was Edoardo  Lina.
I watched the recording online later and I was sure it would be an interesting report about his experience.
Its main theme was presenting  Moodle in education in Israel. He focussed on the hard work he has been doing for " Going Moodle" supported by his government .  The training was for all educators and what is really interesting is to learn that  Moodle is used in secondary schools and also at university in Israel.

Here you can see some more links  related to his  great work in Israel.

Edoardo  recorded also this podcast two years ago. It was an interesting  experience to share his ideas online too.

https://www.elearningworld.org/moodle-podcast-eduardo-lina-israel/


The Department of Education of his country has  worked together with the  Chief  Inspector to have more educators involved in teaching and  learning  thanks to Moodle.
The idea was to work on a blended learning approach and to support educators  who would become teachers who would work in English and also in projects thanks to this LMS.


My reflections on the webinar were positive: I also like  Moodle as a LMS  but in most secondary schools in my country we are  using  Google Classroom or  Weschool.   Both systems provide  collaborative  activities and you can monitor the students' progress and provide grading. Moodle is used for CPD on line for educators and at university in Italy.

Since  Moodle  requires people who can work well online  I think that for some learners starting working online should be done when they are 14-15 years old.  For university students it is the perfect tool for managing courses and working online too. They can find resources and work on projects or  activities, they can post comments and  I feel that they are more used to working online as this is required in most universities.

The next step for me is to continue my exploration into  LMS and check which one  is the best and the easiest one to use. In particular I would never use Moodle with students who are  ten  years old or younger.
I must add that for some  educators who are  not  experts it would be difficult for them to use Moodle in Italy.


Link to the presentation