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APPROACH TO THE CREATION OF A MICROLEARNING COURSE IN CODING WEB PAGES WITHIN THE LMS ENVIRONMENT

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DOI: 10.34916/el.2019.11.35

Radim Polasek University of Ostrava (Czech Republic)

Abstract: For the creation of an e-Learning MicroLearning (ML) course “Creation of Webpages” we chose our ML concept slightly adjusted to needs of the subject matter. The paper describes the creation principles with examples and transformation scheme from the “classic” e-Learning design. Because of the nature of learning HTML and PHP coding, the course was extended by interactive coding exercises with prepared HTML code fragments. The created e-learning course also makes use of interactive microcontent units. The aim of this approach is to engage more active participation of student in the course and let them test coding directly within the LMS.

Keywords: MicroLearning, e-Learning, Web Pages, coding, LMS

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