Providing Learning Resources

There are times when the best choice is to involve learners in the process of building a learning resource. This allows learners to contribute their unique perspectives, but more importantly, it allows learners to develop skills in research, reflection, critical thinking, and decision making in the content area of the course. 

Moodle offers a Wiki activity for collaborative document development, such as a brainstorming session for ideas and solutions.The Glossary is also an activity that can lead to a useful community-developed resource.

Many other collaboration tools are available outside Moodle for similar work, and these are often chosen for their ease of use and creative modes of collaboration, from mind-mapping to using digital post-it notes. More traditional collaborative documents are available in Google Drive (like Text Documents, Spread Sheets, Presentation Slides, and Drawings). 

A Forum is not a resource in the strict sense, but it can provide a venue for communicating about collaborative writing that uses other tools. For example, a small group discussion can lead to a document being developed offline as a course project.