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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. But the book doesn’t end there– you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and video. Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Blended learning with Moodle


Blended learning is when you support your face-to-face teaching with online resources and activities. In this section we will learn how we can achieve this using the skills and techniques we have learned so far.

Why blended learning

In this book we've been working together as I've been converting my Backyard Ballistics course over to Moodle. Yet another course I run with my students is a two-week project on jet engines, culminating with us building working pulse jets and maintaining/developing a bench-size turbo jet engine.

How might I want to support that project with Moodle? Well, by converting to Moodle I can:

  • Manage all of my teaching resources in one place and have full control over how they are presented to students (Chapter 3, Adding Documents and Handouts, Chapter 4, Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content , and Chapter 5, Moodle Makeover)

  • Encourage discussion and debate using the online communication skills we experienced in Chapter 7, Communicating...