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Moodle Course Design Best Practices

By : Susan Smith Nash, Michelle Moore
Book Image

Moodle Course Design Best Practices

By: Susan Smith Nash, Michelle Moore

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle Course Design Best Practices is a practical guide that will teach you how to use the tools available in Moodle to develop unique courses for many kinds of organizations.</p> <p>You will be able to utilize the themes that have been contributed by developers. You can incorporate many different types of course materials and interactive assessments. You will also learn how to modify the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments to create courses for individual use, cohorts, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The use of the various multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle Course Design Best Practices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Selecting resources and activities


Now that you can write effective learning outcomes and have used them to build your course framework, which is structured around topics, you are ready to start adding resources and activities.

Keep in mind that each of your topics will contain the following items:

  • A summary of your topic as it relates to the course as a whole and the specific content within that topic

  • A discussion forum where your students will interact with each other and you as they explain, discuss, and debate subjects that relate to the learning outcomes

  • Resources, such as readings, audio lectures, videos, maps, and more, that comprise the course content

  • Activities that provide an opportunity to rehearse the skills, reinforce knowledge, and practice the abilities needed for the assessments.

When you add each element, make sure that it directly connects to your learning outcome and you explain how those connections are made. Also, this is a good time to remind yourself of the Universal Design...