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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

Chapter 4. Best Practices in Content Delivery

In Chapter 3, Organizing Your Course, we learned how to develop different types of structures for your courses and how to customize them so that they meet the needs of your institution, students, and instructors.

Now we are ready to look at the content of the course, which will include the course material as well as activities and assessments. We will look at the best ways to deliver your content, which involves reviewing the types of content, formats, and tools.

If you take a look at your Moodle installation, you may feel overwhelmed at the number of choices that you have.

We're going to streamline the approach by looking at three different categories of content: resources, activities, and assessments. Considering this approach, it will be much easier for us to cover all that we need to, in order to create a course that helps us achieve our desired learning outcomes as well as accommodate all kinds of learners.

In this chapter, we'll show you the...