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Moodle Course Design Best Practices

By : Susan Smith Nash, Michelle Moore
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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

About the Reviewers

Diana Benner, an educator and technologist for over 15 years, is currently a technology administrator in the State of Texas. She regularly shares her knowledge of online learning through webinars and presentations at both national and state technology conferences.

She has administered Moodle for a large K-12 public school district as well as designed and facilitated many online professional learning courses for educators. She worked as an online learning specialist, where she would train educators in the use of Moodle as well as provide technical support. In addition, as an instructional designer for the State of Texas, she had the opportunity to create SCORM-based e-Learning courses in Moodle. She has a Master of Education degree in Educational Technology and has received her Online Course Instructors certification, which certifies her to teach online and develop online courses. She is an active member of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) and the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA).

She enjoys training others on the process of translating traditional content to the online environment. Diana currently resides in Austin, Texas and can be contacted for consultation at . Her online portfolio can be found at http://dbenner.org.

Rafael Reyna Camones is a consultant for information technology. He has experience in the development of modules for Moodle and focuses on the integration of the e-Learning platform with mobile devices (iOS, Android, and Windows Phone).

He graduated as Systems Engineer from the Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión. He has trained university staff in the use of Moodle and developed a pilot manner for implementing the courses. In his spare time, he enjoys a good conversation and exchanging ideas.

Another book reviewed by Rafael Reyna Camones is the Instant book Moodle Quiz Module How-to, Packt Publishing.

Anna Krassa (kanna) has a bachelor's degree in Librarianship and Information Science, but is working mostly as an e-Learning consultant. She is located inNorth Greece (Nea Moudania, Chalkidiki) and became the first Moodle-certified teacher in Greece in December 2006. In May 2007, she became a Mentor-assessor for MTC/MCCC candidates, collaborating with HRD New Zealand Moodle Partner—Certification Central Administration. From 2012, Anna became the main Mentor-assessor in the MCCC Central Administration. Her responsibilities include assessing MCCC candidates, mentoring MCCC Mentor-assessors, and representing HRDNZ (Moodle Partner) in conferences.

Anna has also been working with the GAC Corporate Academy since 2007, initially as an external facilitator from HRDNZ Moodle Partner facilitating the Personal and Professional Development course. When the course withdrew after two years, her position changed from facilitating to course development and GAClearn administration because of her Moodle background. Since 2012, she has been working as a GCA Learning Developer. Her responsibilities include site administration, course design, facilitator training and support, participant assistance, research on e-Learning and Moodle, as well as representation of GCA in conferences, seminars, and similar events.

In Greece, she has worked for the e-Learning service of the Greek School Network and Telemathea, the Library of University of Macedonia. As a volunteer, she has worked for FreeMoodle and Mathisis, the most active e-schools in Greece and Cyprus. Internationally, she has worked in her capacity as HRDNZ contractor in Bahrain (GII Academy), Ethiopia (Mekelle University), Canada (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), and Cyprus (European University of Cyprus).

Anna started collaborating with Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer in 2013. So far, she has reviewed the following books:

  • Moodle 2.5 Multimedia, João Pedro Soares Fernandes

  • Moodle Course Design Best Practices, Susan Smith Nash and Michelle Moore

On a personal level, she is married to Vasilis and together they have a lovely daughter.

Danny Wahl is an educational technology consultant and implementation specialist working in the Asia-Pacific region with a particular focus on international schools. He has assisted several schools with 1:1 computing and online and mobile learning programs, among other things. When he is not working, he enjoys web development, studying the Bible, and playing the ukulele.