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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

Overview of this book

Moodle is the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need.This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you'll learn to get the best from Moodle.This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you'll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle's unique features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter presented ideas about how people learn in an online environment, and it provided a brief overview of the functions and features of Moodle. Some of these features include book, chat, assignment, quiz, wiki, workshop, and more. These constitute building blocks that allow you to create unique courses that you can easily replicate—thanks to the object-oriented philosophy of Moodle.

The chapter also discussed competing theories about how people learn and why that matters to the instructor, and also to the instructional designer who is building the course. The chapter also presented basic information about how Moodle is organized, and what type of resources it has that can be used by instructors to build the kind of courses that they find useful. Finally, the chapter described a strategy for getting started that helps instructors develop a course which facilitates the learning process and also helps create a learning community.