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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


In this chapter, the solutions focused on developing a template you can use again, which is also your design document. As you start to build the structure of the course, you will focus on making your course easier to navigate. The goal of all these solutions is to reduce the time and effort your students spend figuring out what to do next, so that they can get on with the learning. Topic 0 is useful for introductory information, and for keeping students up-to-date with current announcements. Moving blocks to the main course area eliminates the side bars, and frees space for course content. An online syllabus with e-mail reminders helps keep your students on schedule.

Sometimes, reducing the effort the students need to make in order to navigate through your course requires a great effort on your part. Anything you do to help your students navigate easily through your course, is worth the effort. The result is less time spent wondering what to do next, and more time spent on your course...