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Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0

By : Vincent Lee Stocker
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Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0

By: Vincent Lee Stocker

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is becoming increasingly popular in schools worldwide due to its ease of use and flexibility. Science is the perfect subject to benefit from the features of Moodle as students will find it easier to learn with the help of interactive content, rather than reading ancient textbooks.</p> <p><em>Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0</em> will give you lots of tips and tricks for teaching science using Moodle. This book will make learning more fun for your students and explain complicated concepts with ease with the help of images, diagrams, and interactive quizzes. It will teach you how to create quizzes, start forum discussions, embed videos, and much more, all while keeping the students' performance at the front of your mind, which is easily monitored using the Gradebook function.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Learning through Discussion: Forums, Chat, and Messaging
Index

Summary


By now, you will have a good-looking and engaging course. You've begun to organize your resources into topics and directories within them, making them look interesting so as to engage your learners. You have included relevant videos they can watch or embedded animations and slide shows. Titles and section summaries have been added and you will have regularly updated news feeds so that there is always new content displayed on your site that your learners can read. This is only scratching the surface of what Moodle can do for you. The good stuff is still to come. So far we have created a fairly static course, where the users are passive.

In the next chapter, we will look at getting the learners on your course interacting with each other. This is the start of exploring some of the really useful features, which will have a massive impact on your learners.