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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Many people will recognize Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used in schools to teach lessons and organize student information. Fewer people will realize that Moodle can be used in businesses to dispense training, share important documents, and encourage teamwork. Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide will show you how to set up Moodle in your corporation. By introducing a system within your company that will allow for a centralized, accessible repository of knowledge, staff training will become a lot more streamlined, and the retention of skills will improve, leading to huge productivity benefits. An easy-to-access, user-friendly system is crucial to keep communication flowing in any successful business. By putting your H.R. documents, newsletters, discussions, and training documents all in one place, which is accessible from the office or from home, you are giving your employees all the information that they need to be productive and become integrated members of your company. This book will show you how to get your important business documents online, as well as the recruitment and training processes. You will learn how to move any existing processes to Moodle, as well as set up new ones that will have you wondering what you did before Moodle came along!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Case study – National Health Institute, Italy


Since 1989, the External Relations Office (ERO) of the Italian National Health Institute (NHI) has been a WHO Reference Centre for active learning.

The External Relations Office is staffed by doctors, researchers from a variety of disciplines and other professionals with specific skills in the areas of public health, health management and training.

What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?

Since 1989, the External Relations Office (ERO) of the Italian National Health Institute (NHI) has been a WHO Reference Centre for active learning. Since 2004, the ERO has been providing distance training in Public Health for professionals, experimenting, innovative learning methods based on the integration of active learning methodologies such as Problem Based Learning (PBL), which were originally devised for classroom learning, with e-learning tools. PBL is a methodology that challenges participants to "learn to learn" by...