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Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development

By : William Rice
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Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development

By: William Rice

Overview of this book

<h2>Enhance your teaching with the Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development book and eBook</h2> <p>Moodle is the leading Open Source e learning management system. Using Moodle, teachers and professors can easily construct richly textured web-based courses. A course can consist of a number of lessons, with each lesson including reading materials; activities such as quizzes, tests, surveys, and projects; and social elements that encourage interaction and group work between students.</p> <p><strong>Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development</strong> shows you how to use Moodle as a tool to enhance your teaching. It will help you analyse your students' requirements, and come to an understanding of what Moodle can do for them. After that you'll see how to use every feature of Moodle to meet your course goals. Moodle is relatively easy to install and use, but the real challenge is to develop a learning process that leverages its power and maps effectively onto the content-established learning situation. This book and eBook guides you through meeting that challenge.</p> <p>The latest edition of the ultimate introduction to Moodle will show you how to add static learning material, interactive activities, and social features to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e learning courses, this book will prove a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle.</p> <p>A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Adding Interaction with Lessons and Assignments
7
Evaluating Students with Quizzes, Choices, and Feedback
8
Adding Social Activities to Your Course
Index

About the Author

William Rice is a training manager who lives, works, and plays in New York City. He has written several books for Packt on Moodle. He has a special interest in rapid e-learning development.

William's indoor hobbies include writing books, spending way too much time reading sites like slashdot and mashable, and chasing after his sons. His outdoor hobbies include practicing archery within sight of JFK airport, foraging for edible wild plants in New York City parks, and chasing after his sons.

William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society: how we create our tools, and how our tools in turn shape us. He is married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits, and has two amazing sons.

William can be reached through his blog at williamriceinc.blogspot.com, and his LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/williamrice4.