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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—Remote-Learner


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

Remote-Learner needed an online version of their Moodle training program for teachers and course creators. Until the development of our online courses, most of our training was being delivered mainly on-site (face-to-face).

In deciding to develop an online training program, we recognized that a number of our clients wanted a more flexible, online option. Moreover, we believed our clients would benefit significantly by being immersed in the Moodle environment as a learner while they learned to develop their own Moodle courses.

To help ensure the success of our training participants, we planned to offer a facilitated course with a strong instructor presence. In addition to the asynchronous forum discussions and activity feedback, we wanted to incorporate web conference sessions each week to allow course participants to connect with the instructor and ask questions. In supporting...