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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle, the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS) has released several new features and enhancements in its latest 3.0 release. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses that run on a wide range of platforms including mobile and cloud. Beginning with developing an effective online course, you will write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy and list the kinds of instructional materials that will work given one's goal. You will gradually move on to setting up different types of forums for discussions and incorporating multi-media from cloud-base sources. You will then focus on developing effective timed tests, self-scoring quizzes while organizing the content, building different lessons, and incorporating assessments. Lastly, you will dive into more advanced topics such as creating interactive templates for a full course by focussing on creating each element and create workshops and portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Summary


This chapter presented ideas about how people learn in an online environment and it provided a brief overview of the functions and features of Moodle. Some of these features include book, chat, assignment, quiz, wiki, Workshop, and more. These constitute building blocks that allow you to create unique courses that you can easily replicate thanks to the object-oriented philosophy of Moodle.

We also discussed competing theories about how people learn and why that matters to the instructor and also to the instructional designer who is building the course. The chapter also presented basic information about how Moodle is organized and what type of resources it has that can be used by instructors to build the kind of courses that they find useful. Finally, the chapter described a strategy to get started with Moodle that helps instructors develop a course, which facilitates the learning process and helps create a learning community.