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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
Book Image

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Overview of this book

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums 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 to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Being mindful of user experience


As you prepare to consider your user experience, take a moment to reflect on how the user experience affects the student's ability to learn. You'll want to keep the learning objectives and outcomes first and foremost in the learner's mind. Then, you'll want to ensure that you clearly map the learning objectives to the course content, activities, and assessment. They need to make sense, and your learner should have an idea of how the activity or content will lead to the ability to perform the task and demonstrate skill or mastery.

An easy way to maintain mindfulness of the user experience is to think of the mnemonic CORN:

C  Clear: Your outcomes should be clear, as should the process of working through the course. Think of a map and how it guides one to a final destination. A clear map contains just the right amount of information, is not superfluous, and provides help when needed.

O  Outcome-focused: Ensure that you're always tied to the learning outcomes, which...