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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
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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

Instructional strategy


You should develop your instructional strategy by linking your activities to your learning objectives. Remember that your instructional strategy is the way that you map your learning objectives to your course materials, your activities, and your assessments.

As you start to organize the course, follow these steps:

  1. Review the overall goals of your course
  2. Review the learning objectives
  3. Describe how you will measure the outcomes
  4. Review the activities that connect to the learning outcomes and the course content
  5. Review the activities that are most appropriate for your learners
  6. Determine how you would like to best motivate your learners by developing badges
  7. Determine whether or not your institution requires you to align with competency frameworks

Following these steps will help you organize your assignments and also create a template that you can use for your other courses.