Susan Smith Nash has been designing and developing online courses and programs for more than 15 years for education, training, and personal development. In addition to Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques, Packt Publishing, she is the author of a number of Moodle books and training videos, including Moodle Course Design - Best Practices and Moodle for Training and Professional Development. Other Packt Publishing instructional videos include two on the Canvas Virtual Learning Environment. She has also authored Video-Assisted Mobile Learningfor Writing Courses.
William Rice is an e-learning professional from New York City. He has written books on Moodle, Blackboard, Magento, and software training. He enjoys building e-learning solutions for businesses and gains professional satisfaction when his courses help students.
His hobbies include writing books, practicing archery near JFK Airport, and playing with his children.
William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society, how we create our tools, and how they shape us in turn. Married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits, he has two amazing sons.
Donald Schwartz has been designing and managing Moodle since 2003. He is an expert on video e-learning course presentation and delivery to large and disparate clients. His clients include medical societies (AOA), engineering schools, a startup med-tech school, a distributed recruitment firm, and many of the ENR top 50 for their CAD software training.
Don is the Principal of VectorSpect LLC, a New Hampshire USA based e-learning consultancy.
Don has reviewed two other Packt publications: Gamification with Moodle and Moodle Administration Essentials.
John Walker is a licensed professional engineer in industrial engineering and currently a licensed full-time teacher in computer science at Cleveland High School in Portland, OR. He has worked on GameMaker Essentials and the GameMaker Cookbook for Packt Publishing. John has used Moodle since 2005 and beyond administering Moodle and creating courses, has created Open Educational resources using Moodle.
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