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Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever. This book will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book. Our goal is to encourage creativity, and the free MoodleCloud hosting option is an ideal place for teachers, students, trainers, and administrators to jump in and play with all the new features, which include powerful new plug-ins, new resources, and activities. Moodle can be your sandbox as well as your castle of learning! With this book, you will build learning experiences that will last your learners’ lifetimes.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Selecting resources and activities

Let's return to our course. Now that you can write effective learning outcomes and have used them to build your course framework, which is structured around topics, let's return to adding resources and activities and let's look at matching learning activities with resources and activities.

Let's return to Topic 1: New Definitions of Tourism. Let's say that we want to start by adding content that helps define tourism. What might that include? Here are our options from the pull-down menu that says Add a resource. Note that there is another pull-down menu next to it that says Add an activity. Keep in mind that we are using the Boost theme and that there may be slight variations with other themes:

Adding a resource

So, we could choose to add a file which consists of an article with examples of tourism. Or we could create...