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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)

Achievement and motivation

Moodle provides a wide array of options for self-paced independent study students to demonstrate achievement. We've recommended using certificates and badges because the process of earning, issuing, and displaying them can be automated.

Motivation through setting goals and then rewarding people when they achieve the goals is at the heart of badges and certificates.

In the case of badges, there is an element of gamification, which encourages students to compete with each other to earn badges and be the best in terms of their respective skill sets and interests. We have discussed badges and certificates and it's useful to review them and remind ourselves that they both motivate while the course is in progress and when it is complete.