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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we've learned the best way to use Moodle to meet the evolving needs of online users. Specifically, we looked at the ways in which we can use Moodle's capabilities to help online communities accomplish what they would like to achieve with respect to transferring knowledge and skills, completing collaborative tasks, and demonstrating achievements via social media. In doing so, we've explored Moodle's flexibility and its wide range of core and contributed themes, activities, resources, and plugins.

In this book, we have guided you through the best ways to use Moodle and included information on using Moodle for a wide array of institutions as well as users/learners. We have described the best ways to set up courses and how to select the resources, activities, and assessments for many different uses. Then, we discussed the best ways to structure...