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Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
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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.

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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course
Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course
The advantages of Moodle
Getting started with Moodle
Site settings for course designers
Designing an effective course for student success
Summary
2
Planning Your Course
Planning Your Course
Learning outcomes
Universal design for learning
Selecting resources and activities
Types of assessment
Summary
3
Organizing Your Course
Organizing Your Course
Looking at your course goals and the big picture
Customizing your course page
Additional elements to customize the appearance of your course
Summary
4
Best Practices in Content Delivery
Best Practices in Content Delivery
Managing types of content and activities
Using assessments to deliver content
Incorporating collaborative learning
Incorporating productivity and collaboration apps
Summary
5
Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses
Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses
Self-paced independent study
Configuring your course – Global settings
Course-level configuration
Resources
Achievement and motivation
Summary
6
Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction
Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction
Characteristics of instructor-led, cohort-based courses
Setting up your instructor-led course – Global settings
Course-level configuration
Summary
7
Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses
Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses
Characteristics of student-centered project-based courses
Setting up your project-based course – Global settings
Course-level configuration
Summary
8
Moodle for Online Communities
Moodle for Online Communities
Moodle and online communities
Summary
9
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