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Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash

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Moodle Course Design Best Practices

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By: Susan Smith Nash

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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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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

Planning Your Course

Learning outcomes

Universal design for learning

Selecting resources and activities

Types of assessment

Summary

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

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

Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses

Self-paced independent study

Configuring your course – Global settings

Course-level configuration

Resources

Achievement and motivation

Summary

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

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

Moodle for Online Communities

Moodle and online communities

Summary

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