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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)

Preface

This book is the one place you'll find technical support, along with solid instructional design. Your Moodle courses will motivate students and help them achieve success. This book includes step-by-step guidance in creating effective courses, incorporating the content that sets you apart, and seamlessly integrating assessment. There is a focus on collaborative learning as well as self-guided, autonomous learning, complete with easy-to-develop assessments and automatically generated badges and certificates. The user will learn how to set up Moodle courses and then host and teach them at a very low cost using new cloud-based platforms and applications. This is an introductory book designed as a quick-start guide, which incorporates the fundamentals of sound instructional design and some of Moodle’s latest and greatest features.