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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success. This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform’s new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You’ll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0’s new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world. By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting started
5
Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
14
Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators

Why use a workshop?

A workshop is a great way to boost the knowledge and skill level of a group very quickly. It helps people implement social constructivism by learning from each other, namely through peer review. Workshops in Moodle, such as those held in face-to-face settings, are great for getting students up to speed and functional with very little downtime. Usually, they focus on a single outcome, and they pare down the focus to ensure that the specific skill or knowledge set is achievable in a short period of time. For example, let's say that you have a course in entrepreneurship and the students are preparing to make group presentations on their start-up companies. A workshop gives them the perfect platform to develop and hone their presentations as a team and then present them to the overall class as a group.

The Workshop activity icon has been redesigned and deployed in Moodle 4.0. Notice how the new design emphasizes the idea that more than one person participates...