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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the resources that are available in Moodle. They are non-interactive course materials (books, pages, URLs, files, and labels) that form the core of most online courses.

Adding static material first gives you a chance to think about how the material will be discussed and used. Later, you can add more dynamic resources, and make connections to the course objectives and the assessments. The intent of Moodle 4.0 is to enhance your learning experience, as well as giving you more opportunities to deploy resources in ways that trigger thoughts and connections to the learning objectives and course goals, and help you demonstrate mastery.

What we emphasized in this chapter was the importance of selecting, sequencing, and deploying resources so that they always advance the goals of the course and help students meet their learning objectives. We also discussed how to incorporate current practices that include blended asynchronous/synchronous delivery...