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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Many people will recognize Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used in schools to teach lessons and organize student information. Fewer people will realize that Moodle can be used in businesses to dispense training, share important documents, and encourage teamwork. Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide will show you how to set up Moodle in your corporation. By introducing a system within your company that will allow for a centralized, accessible repository of knowledge, staff training will become a lot more streamlined, and the retention of skills will improve, leading to huge productivity benefits. An easy-to-access, user-friendly system is crucial to keep communication flowing in any successful business. By putting your H.R. documents, newsletters, discussions, and training documents all in one place, which is accessible from the office or from home, you are giving your employees all the information that they need to be productive and become integrated members of your company. This book will show you how to get your important business documents online, as well as the recruitment and training processes. You will learn how to move any existing processes to Moodle, as well as set up new ones that will have you wondering what you did before Moodle came along!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Chad Outten has worked as an educator and technologist for more than a dozen years in diverse roles and settings in Australia. He is the Company Director at My Learning Space (www.mylearningspace.com.au), an Australian e-learning solutions provider specializing in expert Consultancy, Hosting, Training, and Support services for learning management systems. They work with numerous organizations in the corporate, education, government, and not-for-profit sectors. Their clients include eBay, Shell, Rip Curl, Queensland Health, and Department of Human Services NSW.

Chad is an active member of the Moodle Community. This includes involvement in the Particularly Helpful Moodlers, and Quality Assurance Testers groups. He was involved as a Moodle certified teacher, mentor, and assessor as part of the internationally recognized Moodle Teacher Certification program. He also organized the Australian Moodle Moot in 2008.

Jordi Piguillem is a Computer Software Engineer by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. During the last five years, he has been collaborating on several Moodle projects as a programmer and as a software designer. During Summer '08, he had been working in Google Summer of Code initiative, where he had been developing an IMS LTI compliant client for Moodle. Nowadays, he is working on his PhD about integration of information systems. Due to this research job, he has co-authored several papers about software and service engineering, ubiquitous learning, among other things and collaborated in some books about Moodle and Google App Engine.

Mary Cooch (known online as @moodlefairy) is a teacher and VLE trainer based in the UK. She is the author of Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds and Moodle 2.0 First Look also published by Packt. She blogs at www.moodleblog.org and can be contacted for consultation on . Mary will go anywhere to help you Moodle!