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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle, the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS) has released several new features and enhancements in its latest 3.0 release. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses that run on a wide range of platforms including mobile and cloud. Beginning with developing an effective online course, you will write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy and list the kinds of instructional materials that will work given one's goal. You will gradually move on to setting up different types of forums for discussions and incorporating multi-media from cloud-base sources. You will then focus on developing effective timed tests, self-scoring quizzes while organizing the content, building different lessons, and incorporating assessments. Lastly, you will dive into more advanced topics such as creating interactive templates for a full course by focussing on creating each element and create workshops and portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
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Preface

Guiding and motivating students


The best online courses create learning communities in which all learners have a sense that they are part of a friendly, supportive group. They eagerly post in the forums and they respond to each other quickly in a positive and productive way. They share their thoughts and impressions and you start to feel as though people are really getting to know each other. Learning is fun, even exhilarating. Some students can't wait to log on and participate.

Moodle 3.0 encourages productive interaction and collaboration and it becomes easy to share information that humanizes the learning space. For example, you can very easily use your smartphone to video a few introductory thoughts and then upload it directly to YouTube. You can then embed the post (which will include a small image/screen-capture for your video). If your videos are less than 2 minutes in length, you'll engage your students and also encourage them to share thoughts and ideas.

Creating the learning environment...