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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

Assessment and your learning objectives


As you select your assessments, make sure that you cover all your learning objectives. It is often very helpful to map your assessments to your learning objectives. The sequence is often very important as well. Start with the first learning objective that you have listed and then map it to an assessment. Move down the list through all your learning objectives and make sure that you have an assessment that corresponds to each one. As you are mapping the assessments, also be sure that the difficulty level is appropriate. For example, if you require students to identify key terms, a multiple choice quiz could be appropriate. If you are asking them to create a plan, an essay or a collaborative activity such as a group project done in Workshop could work.