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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
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Use an ungraded Lesson to generate materials and strategies for real-world applications


You may consider Moodle as a platform for schools, colleges, or universities. But, it's often a very good place to bring together teams in a business, not-for-profit organization, or small enterprise. For example, let's think of the case of a group that has come together for the promotion of tourism. It's easy to create a Lesson that directs learners through different activities so that, at the end of the course, they've learned how to research their potential market and have developed a marketing plan for promoting their town, community, or specific historical or natural resource.

For example, in this course, one of the learning objectives is to identify activities that could attract unique groups of tourists, especially those who are passionate and loyal. So we can set up content pages that allow students to move through them.

As we add the page, we can also make sure that we automatically guide the...