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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Overview of this book

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Planning based on your institution's mission and vision


Many learning organizations offer similar courses, yet their students report remarkably different experiences and outcomes. How can that be, if the content is identical? The reality is that your course content is just a part of the learning equation. A large component has to do with how the content is framed, contextualized, and then applied. Each ties to the primary mission and vision of your organization.

As your organization decides what it wants to be in the world, and how it wants to make an impact, it must devise its primary mission, that is, the how we will do it component to the overarching what our ideal world looks like question. If you think this sounds a bit utopian, you are right. It does; it is. The best learning organizations want to create a better world, even if that utopia will never actually exist in the real world, and, to get there, they need to determine action steps, which translate to a mission implemented by...