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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

A forum-based instructional strategy


As you review your learning objectives and seek to map the course materials with the course activities, think about how you can make your course structured around forums and chats.

It may seem hard to envision at first, but in practice it's actually quite simple. As you set up your course, ensure that you include a forum in each of your units. Then you can use the forum for the following purposes:

  • Making instructional materials available. The advantage of having them in the forum is that you can let the instructors comment and add more materials, commentary, and so on.
  • Asking instructional materials-focused discussion questions. The students can read the materials and immediately comment and share their impressions.
  • Posts of drafts and peer reviews. This is a great place to post drafts of papers or comments, and then solicit responses and peer reviews from students.
  • Post rubrics, both for peer reviews and final grading.
  • Post current controversies, links to...