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Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever. This book will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book. Our goal is to encourage creativity, and the free MoodleCloud hosting option is an ideal place for teachers, students, trainers, and administrators to jump in and play with all the new features, which include powerful new plug-ins, new resources, and activities. Moodle can be your sandbox as well as your castle of learning! With this book, you will build learning experiences that will last your learners’ lifetimes.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we've learned the best way to write learning outcomes for your course and use them to shape the structure of your course and select resources, activities, and assessments. We explained how and why following the UDL enables students with disabilities to take and succeed in the courses, while also complying with legally mandated regulations. We have also reviewed how those learning outcomes (and objectives) affect the selection of resources and activities in your course. In addition, we have described how the type of assessments you use throughout your course will help demonstrate the student's mastery/achievement in the course.

In the next chapter, we will guide you through organizing your course. We'll take a close look at how best to match the organization of your course with the overall purpose of the course, and the types of students...