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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)

Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction

In the last chapter, you learned the best way to develop a course in Moodle that would be used for self-directed and self-guided students. In that case, the focus was primarily on creating a course that was very clear, self-explanatory, and easy to follow.

Now, as we turn to other types of courses, you'll find that most of the guidelines you followed in developing courses for independent study also apply to courses that are instructor-led and include groups of students who work together. The group, or the cohort, progresses together, and the advantage of having an individual instructor lies in the fact that he/she can provide guidance and personalized feedback to the students.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to best set up a cohort-based course that allows teacher-student interaction. We'll review...