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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 develop and configure your course for instructor-led cohorts, which are the most commonly found online courses at colleges and universities. We chose cohort-based courses because they are very popular when students are working together on a topic that requires time to develop skills and knowledge. Cohort-based courses are often very useful in a corporation or training organization because they involve individuals who may be working together in teams or across the organization.

We've learned how to configure global settings so that your courses can maintain clarity with respect to what students must study and achieve. We've also looked at how to configure the settings so that your instructors are able to communicate in a number of different ways, given that students may have different social networking preferences...