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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success. This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform’s new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You’ll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0’s new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world. By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting started
5
Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
14
Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators

An interaction-based instructional strategy

In Moodle, a Forum is an activity that enables participants to have asynchronous discussions over an extended period. It can also promote more inclusive learning in the case of a learner who may be reticent in a face-to-face classroom setting. They can also encourage engagement and collaboration and are a place where the instructor can be very creative. In Moodle, a Chat is an activity that allows real-time, synchronous text-based interactions. Both focus on communication among students and instructors, and they allow digital materials and direct conversations to be shared. In Moodle 4.0, the icons have been updated:

Figure 8.1 – Updated icons in Moodle 4.0

Let's consider the most effective uses of the Forum and Chat activities. 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...