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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

Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum

In this book, you learn much more than simply how to set up resources and activities. You learn how to select the resources and activities that are the best fit for your course goals, the unique needs of the learners, and a unique blend of on-demand, "live," or blended delivery.

At each step, we use solid instructional design principles to guide along the way and create an ideal blend of interaction, engaging course content, and activities to help students review their knowledge and then demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

After you have completed Part 2, you will be able to use your course design plan to build courses that incorporate Moodle's activities and resources as well as the new functionality of Moodle 4.0. You will be able to use the flexibility of Moodle to incorporate content that engages students, accommodates all kinds of learners, and allows multiple methods of delivery. You'll also be able to add activities...