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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

Learning objectives

We mentioned learning objectives at a high level earlier in this book. Now, we will look at how to apply the concept as we focus on activities. The learning objectives you select should clearly and concisely express the performative outcomes of your course. They will appear in the syllabus as well. Keep in mind that effective learning objectives use action verbs that tie to Bloom's Taxonomy, and they result in actions that are measurable and tie directly to the course unit or the entire course. Bloom's Taxonomy is arranged as a hierarchy, with the more fundamental outcomes such as Identify forming at the base and more complex and abstract ones such as Create at the top. Think of the different levels of the hierarchy as building blocks.

You can use the following process to write learning objectives:

  1. Identify what you want the learner to be able to do.
  2. Identify the level of knowledge of Bloom's Taxonomy.
  3. Select a verb that ties to...