Moodle Course Design Best Practices

Design and develop outstanding Moodle learning experiences, 2nd Edition

Susan Smith Nash (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2018 | 2nd Revised edition
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
9781789348606 (ISBN)

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Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply these to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever.

Fast-paced guide for designing effective Moodle courses; experiment with Moodle’s features for free using MoodleCloud

Key Features

Apply principles of instructional design to create great Moodle learning experiences
Enhance collaboration and spur creativity with Moodle
Bring together instructional materials, social interaction, and student management functions in your courses

Book DescriptionMoodle 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.

What you will learn

Build a course structure that fits your goals
Design a unique appearance
Manage the resources and activities
Tips for better organization of your course content
Select and set up assessments
Include effective instructional strategies
Incorporate competency frameworks
Run and archive webinars
Motivate learners by incorporating badges
Explore MoodleCloud

Who this book is forIf you create courses with Moodle, this book is for you. It can be used by teachers, instructors, training managers, Moodle administrators, instructional technologists, instructional designers, and e-learning entrepreneurs. Prior experience with Moodle will be helpful.

Susan Smith Nash has designed, developed, and administered numerous online programs and courses for more than 15 years. She has experience with many different platforms and applications, with uses in higher education, training, and organizational development and leadership. Her latest books and videos are on Moodle and Canvas.

Table of Contents

Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course
Planning Your Course
Organizing Your Course
Best Practices in Content Delivery
Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses
Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction
Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses
Moodle for Online Communities

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2018
Verlagsort	Birmingham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	75 x 93 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
ISBN-13	9781789348606 / 9781789348606
Zustand	Neuware