Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development: The definitive guide to creating great courses in Moodle 4.0 using instructional design principles, 5th Edition

by Susan Smith Nash

Leverage Moodle 4.0's improved UX features and new tools to create effective courses in today's competitive world of online learning, including blended live and on-demand delivery 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. This book is for novice as well as experienced course developers who want to incorporate Moodle 4.0's powerful features and make life easier for students, instructors, and administrators. The powerful and flexible Moodle platform will also help with accreditation and for deploying across devices to people in diverse situations.

436 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2022

Reviews

[Susan Nash · Rating 5 out of 5]

What makes this different from other guides to Moodle is that it takes you through the process of storyboarding and mapping your course, and then helps you put in all the unique aspects that will keep your learners truly engaged and on track to succeed.

The other big "plus" is that it shows you the tools you need to start your own self-paced and fully automated course business. You don't have to use Udemy. Just host everything yourself and set things up so people can automatically register, pay, take the quizzes, and generate certificates, then have the certificates archived with the issuing organization!

[Dimitri · Rating 5 out of 5]

📕 Why (Not) to read this book (Target Audience)

When you are creating courses in moodle then this book will help you better understand the options.

👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) seeks to make learning possible for all learners, and it utilizes three different core areas – emotions, cognition, and physicality.

⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)

Cohorts enable administrators to enroll and unenroll students en masse, whereas groups enable teachers to manage students during a class.