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Moodle Course Design Best Practices
Learn the best practices to design and develop interactive and highly effective Moodle courses
Overview
Explore Moodle's course development features like themes, social media plugins and archiving content
Bring together instructional materials, social interaction, and student management functions in your courses
An easy-to-follow guide to help you create or update your Moodle course
In Detail
Moodle Course Design Best Practices is a practical guide that will teach you how to use the tools available in Moodle to develop unique courses for many kinds of organizations.
You will be able to utilize the themes that have been contributed by developers. You can incorporate many different types of course materials and interactive assessments. You will also learn how to modify the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments to create courses for individual use, cohorts, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The use of the various multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book.
What you will learn from this book
Set up a template for a series of courses
Design the appearance of your course
Manage the resources and activities of your course
Organize your course content effectively
Set up instructional materials for your course
Select and set up assessments
Include effective instructional strategies in your course
Archive your course content for reuse
Approach
This book is an easy-to-follow guide with a hands-on approach that will help you learn the best practices for designing attractive and highly interactive courses with the help of Moodle.
Who this book is written for
This book can be used by training managers, teachers, instructors, Moodle administrators, instructional technologists, instructional designers, and e- learning entrepreneurs.
If you are looking for a very easy and convenient way to organize learning activities along with group projects and activities, then this book is for you. Some prior experience with Moodle would be helpful, and it would also be helpful if you understand the basics of using HTML and how to work with different multimedia fi le formats and social media.
Overview
Explore Moodle's course development features like themes, social media plugins and archiving content
Bring together instructional materials, social interaction, and student management functions in your courses
An easy-to-follow guide to help you create or update your Moodle course
In Detail
Moodle Course Design Best Practices is a practical guide that will teach you how to use the tools available in Moodle to develop unique courses for many kinds of organizations.
You will be able to utilize the themes that have been contributed by developers. You can incorporate many different types of course materials and interactive assessments. You will also learn how to modify the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments to create courses for individual use, cohorts, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The use of the various multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book.
What you will learn from this book
Set up a template for a series of courses
Design the appearance of your course
Manage the resources and activities of your course
Organize your course content effectively
Set up instructional materials for your course
Select and set up assessments
Include effective instructional strategies in your course
Archive your course content for reuse
Approach
This book is an easy-to-follow guide with a hands-on approach that will help you learn the best practices for designing attractive and highly interactive courses with the help of Moodle.
Who this book is written for
This book can be used by training managers, teachers, instructors, Moodle administrators, instructional technologists, instructional designers, and e- learning entrepreneurs.
If you are looking for a very easy and convenient way to organize learning activities along with group projects and activities, then this book is for you. Some prior experience with Moodle would be helpful, and it would also be helpful if you understand the basics of using HTML and how to work with different multimedia fi le formats and social media.
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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July 16, 2014
This book falls into two main parts. The first deals with general issues such as preparation, planning and configuration of Moodle sites. These sections give a broad brush overview of the software, introducing the major features without overload on specific issues. Readers are often referred back to the relevant Moodle documentation for the detail.
The importance of planning course outcomes is stressed with some excellent strategies for courses structure and learner assessment. Bloom’s taxonomy gets good coverage and UDL is also described.
There is useful guidance on how to efficiently use the range of features in course configuration. Some sections, such as those on groups and groupings may be too brief to be fully useful. Some aspects of themes and usability are also mentioned.
In the second section a range of course types are discussed in the context of a Moodle implementation – these are self-paced independent study courses, cohort-based teacher-led courses, student-centred project-based courses and online community courses. For each course attention is paid to appropriate course settings, themes and usability, resources and activities which are most appropriate for the different types of learner.
Although the book is said to be suitable for a wide range of teachers, the audience most likely to benefit are educators new to online learning in general and Moodle in particular. It could be an excellent overview for managers who know little about Learning Management Systems in general and those who might be considering an implementation in their organisation.
For this audience this book should be regarded as a very useful framework – it certainly won’t be the only book you want.
Experienced Moodle teachers and administrators may not find all that much of relevance however unless they are also new to the field of eLearning pedagogy and design.
The book’s format and frequent links to web resources mean that it works better as an eBook than a print publication.
The importance of planning course outcomes is stressed with some excellent strategies for courses structure and learner assessment. Bloom’s taxonomy gets good coverage and UDL is also described.
There is useful guidance on how to efficiently use the range of features in course configuration. Some sections, such as those on groups and groupings may be too brief to be fully useful. Some aspects of themes and usability are also mentioned.
In the second section a range of course types are discussed in the context of a Moodle implementation – these are self-paced independent study courses, cohort-based teacher-led courses, student-centred project-based courses and online community courses. For each course attention is paid to appropriate course settings, themes and usability, resources and activities which are most appropriate for the different types of learner.
Although the book is said to be suitable for a wide range of teachers, the audience most likely to benefit are educators new to online learning in general and Moodle in particular. It could be an excellent overview for managers who know little about Learning Management Systems in general and those who might be considering an implementation in their organisation.
For this audience this book should be regarded as a very useful framework – it certainly won’t be the only book you want.
Experienced Moodle teachers and administrators may not find all that much of relevance however unless they are also new to the field of eLearning pedagogy and design.
The book’s format and frequent links to web resources mean that it works better as an eBook than a print publication.
June 30, 2014
Moodle Course Design Best Practices
is for people deliberating creating a course with Moodle. This book is a step-by-step guide all the aspects related to setting up an online course. Such a course would make use of multimedia learning materials and interactive quizzes. The course can be self-paced, involving a group with a dedicated teacher or even a Massive Online Course.
"Moodle Course Design Best Practices" explains how to use Moodle features, including gamification features and certificates. The book is clearly targeted towards instructors, who are not necessarily very technical. Quite a lot of attention is given to pedagogical theory. Although "Moodle Course Design Best Practices" is not a very technical book, I enjoyed reading it. The number of pages wouldn't have been enough to cover the technical details anyway. The authors give links to the Moodle docs quite often, so topics like installing Moodle are skipped.
is for people deliberating creating a course with Moodle. This book is a step-by-step guide all the aspects related to setting up an online course. Such a course would make use of multimedia learning materials and interactive quizzes. The course can be self-paced, involving a group with a dedicated teacher or even a Massive Online Course.
"Moodle Course Design Best Practices" explains how to use Moodle features, including gamification features and certificates. The book is clearly targeted towards instructors, who are not necessarily very technical. Quite a lot of attention is given to pedagogical theory. Although "Moodle Course Design Best Practices" is not a very technical book, I enjoyed reading it. The number of pages wouldn't have been enough to cover the technical details anyway. The authors give links to the Moodle docs quite often, so topics like installing Moodle are skipped.
August 5, 2016
This is a great “one stop shopping” for Moodle – there are many aspects that make this book surprisingly useful. The things you’d expect to be there are all covered – settings, planning your course, how to add content and activities. The book is organized around the way that you might want to use the course (schools with multiple sections of instructor-led courses, training organizations where everything is automated, a professional society providing licensing updates with assessments at the end). It also gives a bit of theory and also talks about very important legal aspects (ADA / universal design) that need to be considered, but are often an afterthought.
One caveat -- it’s Moodle 2.6, so it may not be very helpful if you’re still running 1.9. That said, if you’re still using 1.9, please think about updating. You’ll be glad you did.
One caveat -- it’s Moodle 2.6, so it may not be very helpful if you’re still running 1.9. That said, if you’re still using 1.9, please think about updating. You’ll be glad you did.
May 30, 2014
Moodle Course Design Best Practices
Excellent guide for getting setup and using Moodle, the design of the template suited my needs just fine for learning and I am comfortable with tweaking it to make it my own. This book delivered on every level, my favorite part of the book was the student-teacher interaction setup. It seemed like it would sell the course much more because you are now charging for the time to interact with students so the price can go up accordingly, nothing crazy though. I enjoyed the flow of the book as well, it started out with design and kept going, not skipping a beat. I highly recommend this book if you want to setup a proper course that will attract a student base.
Check it out here: http://www.packtpub.com/moodle-course...
Excellent guide for getting setup and using Moodle, the design of the template suited my needs just fine for learning and I am comfortable with tweaking it to make it my own. This book delivered on every level, my favorite part of the book was the student-teacher interaction setup. It seemed like it would sell the course much more because you are now charging for the time to interact with students so the price can go up accordingly, nothing crazy though. I enjoyed the flow of the book as well, it started out with design and kept going, not skipping a beat. I highly recommend this book if you want to setup a proper course that will attract a student base.
Check it out here: http://www.packtpub.com/moodle-course...
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