Nash Moodle Course Design Best Practices

Design and develop outstanding Moodle learning experiences
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-78934-960-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten

Fast-paced guide for designing effective Moodle courses; experiment with Moodle's features for free using MoodleCloudKey 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nash, Susan Smith

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Webprogrammierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nash Susan Smith :

Susan Smith Nash has been developing and administering online courses for more than 20 years for both academic and professional training purposes. She earned her Bachelor's of Science, Masters of Art, and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. She has been widely published in the area of instructional design as well as in energy and economic development. Her books for Packt include Moodle E-Learning Course Development, Moodle 3.X Teaching Techniques, and Moodle Course Design Best Practices. Susan's interests include the development and promotion of new technologies and she enjoys studying films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, as well as hiking and tennis. Susan lives in Oklahoma, near her son and his family.