Moodle E-Learning Course Development: A Complete Guide to Create and Develop e-Learing Courses With Moodle - Couverture souple

Rice, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782163344 ISBN 13 : 9781782163343

Editeur : Packt Pub Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices. This unique book gives you more than just a guide to the Moodle software; it uses Moodle as a route to better teaching, more motivated students, and more successful courses. Moodle E-Learning Course Development shows you how to use Moodle as a tool to enhance your teaching. It will help you analyse your students' requirements, and come to an understanding of what Moodle can do for them. After that you'll see how to use every feature of Moodle to meet your course goals. The social constructionist learning philosophy is at the heart of Moodle: we all "construct" knowledge through interation with one another and with learning materials in a social way. Moodle E-Learning Course Develelopment will show you how to add static learning material, interactive activities, and social features to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance learning courses, this book will prove a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A complete guide to create and develop engaging e-learning courses with Moodle

About This Book

• Get to grips with the new features of Moodle 2.8
• Successfully configure site settings, set up the front page, create user accounts, and create courses.
• Follow an example course that will help you to explore the decisions, design considerations, and thought that goes into developing a successful course.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone who wants to get the best out of Moodle. Experienced Moodle users will find powerful insights into developing successful educational courses.

What You Will Learn

• Understand what Moodle can do, how it compares to other e-learning packages, and how it can support your teaching strategies
• Build an interactive e-learning course
• Install the Moodle software on your own computer or a server, and navigate your way around it
• Gain experience in creating different kinds of courses, from team-building group exercises, to individual courses that a student can work on at home
• Manage students so that you can ensure that the right students are going to the right classes
• Understand, use, and customize roles
• Monitor how learners interact with your site using site statistics
• Add multimedia content to your site

In Detail

Moodle is the leading open source e-learning management system. Using Moodle, teachers and professors can easily construct richly-textured web-based courses. A course can consist of a number of lessons, with each lesson including reading materials; activities such as quizzes, tests, surveys, and projects; and social elements that encourage interaction and group work between students.

Packed with clear step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, and thorough explanations, this book guides you through the many features and options that you have to choose from when using Moodle 2.8. Throughout this book, you will follow an example course that will help you to explore the sort of decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that goes into developing a successful course.

This book will show you how to use every feature of Moodle to meet your course goals. Moodle is relatively easy to install and use, but the real challenge is to develop a learning process that leverages its power and maps effectively onto the content-established learning situation. This book guides you through meeting that challenge.

Biographie de l'auteur

William Rice

William Rice is an e-learning professional who lives, works, and plays in New York City. He has authored books based on Moodle, Blackboard, Magento, and software training. William enjoys building e-learning solutions for small and midsized businesses. He gains professional satisfaction when his courses help students and make their work easier and more productive. His indoor hobbies include writing books and spending time reading at http://slashdot.org/. His outdoor hobbies include practicing archery within sight of JFK Airport and playing with his children. William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society, how we create our tools, and how our tools shape us in turn. He is married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits. William has two amazing sons. You can reach William on his website at http://williamrice.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Pub Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782163344
• ISBN 13: 9781782163343
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible