Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development: A Complete Guide to Successful Learning Using Moodle - Brossura

Rice, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849515263 ISBN 13: 9781849515269

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Enhance your teaching with the Moodle 2.0 E-Learning Course Development book and eBook
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.

Moodle 2.0 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. 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 and eBook guides you through meeting that challenge.

The latest edition of the ultimate introduction to Moodle 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 e learning courses, this book will prove a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle.

A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices.

Written by William Rice, this is the newest edition of the best selling introduction to Moodle book and eBook, showing you how to set up an e-learning site using the hotly-anticipated version 2.0
What you will learn from this book :
Understand, learn, discover...
Understand what Moodle can do, how it compares to other e-learning packages, and how it can support your teaching strategies
Install the Moodle software on your own computer or a server, and navigate your way around it
Discover the new features of Moodle 2.0 and how they can improve your courses
Learn about the different kinds of courses that can be created, from team-building group exercises, to individual courses that the student can work on at home
Understand all of Moodle's learning features that allow you to manage course content, interactive resources, and social activities such as forums and wikis.
Manage students so that you can ensure that the right students are going to the right classes
Allow students to enrol themselves, or invite students to join a course
Understand, use, and customize roles
Monitor how learners interact with your site using site stats
Add multimedia content to your site

Approach
Follow an example Moodle course
This book and e-book contains everything you'd expect from an introduction to Moodle: clear step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, explanations and guides through the many features and options that you have to choose from. Throughout this book and e-book you will follow an example course that will help you to explore the sort of decisions, design considerations, and thought that goes into developing a successful course.
Who this book is written for
Get the best from Moodle
This book and ebook is for anyone who wants to get the best from Moodle. Beginners to Moodle will get a thorough guide to how the software works, with great ideas for getting off to a good start with their first course. More experienced Moodle users will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.

Su questo libro

L'autore

William Rice is a software training professional who lives, works, and plays in New York City. His indoor hobbies include writing books and spending way too much time reading sites like slashdot and 43 folders. His outdoor hobbies include orienteering, rock climbing, and edible wild plants (a book on that is coming someday). William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society: how we create our tools, and how our tools in turn shape us. He is married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits, and has two amazing sons. For more updates on him and his work, you could visit his online blog: williamriceinc.blogspot.com

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849515263
• ISBN 13: 9781849515269
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 321