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- Sprache: Englisch
Moodle 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.
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Moodle Course Design Best Practices Second Edition
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Contributors
About the author
Susan Smith Nash has designed, developed, and administered numerous online programs and courses for more than 15 years. She has experience with many different platforms and applications, with uses in higher education, training, and organizational development and leadership. Her latest books and videos are on Moodle and Canvas.
About the reviewers
Donald Schwartzhas been designing and managing Moodle since 2003. He is an expert on video e-learning course presentation and delivery to large and disparate clients. His clients include medical societies (AOA), engineering schools, a startup med-tech school, a distributed recruitment firm, and many of the ENR top 50 for their CAD software training.
Don is the Principal of VectorSpect LLC, a New Hampshire USA based e-learning consultancy.
Don has reviewed two otherPacktpublications:Gamification with Moodle and Moodle Administration Essentials.
John Walker is a licensed professional engineer and currently a full-time teacher in computer science at Cleveland High School as well as the principal engineer for Walker Engineering in Portland, OR. He is an expert on Moodle, has been using it actively since 2005, and has conducted seminars/courses on using Moodle in Oregon and across the country. John has reviewed other Packt publications: GameMaker Essentials, GameMaker Cookbook, and Moodle 3 E-Learning Cookbook.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Moodle Course Design Best Practices Second Edition
Packt Upsell
Why subscribe?
PacktPub.com
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewers
Packt is searching for authors like you
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Conventions used
Get in touch
Reviews
Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course
The advantages of Moodle
Getting started with Moodle
Preparing your Moodle workspace
Creating user accounts
Creating a new course shell
Assigning course roles
Site settings for course designers
Course format
Activating filters
Enabling completion tracking
Enabling conditional activities
Designing an effective course for student success
Summary
Planning Your Course
Learning outcomes
Cognitive psychology as applied to learning
Bloom's taxonomy
Universal design for learning
Multiple means of representation
Multiple means of access and expression
Multiple means of engagement
Selecting resources and activities
Types of assessment
Summary
Organizing Your Course
Looking at your course goals and the big picture
Aligning your course with your learning objectives
Course settings
General
Description
Course format
Structuring your instructional material using a format
The number of sections in the course
Hidden sections
Course layout
Appearance
Taking an inventory of tools and applications – Media players
Matching content and tools with student success strategies
Time management strategies
Mapping workflows for student success
Files and uploads
Completion tracking
Guest access
Groups
Role renaming
Customizing your course page
The Calendar block
Instructor/institution links
Student success links
Additional elements to customize the appearance of your course
Fonts
Images
Theme considerations
Summary
Best Practices in Content Delivery
Managing types of content and activities
Adding resources to our course
Adding course materials via Book
Adding files
Adding folders
Adding pages
Embedding presentations
Adding activities
Assignment module
Choice
Forum
Lesson
Quiz
Wiki
Using assessments to deliver content
Incorporating collaborative learning
Incorporating productivity and collaboration apps
Backing up and reusing content
Summary
Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses
Self-paced independent study
Configuring your course – Global settings
Theme selection
Activities
Quiz
Book
Badges
Calendar
Course-level configuration
Course settings
Course completion
Resources
Book
Resources
Resources – File
Resources – URL
Recording webcasts/presentations
Producing and sharing presentations
Audio only
Presentation only
Activities and assessments
Choice
Quiz
Certificates
Achievement and motivation
Summary
Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction
Characteristics of instructor-led, cohort-based courses
Benefits and limitations of cohort-based courses in Moodle
Setting up your instructor-led course – Global settings
Theme selection
Collaborative and guided webinars for cohorts
Configuring the plugins
Forum
Calendar
Course-level configuration
Course settings
Resources
Folder
Student-created files
Word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools
Activities and assessments
Assignment
Grades
Course backups for cohort-based courses
Summary
Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses
Characteristics of student-centered project-based courses
Setting up your project-based course – Global settings
Calendar
Competency-based education
Theme selection
Configuring the workshop settings
Calendar
Goal setting and motivation
Course-level configuration
Course settings
Providing resources for the course
Links to applications for projects
Audio, video, and geographical information tools
Selecting activities
Activities and assessments
Workshop
Configuring wiki
Summary
Moodle for Online Communities
Moodle and online communities
Building a knowledge-based online community
Choosing the best theme for your knowledge-based Moodle online communities
Using the best settings for knowledge-based Moodle online communities
Selecting resources and activities for a knowledge-based Moodle online community
Building a task-based online community
Choosing the best activity for your task-based Moodle online communities
Using the best settings for task-based Moodle online communities
Selecting resources and activities for a task-based Moodle online community
Building an online community based on learning and achievement
Creating a certificate course
Creating badge-generating courses
Creating a MOOC
Creating a question bank for a quiz
Building your quiz
Summary
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Preface
This book is the one place you'll find technical support, along with solid instructional design. Your Moodle courses will motivate students and help them achieve success. This book includes step-by-step guidance in creating effective courses, incorporating the content that sets you apart, and seamlessly integrating assessment. There is a focus on collaborative learning as well as self-guided, autonomous learning, complete with easy-to-develop assessments and automatically generated badges and certificates. The user will learn how to set up Moodle courses and then host and teach them at a very low cost using new cloud-based platforms and applications. This is an introductory book designed as a quick-start guide, which incorporates the fundamentals of sound instructional design and some of Moodle’s latest and greatest features.
Who this book is for
This book 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.
What this book covers
This is a quick-start guide to Moodle, a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This guide incorporates principles of instructional design to show you how to develop and deploy courses, content, and assessment. We cover MoodleCloud and provide guidance using the latest default theme, Boost. There is a special emphasis on motivation, interactivity, and competency frameworks.
Chapter 1, Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course, brings together instructional design and the latest version of Moodle, with an emphasis on cloud-based Moodle for the most affordable and easily implemented solution. You will learn how to set up new courses using the principles of instructional design and also how to build the course to motivate students using cognitive psychology.
Chapter 2, Planning Your Course, allows you to build your course around learning outcomes and shows you how to connect Bloom’s taxonomy to the design of your course content, activities, and assessment. We also focus on accessibility and cover how to develop a course using Universal Design for Learning.
Chapter 3, Organizing Your Course, guides you in building a course framework centered on learning objectives. We use the responsive theme, Boost, which is the default theme in 3.5, and we will also discuss cloud-based MoodleCloud to show you how you can experiment in the cloud for free in order to truly customize your course design. We will discuss aligning the course with learning objectives, and we will take an inventory of tools and apps in order to match them with outcomes and student success strategies.
Chapter 4, Best Practices in Content Delivery, provides guidance in managing types of content and activities using cloud-based and on-premise theme, Boost. We will learn how to manage the different types of resources and activities and also how to use assessments to deliver content. We will develop strategies for incorporating collaborative learning, and we will include productivity and collaboration apps.
Chapter 5, Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses, incorporates how to set up and launch a course with resources, activities, and assessments that can be autonomous and self-guided. We will cover the new capabilities with MoodleCloud and apps that build in rewards and motivation by encouraging engagement and completion.
Chapter 6, Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction, allows you to set up a course that includes a group of students who interact with each other. You’ll be able to select the ideal content and activities for your group of students and design the course so that it motivates and encourages them to do their best work.
Chapter 7, Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses, demonstrates how to develop collaborative courses for groups, and it provides examples of ideal activities and resources. By using a project approach, you can incorporate portfolios and also take advantage of Moodle’s flexibility by encouraging students to collaborate with videos, podcasts, graphics, animations, presentations, and more.
Chapter 8, Moodle for Online Communities, emphasizes on collaboration and mission-based activities that are often completed by groups that are working together in an organization, professional society, or not-for-profit. There may be needs for certification or a need to collaboratively train people on safety, processes, and procedures. We will cover MoodleCloud and provide guidance using the latest default theme, Boost. There is a special emphasis on motivation, interactivity, and competency frameworks.
To get the most out of this book
These are the things you’ll need to keep in mind in order to get the most out of this book:
You’ll need to be able to use basic HTML
You’ll need a good text editor, such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word
You’ll need to be able to use photo editing programs, either Cloud-based (Flickr or GIMP, for example) or installed on-premise (MS-Paint, for example)
You’ll need to be able to use cloud-based video, audio, and presentation editing and hosting apps, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, SlideShare, Screencast-o-matic, Soundcloud, in order to create content and host it on the cloud due to space limitations in Moodle
You’ll need to be able to use spreadsheet programs (Excel or Google Sheets) to import and export student records and questions to test banks in quizzes
Conventions used
There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.
CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Note the full course name in the <title> and <meta> tags. Many search engines give a lot of weight to the title tag. If your Moodle system is open to search engines, choose your course title with this in mind."
A block of code is set as follows:
<head> <title>Course: Non-Surgical Anti-Aging Services </title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://localhost/moodle/theme/image.php/standard/theme/1359480837/favicon" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="keywords" content="moodle, Course: Non-Surgical Anti- Aging Services" />
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
<head> <title>Course: Non-Surgical Anti-Aging Services </title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://localhost/moodle/theme/image.php/standard/theme/1359480837/favicon" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="keywords" content="moodle, Course: Non-Surgical Anti- Aging Services" />
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
$ git clone -b MOODLE_{{Version3}}_STABLE git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git
Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "To use conditional activities, your system administrator must enable the feature Enable conditional access under Site administration | Advanced Features."
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Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course
So, you would like to build a great Moodle course? Or maybe improve the one you have? You've come to the right place. We want to help you take full advantage of all that Moodle has to offer, while creating more engaging and user-friendly experiences for your learners. At the same time, we want to make sure that you're not working harder than you need to be. We'll help you avoid doing things the hard way and focus your efforts so you're spending time where it will have the most impact.
Before going any further, please keep in mind that the main goal of this book is to help you incorporate instructional design principles in your Moodle courses. This is not a Moodle cookbook, or one that includes exhaustive step-by-step instructions.
Well-designed Moodle courses encompass much more than what happens in the course shell. The course design process begins with an optimally configured Moodle site and an understanding of the opportunities afforded by the Moodle platform.
In this chapter, we'll discuss the following:
The advantages of Moodle from the perspective of a course designer
Resources available to support you as you set up your Moodle site
Site settings needed to implement the ideas presented later in the book
The advantages of Moodle
We'll start with the question, "Why Moodle?" What does it have to offer course designers, trainers, and educators? First and foremost, as educators ourselves, we can say that the fact that Moodle is built around an instructional ideal or educational philosophy makes it pretty exceptional. More specifically, Moodle's design is driven by a social constructionist pedagogy as inspired by educational theorists such as Vygotsky, Papert, and others. Social constructionism is a view of education that relies on the belief that people create knowledge through the process of constructing artifacts, including text, media, or other such projects, within a social environment. In short, this means that the creator of Moodle, Martin Dougiamas, built Moodle based on the idea that people learn best when they have an opportunity to construct, share, collaborate, and learn with others. As we discuss Moodle's features, we'll see many ways in which this philosophy is exhibited.
In today's world of distributed communication, where people connect with each other through their mobile devices and use social media to communicate and collaborate, the original Moodle foundation of social constructionism makes more sense than ever.
