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Moodle Course Design Best Practices: Design and develop outstanding Moodle learning experiences , Second Edition

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Moodle Course Design Best Practices

Planning Your Course

In the previous chapter, we reviewed the basics of Moodle and learned how to get started with site-wide settings and configurations. Now we will take a step back and review the basics of pedagogy and instructional design. They are important as you set up your educational programs and build courses in Moodle. If you fail to take pedagogy and instructional design into consideration early in the process, you run the risk of having to rebuild your courses later, which can be very tedious, time consuming, and expensive (in terms of labor). So, it's a great idea to bookmark this chapter and return to it often, each time you begin to develop a new program, course template, demo course, or individual courses.

Let's start with a fundamental question: what would you like your students to be able to do after they complete your course?

It sounds like a simple...

Learning outcomes

One of the best ways to start planning your course is by thinking about what you'd like your students to be able to do when they successfully complete it. At the same time, it is good to envision how they should demonstrate their new knowledge or skill. What your students are able to do as a result of taking the course are the learning outcomes of the course. Both terms refer to the notion of a course, that is, they focus not just on the content to be covered, but also on the skills, abilities, beliefs, and attitudes that result upon completion of the course.

It is important to place your learning objectives on your course's front page so that they are constantly in the mind of your students. Here is an example from the course, Trends in Tourism. Notice how the learning objectives appear on the front page, and they are accompanied by a photo to help...

Universal design for learning

Before we start to expand the course, we recommend that you take a moment to plan your course so that it complies with standards and recommendations that have been set to accommodate students' diverse needs and abilities. To do so, we will follow what is referred to as the UDL, which are guidelines that assure accessibility services for individuals with disabilities.

In this section, we will look at legal requirements but keep in mind that the UDL has its roots in ethics, human dignity, and the belief that all individuals deserve to have access to education.

However, in returning to legal frameworks that assure accessibility services to individuals who may have disability issues, let's remember that we must comply with the laws and regulations that have been enacted to provide equal access to them. In the United States, the Americans with...

Selecting resources and activities

Let's return to our course. Now that you can write effective learning outcomes and have used them to build your course framework, which is structured around topics, let's return to adding resources and activities and let's look at matching learning activities with resources and activities.

Let's return to Topic 1: New Definitions of Tourism. Let's say that we want to start by adding content that helps define tourism. What might that include? Here are our options from the pull-down menu that says Add a resource. Note that there is another pull-down menu next to it that says Add an activity. Keep in mind that we are using the Boost theme and that there may be slight variations with other themes:

Adding a resource

So, we could choose to add a file which consists of an article with examples of tourism. Or we could create...

Types of assessment

Moodle provides a wide array of options as you determine the best way to let your students demonstrate that they have achieved the knowledge, skills, and abilities that the learning outcomes have defined.

If you've kept in mind the key questions, "What do I want my students to do?" and "How will they show their skills, knowledge, attitudes, and abilities?", you will find that it will be much easier to develop the appropriate assessment strategy. The following are a few guidelines:

  • Make sure that each topic's assessment ties directly to the learning outcome for that particular topic. Your assessment should be of sufficient complexity to allow your students to demonstrate that they have achieved the learning outcome.
  • Each of your resources and activities need to connect both to the learning outcome, as well as the assessment.
  • Try...

Summary

In this chapter, we've learned the best way to write learning outcomes for your course and use them to shape the structure of your course and select resources, activities, and assessments. We explained how and why following the UDL enables students with disabilities to take and succeed in the courses, while also complying with legally mandated regulations. We have also reviewed how those learning outcomes (and objectives) affect the selection of resources and activities in your course. In addition, we have described how the type of assessments you use throughout your course will help demonstrate the student's mastery/achievement in the course.

In the next chapter, we will guide you through organizing your course. We'll take a close look at how best to match the organization of your course with the overall purpose of the course, and the types of students...

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Key benefits

  • 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

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If 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.

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

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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Planning Your Course Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Organizing Your Course Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Best Practices in Content Delivery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing Self-Paced Independent Study Courses Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Developing Cohort-Based Courses with Teacher-Student Interaction Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Student-Centered Project-Based Courses Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Moodle for Online Communities Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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