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.