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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.
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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 43folders. 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: http://williamriceinc.blogspot.com
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an independent maths tutor I wanted to investigate on-line learning for the 2007-2008 academic year. Moodle was the obvious choice for a VLE and I came across this excellent little book completely by chance. I found the examples incredibly useful in helping me design my courses - especially the detailed screenshots (although the text sometimes misses out explaining how the layout shown in the screen shots is achieved - hence 4 stars instead of 5). If you are a Moodle newbie then this is well worth considering.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Despite its claim to being a 'complete guide' this book is little more than a general overview for Moodle users. An excellent general introduction, it provides little in the way of practical guidance for someone setting up a Moodle site from scratch. The book is especially disappointing on the details of configuring a new site and making sense of the databases that underpin the system. Prospective administrators would be better combing the excellent Moodle internet site, downloading the available documents and finding answers to technical questions on the forums.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a little wary of any book that talks about online learning tools, as I'd like to think that if the tools are any good, then I really should be using the tools themselves to learn. Having said that, I actually learn best from books (although that may well be down to the quality of the tools available) so the idea of a book that shows me how to get the best from Moodle was worth a read.
This book is a good introduction to the whole Moodle and E-Learning concept, and contains a lot of useful instruction and ideas as to how to get the best out of it. It provides good explanations of the main tools available to Moodle users, and identifies a number of problem areas that users are likely to struggle with, so will undoubtedly save readers a lot of time.
Where the book was less useful for me is that it focusses heavily on an academic environment, and is less easy to translate into how the tool could be used effectively in a corporate environment, which is my area of interest. I'm aware that the academic environemt is where Moodle is heavily used, but the book claims that it's written for "a teacher or a corporate trainer" and I found it less useful from a corporate perspective.
If you learn best away from a computer screen, or want a guide you can read in the bath (or anywhere else of course) then this will be a really useful book. If that's not you, then you'll find better resources online.
This book is a good introduction to the whole Moodle and E-Learning concept, and contains a lot of useful instruction and ideas as to how to get the best out of it. It provides good explanations of the main tools available to Moodle users, and identifies a number of problem areas that users are likely to struggle with, so will undoubtedly save readers a lot of time.
Where the book was less useful for me is that it focusses heavily on an academic environment, and is less easy to translate into how the tool could be used effectively in a corporate environment, which is my area of interest. I'm aware that the academic environemt is where Moodle is heavily used, but the book claims that it's written for "a teacher or a corporate trainer" and I found it less useful from a corporate perspective.
If you learn best away from a computer screen, or want a guide you can read in the bath (or anywhere else of course) then this will be a really useful book. If that's not you, then you'll find better resources online.
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