Susan Smith Nash - Moodle Course Design Best Practices: Design and develop outstanding Moodle learning experiences

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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 .

Donald Schwartz has 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 other Packt publications: 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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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 Moodles latest and greatest features.

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.

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.

, 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.

, Planning Your Course, allows you to build your course around learning outcomes and shows you how to connect Blooms 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.