Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

Creative ways to build powerful and effective online courses

Key Features

• Motivate students from all backgrounds, generations, and learning styles
• When and how to apply the different learning solutions with workarounds, providing alternative solutions
• Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions with screenshots and examples for Moodle's powerful features
• Especially suitable for university and professional teachers

Book Description

What you will learn

• Build a learning outcome-focused approach that enables your students to perform well
• Different techniques for creating a dynamic learning environment
• Put all the ideas you ve wanted to implement, but never could, into action to create unique courses with reusable elements
• Motivate your students to collaborate and demonstrate what they are learning and to create projects together
• Develop materials you can re-use in your future courses
• Incorporate Web 2.0 features to encourage student sharing of resources
• Create online workshops and galleries for your students to make presentations about what they have learned
• Build e-portfolios for students to collect their work and demonstrate mastery of the units
• Engage your students in team work that helps them connect course content with their experiences and prior learning
• Feel confident in finding ways to accommodate your students learning styles and preferences to guide them to a successful outcome for the course
• Develop high-quality courses that will last and stay useful and relevant to create a personal inventory you can use and re-use

Who this book is for

If you want to unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses that really get students moving forward, then this book is for you. Experienced Moodlers who want to upgrade to Moodle 1.9 will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.