Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25889 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-10
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
William Rice develops software training, user documentation, and knowledge management solutions. He lives and works in New York City. During his 15-year career he has worked with a variety of Fortune 500 clients. He specializes in training and knowledge solutions for software that supports business processes. This is his first book for Packt Publishing. He can be reached via his website at williamrice.com.

Customer Reviews

Mostly Worthless
I found this book to be little more than the help that is already included in Moodle. There are a lot of screenshots, but very few have callouts, so they're not nearly as helpful as visuals could be -- however, the images take up about half of the book. At around 230 pages, half of that screenshots, I expected more for a $40 (list) book.

Plain, clear and exhaustive
I found this book very useful, it allowed me to set up a full Moodle site and course for my training company within less than a week. Clear, easy to read, with good structure, and exhaustive - in terms that it allows one to install and setup moodle, shows multiple possibilities of creating courses and lessons, as well as good examples. Everything is written in a language just one level above a layman - which means that even a computer semi-troglodyte like me can understand even the setup part easily, and everyone can make a good course out of it. It's an example of a very well written manual.
I recommend it highly. One star less - because it is already slightly out of date. Moodle is updated monthly, and many of minor options are not described in the book - however, nothing that could not be understood and learnt by an average user. Good resource.

Great for the right need
The book is a well written solid book that has clear and fairly complete examples on using Moodle. The book is ideal for the user who has just started, or will start using Moodle to teach a course. The book doesn't cover installation or administration - and doesn't claim to. The book doesn't cover advanced educational methodologies - Moodle Teaching Techniques by the same author will.

If you are a Moodle administrator, recommend this book to your beginning instructors, but you won't need it. If you have developed a course or two, and are looking for information about features you haven't figured out, or want more clarity about how Moodle works, this book will help. If you are just starting, this book is a definite.