Product Description

This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course. This book is for teachers, tutors, and lecturers who already have a large body of teaching material and want to use Moodle to enhance their courses, rather than developing brand new ones. You won't need experience with Moodle, but will need teacher access to a ready installed Moodle site. Teachers with some experience of Moodle, who want to focus on incorporating existing course materials will also find this book very useful.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #273969 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 316 pages

About the Author
A physicist by profession, Ian's career has always focused primarily on communication and learning. Fifteen years spent in private industry designing communication systems software eventually saw Ian concentrate on the development of accessibility and learning aids for blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, and dyscalculic computer users – whilst also working part-time as a math and science tutor. Teaching only part-time meant not spending as much time with his students as he would have wanted. This and his background in learning and communication technology seeded his interest in virtual learning environments.

Customer Reviews

Moodle Course Conversion - a new approach
I have read quite a few books aimed at the new Moodler and this book stands out from the rest. The book assumes absolutely no prior knowledge or experience of Moodle and the introductory pages clearly set out what is covered, who the book is aimed at and why the reader should consider using Moodle in their professional practice. The book follows a logical sequence to develop the reader's understanding of Moodle, its facilities and how to use them to deliver the reader's course materials in an engaging manner.

The author introduces each new step in creating a course within Moodle by describing the steps to develop a real Moodle course that he actually uses himself in his own teaching practice from resources that a teacher or lecturer would typically already be using. The basic course is then enhanced by using Moodle's facilities to support multi-media delivery, on-line assessments to aid the learning process and engaging learners via on-line communication and collaborative group work.

Lastly, the writing style of the author is very engaging which, together with the content of the book, makes for an enjoyable introduction to becoming a proficient Moodler.