Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

Designing an effective course for student success

It's easy to get lost in the novelty of new apps, multimedia, and ways of creating assessments. To do so takes us far away from the purpose of education and training, which is to be able to demonstrate the achievement of learning objectives. So, the prime directive, the key organizing principle in all educational programs, needs to be the course learning objectives or outcomes.

Focusing on learning outcomes makes our task clear, simple, and enjoyable. As we move through this book and the steps for creating a highly effective Moodle course, we will be constantly referring back to the learning objectives that we identified at the beginning, and we will then map these to our instructional material ...