Chapter 1. Developing an Effective Online Course

Welcome to Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques! Moodle offers teachers and course designers a toolbox full of online teaching tools. This book shows you how to use those tools to create effective learning solutions. These learning solutions are based on proven, accepted instructional principles and best practices for online courses and traditional classroom activities.

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS) that is used to produce web-based courses. It is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), which means that you are free to use, modify, and redistribute it as long as you:

Under these conditions, thousands of developers have contributed features and functionality to Moodle. The result is the world's most popular, free, and feature-packed course management system, which is also an online learning system. Its flexibility makes it ideal for learning that is delivered by many different organizations, including schools, colleges, universities, corporate and association training, and professional development.