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Using Moodle

By Jason Cole
First Edition July 2005
Pages: 238
ISBN 10: 0-596-00863-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596008635
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Developed by an extremely active open source community, Moodle is a sophisticated course management system that's ideal for creating dynamic online learning communities and for supplementing face-to-face learning. For anyone who is using-or thinking of using-this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.
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Developed by an extremely active open source community, Moodle is a sophisticated course management system that's ideal for creating dynamic online learning communities and for supplementing face-to-face learning. Used in more than 115 countries and supporting over 60 languages, Moodle can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000- student university. Teachers who use Moodle have access to an array of powerful tools such as assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. Using Moodle is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that explains how the system works, with plenty of examples and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Authored by a member of the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little-known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users. For anyone who is using-or thinking of using-this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.

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Good Introduction & Users Manual, January 08 2008

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Submitted by dr.esk [Respond | View]

(written 2005)
Cole?s Using Moodle is a fair introduction to the course management software and a useful user?s manual.

Although pedagogy is an important part of the software, don?t look for much depth here. It?s written by techies, not teachers.

Also, unlike user manuals for other kinds of commercial software (Word, Excel, etc), the guide is not specific to a certain version. As of this writing, the book is already out-of-date.

[Edit: 2006]

However, I when I wanted to learn about glossaries in moodle and how they work, I was able to look them up in this book, and immediately put one together and get it up and running in minutes.

A good mariage between technology and education., May 04 2006

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The book helped me a lot during a couse I followed about elearning:https://www.elearningeuropa.info.
You can read it as administrator or teacher, or maybe just for fun. Thanks!

Technology that Teaches: Jason Cole's "Using Moodle", August 01 2005

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Submitted by Jim Farmer [Respond | View]

In Chapters 2 through 13 Jason Cole describes how to use Moodle from installation through creating various types of courses. The easy to follow text with illustrations describe, step by step, how to achieve a working system. Chapter 1 sets the context. Cole writes [Moodle creator] ?Martin?s background led him to adopt social constructionism as a core theory behind Moodle.? And comments ?Most [course management systems] have been built around tools, not pedagogy. I would call most commercial CMS Systems tool- centered while Moodle is learning-centered.? This captures the reason for Moodle?s overwhelming adoption by college and university faculty and K-12 school teachers?Moodle is designed to teach, and does it well. Chapter 15 ?Putting It All Together? summarizes course design patterns for introductory survey, skills development, theory/discussion, and capstone courses?a chapter that every education graduate should be able to write. These patterns make the difference between ?teaching as we were taught? and ?teaching as we should be taught.?

A learning system ?by educators for educators? continuously being improved by some very-savvy PHP developers. Cole describes their work well and argues the learning theory underlying the design has made powerful education technology, more than just a ?cool? architecture.

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"Anyone setting up training courses should look at this title."
-- Major Keary, PC Update

"What's in a name? Well, quite a bit if you're talking about "Moodle." Author Jason Cole, has done an outstanding job of writing a book for instructors learning how to use Moodle...The author has done an excellent job of showing universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, businesses, and even individual instructors how to add web technology to their courses. So, Moodle on, dude!"
-- John Vacca, Amazon.com

"This book provides the reader with all the background and detail information they need to install and configure the software as well as setup their courses."
-- Harold McFarland, Midwest Book Review

"It's always fun when you catch wind of something technical that you didn't even know existed. That's the position I'm in with the O'Reilly book Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole. This is a very cool software package, and the book covers it very well… Even if you're not necessarily considering Moodle as a CMS, it's worth reading the book to see how elegant an open source software solution can be. It'd be really hard for me to recommend commercial solutions costing tens of thousands of dollars after reading this volume. This is a well-done book that can open your eyes to what an open source solution can provide, whether it's for a CMS or something else. Worth a read..."
--Thomas "Duffbert" Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings, December 2005

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