1-84719-284-XPackt Publishing 9781847192844 184719284XSep-07 List Price: $39.99Paperback172 pages Our Price: $39.99 Moodle is a free, open-source Learning Management System (LMS). Moodle is designed to help educators and trainers create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. It is the world’s most popular online learning system. It has many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. What you will learn from this book Using forums to motivate students and give them one-on-one attention Keeping forum discussions on track Managing chat sessions Using quizzes for student self assessment Adding immediate feedback, time limits, and location restrictions to quizzes Making creative use of lessons Using wikis for individual and group activities Making creative use of glossaries Using choices for quick reviews, surveys, and reminders Organizing courses Building better courses with blocks Making expectations clear with workshops The learning solutions are based on proven, accepted instructional principles and traditional classroom activities, such as Distributed Practice, Self Monitoring, Pre-correction, and more. This book will help you to motivate team work in your students. This book has a friendly approach and even experienced trainers will benefit a lot from it. It uses copious screenshots, for you to get a feel of the course site even while you are learning by building the solutions. If you are a teacher or a corporate trainer with a desire to design effective and innovative Moodle courses, this book is the best choice. The book assumes that you have basic understanding of Moodle, but it does not need any programming knowledge. It’s all about teaching and not programming. If you are new to Moodle, start with Moodle E-Learning Course Development by the same author. William Rice is a software training professional who lives, works, and plays in New York City. His indoor hobbies include writing books and spending way too much time reading sites like slashdot and 43folders. His outdoor hobbies include orienteering, rock climbing, and edible wild plants (a book on that is coming someday). William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society: how we create our tools, and how our tools in turn shape us.