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Moodle E-Learning Course Development
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Moodle E-Learning Course Development |
Author: William Rice
Published: 2006-04-10 |
List price: $39.99
Our price: $35.99
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As of: October 14th, 2008 01:57:04 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Mostly Worthless
I found this book to be little more than the help that is already included in Moodle. There are a lot of screenshots, but very few have callouts, so they're not nearly as helpful as visuals could be -- however, the images take up about half of the book. At around 230 pages, half of that screenshots, I expected more for a $40 (list) book.
 Plain, clear and exhaustive
I found this book very useful, it allowed me to set up a full Moodle site and course for my training company within less than a week. Clear, easy to read, with good structure, and exhaustive - in terms that it allows one to install and setup moodle, shows multiple possibilities of creating courses and lessons, as well as good examples. Everything is written in a language just one level above a layman - which means that even a computer semi-troglodyte like me can understand even the setup part easily, and everyone can make a good course out of it. It's an example of a very well written manual.
I recommend it highly. One star less - because it is already slightly out of date. Moodle is updated monthly, and many of minor options are not described in the book - however, nothing that could not be understood and learnt by an average user. Good resource.
 Great for the right need
The book is a well written solid book that has clear and fairly complete examples on using Moodle. The book is ideal for the user who has just started, or will start using Moodle to teach a course. The book doesn't cover installation or administration - and doesn't claim to. The book doesn't cover advanced educational methodologies - Moodle Teaching Techniques by the same author will.
If you are a Moodle administrator, recommend this book to your beginning instructors, but you won't need it. If you have developed a course or two, and are looking for information about features you haven't figured out, or want more clarity about how Moodle works, this book will help. If you are just starting, this book is a definite.
Pretty good
I have to be fair and admit that I haven't read the whole book. I have skimmed it, and read some parts very carefully. It is a fairly good guide to this learning program, but it's a steep learning curve for a non 'techie.' I am a teacher who is looking to put coursework on line. A note in the beginning to start with chapter three would have been very helpful here. As it is, the book has convinced me that it would take me considerable time to use this program. I was hoping for short cuts, and instead, the book provided more details than I needed to know to just hoist my courses up on line. While I am not a techie, my son is a professional and teaches this stuff, and he says it not very transparent for him either. Obviously, my lack of technical computer knowledge is getting in the way of my understanding of this text, but the text certainly didn't make it easier. If anything the text was harder than 'click and see' with the real program.
All at one place at least
Just the fact that there is one place away from the online medium where one can access information on moodle is good enough to give this book kudos - to be able to read it when not in front of the computer. On first glance through (and in that, this may not be termed a review), the books seems quite expansive. Complimented by the online documentation, the prospect of working on moodle looks exciting - now there are two sources against just one online documentation source.
As mentioned, this is just a first impression. Hope to add more to this as I get deeper into the book.
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