Summary

This chapter presented ideas about how people learn in an online environment, and it provided a brief overview of the functions and features of Moodle. Some of these features include book, chat, assignment, quiz, wiki, workshop, and more. These constitute building blocks that allow you to create unique courses that you can easily replicate—thanks to the object-oriented philosophy of Moodle.

The chapter also discussed competing theories about how people learn and why that matters to the instructor, and also to the instructional designer who is building the course. The chapter also presented basic information about how Moodle is organized, and what type of resources it has that can be used by instructors to build the kind of courses that they find useful. Finally, the chapter described a strategy for getting started that helps instructors develop a course which facilitates the learning process and also helps create a learning community.