Developing Digital Content for e-Learning and K-12 Online Education with Moodle

Content outline

1. E-learning and K-12 Online Distance Education
2. Developing educational content for Online Distance Education
3. Introduction to ADDIE Instructional Design Model
4. Evaluation criteria for e-learning courses
5. Introduction to Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Moodle
6. Moodle and content development
7. Moodle and communication
8. Moodle and collaboration
9. Moodle and evaluation
10. Introduction to Authoring Tools
11. Basic functionalities of CourseLab
12. Creating SCORM-based content for Moodle
13. E-learning courses: various case studies

Learning outcomes

After the successful completion of the course, students will be able:

Cognitive level:

• To describe the characteristics of the online distance education, emphasizing to K-12 education.
• Το recognize the didactic operations of the educational material for e-learning.
• To describe the main functionalities of asynchronous and synchronous teleconference systems.
• To describe the main functionalities of authoring tools.

Skills level:

• To use the main functionalities of Moodle.
• To use a specific authoring tool to create SCORM-based courses.

Competences level:

• To design and implement a basic e-learning course for K-12 online distance education.