Organization of training with a Learning Management System

Organization of training with a Learning Management System

S. Shevchenko Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate professor,

N. Denisova postgraduate studies

Volodymyr Dal East-Ukrainian national university,

Severodonetsk, Ukraine

Summary. In article the analysis of a training management system of Moodle is made. Its benefits, features of work and shortcomings are considered. It is made the analysis of influence of system on quality of educational process and its implementation.

Keywords: distance learning; learning management systems; Moodle; Moodle platform, LMS.

Modern universal technology of education is the distance learning  focused on individual inquiries of trainees and their specialization. However, from the point of view of today's realities, there is a number of questions [2].

The organization of educational process has to be under construction on the basis of opportunities of competence-based approach and development of professional competences, both the teacher, and the student. It is impossible to forget about the personality and about system of relationship "person person" which the person technician system can force out. At distance learning this side very thin.

Unconditional benefits of distance training is that the student has an opportunity itself to choose the sequence of studying of objects, rate of work, there is an opportunity to solve independently, what is the time to spend for studying. It is good option for those who the most part of day are engaged at work, with children or with a family. But distance training, as well as any system isn't ideal and has the shortcomings. In case of this form of training there is a problem in identification of the student – it is impossible to check who actually carries out examination. In general, for training "at distance" it is necessary to have strong motivation and self-organization.

The purpose of this work is the analysis of system of remote education - Moodle learning management system.

Today in education a large number of systems of remote education, one of which is Moodle [2], is used. On the level of the given opportunities of Moodle bears comparison with the known commercial systems of remote education, at the same time differs from them in what extends in an open source code - it gives the chance to customize system under features of the specific educational project, and if necessary and to build in it new modules.

The system of distance learning Moodle is quite convenient, logical and practical. She allows to use various multimedia content, to create a problem of any type, provides different forms of communication between all participants of process. The Moodle system offers a wide choice and various opportunities of information transfer and communication with students and all who are registered in it on a course. Beginners quickly enough master work in system. The help of a tyyuter allows the teacher to cope with the arisen difficulties. Convenient navigation allows to pass quickly from a course to a course, there is always an opportunity to edit and correct information of a course, and use of the Test task allows to estimate and put down a mark - automatically that saves working hours of the teacher.

Important feature of Moodle is the fact that the system creates and keeps a portfolio of each pupil [1]: to works, all messages in a forum, and also "attendance", activity of students, time of their study in network allows to control all works which are handed over to them, all estimates and comments of the teacher.

Except the listed benefits of use of the Moodle system to information transfer and communication with students, we will note convenient, system of messages Moodle:

first, there is an opportunity directly in case of login to pay attention to the unread message that it allows to increase efficiency in operation in case of the response to messages (to give the necessary information, will even provide small personal consultation);

secondly, if necessary there is a service for the general mailing to at the same time rather large number of students of the necessary information (to make a reminder or the urgent announcement in a subject, choosing from group of necessary students);

thirdly, it is very convenient that messages of the Moodle system are duplicated on the e-mail address to which personal data of the participant is tied (login, the password), i.e. the system is customized so that as soon as possible various images to make the notification and to come into contact between participants.

Moodle is free system therefore it is very heavy to criticize it for small inconveniences for users as inconvenient system of check of tasks or creation of bank of questions – they take too much time. The increasing problems which we face in operating time in Moodle can be divided into three groups:

- technical - they preferentially concern not the system, but power of the server on which the Moodle system is installed. The problem of "hang" influences quality of communication, and impossibility to restrict time of passing of the test job, that is to adequately estimate operation of students.

- temporary - they are connected with the fact that teachers and students aren't informed in all functionality of system, and therefore don't use him. Not all functions are intuitively available therefore all inconveniences which are caused by this problem disappear in the course of studying of features of work.

- ethical - they are connected with the fact that remote education best of all realizes the potential in the conditions of voluntariness of training of students and their interest in quality of results of training. Students throughout distance learning always have an opportunity to bypass system. It both plagiarism, and an opportunity to one student to pass test for others, an opportunity to carry out a task the stranger, etc.

Teachers can't independently solve the first group of problems. As for the second group, this problem entirely can be solved by forces of teachers. The third group of problems can be solved partially in case of lack of technical problems and in case of existence of means for establishment of additions which give opportunities of video of a chat.

Having summed up the result, one may say, that in Moodle there is a lot of interesting and useful. Everything depends on desire and motivation of the person, his spirit on operation. For example, the student shall be aimed to make and hand over all jobs well and in time. And it will simplify to it system of passing an examination. The list of courses is submitted completely what simplifies navigation according to the page. In general, Moodle as a platform, is simple and convenient for perception. It defines in many respects its recognition by the international community. The author of the concept Moodle Martin Dougiamas platform created an instrumental thing which helps very much us in case of the synchronous and asynchronous training which people with different educational level, different cultures can use, with different physical capacities including with limited. The only thing that can't be solved by means of this platform is an implementation of educational process directly in the “person-person system”, passing the person technician system.

References

1. Анисимов А. М. Работа в системе дистанционного обучения Moodle [Электронный ресурс]. Учебное пособие. – Харьков: ХНАГХ, 2009.

2. Каргин Б. В. Система дистанционного образования Moodle [Электронный ресурс]. Учебное пособие. – Самара: СГАУ, 2012.