ARTICLE ABOUT MOODLE AND MY SUMMARY

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In this post I am going to summarize the article which written by Carolina Costa, Helena Alvelos, Leonar Teixera “ The use of Moodle e-learning Platform:a study in a Portuguese University”. Writes divided the article in five subtitles: introduction,E-learning platforms,Methodology, Results and discussion, Conclusions and future studies. In the article writers describe a study carried out at the University of Aveiro that analyses the functionalities and tools of the moodle platform and their use by the students.

Information and Communication Technologies play an important role in education supported by Learning Management System such as Moodle,Edmodo,Blackboard. Interaction, Feedback, Conversation,and Networking are some of the possible actions using learning platforms.They provide a lot of opportunities to explore new methods of teaching and learning. There are different types of LMS, some of them representing commercial solutions (such as Blackboard/WebCT) and others open-source solutions (such as Moodle). The Moodle represents one of the most widely used open-source e-learning platforms, that enables the creation of a course website, ensuring their access only to enrolled students. Moodle platform integrates several modules which allow  creation, organization, delivery, communication, collaboration and assessment activities.  The Moodle incorporates a set of tools that can be used in the teaching and learning process classified in two groups. First one is the configured modules from the standard Moodle platform that provide interaction among students and teachers namely Assignments/Workshops, Chats, Forums, News and Quiz/Survey. The second one is the external tools that are incorporated in the platform, in particular Blogs, Wikis, Questionnaires and Video-conference. The students who use the tools give more importance to their implementation in the teaching/learning process. The successful use of e-learning platforms in the teaching and learning context critically depends on the teachers having knowledge about these tools, and being aware of how they should be used and being capable of organizing all the communication process.