Using Learning Content Management System Moodle in Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University educational process

Abstract

The article analyzes the results of the survey of 75 lecturers on using learning content management system (LCMS) Moodle in the educational process. It is defined that more than 75% of the respondents use LCMS Moodle. The lecturers up to 30 or over 60 years old, with up to 3-year-work experience in Universities need methodic assistance. Textual e-learning resources are widely used in developed courses while video and audio are not used enough. LCMS Moodle is mostly used during exams or tests and student work, and using LCMS Moodle should be intensified in lectures, laboratory and practical classes. Among the most demanded resources are label, page, file, URL, book, assignment, attendance, glossary, quiz. Thus, the popularization of other resources is identified as one of the most important. An action plan how to improve LCMS Moodle usage: increasing the IT competencies of both teachers and students – planned long-term courses “IT in full-time (blended) learning”; seminars, consultations, (group and individual forms) both on general issues, and according to the specificity of the specialties; methodic handouts and recommendations; improving logistics; improving logistical support – ensuring constant access to the Internet, updating and equipping computer classrooms; creating of transparent, predictable and attractive for authors content of the regulatory framework.

Motivation readiness of future software engineer’s professional self-improvement and prospects of its formation in college cloud environment

“…Popular among students are the services that make it possible to organize educational activities: Google Calendar, Google Keep, Google Classroom. LMS Moodle should be added to this list [28]. This is due to the fact that starting from the second year, students seek to work in different companies in the future specialty, which motivates to save time, mastering self-management skills, and these services help in this.…”

The potential of Google Classroom web service for lecturers of higher educational establishments under pandemic conditions

“…Tetiana A. Vakaliuk [70] and Kateryna P. Osadcha [45] developed methods of teaching with the use of cloud technologies; prospects for introduction of cloud computing into educational establishments are reflected in the works of Lesya V. Bulatetska [7], Ihor V. Hevko [12], Nataliia V. Valko [72], Hanna B. Varina [73]; Nataliia V. Soroko [61,62] researched a foreign experience in using cloud computing for teachers' professional development; Nadiia P. Kozachenko [1], Iryna S. Mintii [34,35,69] and Pavlo P. Nechypurenko [43] consider the issues of creating training courses in the Moodle environment on the basis of cloud computing technology and the possibility of their implementation in the educational activities of pedagogical universities.…”

Features of using Moodle tools in the training of future social workers

“…The issue of using distance learning platforms in the educational system is considered by modern researchers around the world. The use of the Moodle distance learning system in the process of training future specialists in Ukraine and abroad is considered by Abdula et al [1], Mintii [25], Mintii et al [27,27], Mpungose [29], Shalatska et al [44], Teo et al [47]. To implement blended learning, the great part of the universities use learning content management system Moodle.…”