Making the most of Moodle for the design of language courses

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E-learning is an emerging field as a promising instructional medium as well as a ripe arena in which to conduct research on its impact on teaching and learning activities. The fundamental nature of e-learning as an instructional medium differs substantially from face-to-face delivery, thereby requiring more new features for course development, online assessment and interaction. Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and websites. It is a Learning Management System (LMS) that allows better cooperation among learners, tutors and students. In this paper we explore the implementation of effective e-learning through moodle and also present how the various facilities of Moodle are used by tutors to provide interactive and stimulating learning experiences in providing higher education in various colleges of technology.

moodlemoot.it, 2012

Linguistic courseware design requires accurate planning and involves the implementation of pedagogical principles in order to achieve authenticity, learner autonomy and to develop the students' cognitive processes (Fenner and Newby, 2000 [5]). It is a complex procedure which calls for careful consideration of all the factors and variables of a specific learning situation, including the learner's needs, motives, expectations, responses and results.

Langkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English

This research was aimed to determine the effectiveness of online instructional material model for EFS courses developed through Moodle for Secretarial Academy (ASTRI) of Budi Luhur students when compared to the existing EFS instructional material. This qualitative research conducted in the second semester of 2007/2008 academic year. Meanwhile the data sources used in this study were respondents consisting of 48 ASTRI Budi Luhur students as well as documents consisting of observation guidelines and post test results. The students were divided into 2 classes, namely BA and BB classes. BA class is treated as an experimental class while BB class is treated as a control class. This experiment was carried out for 7 times fully online learning with synchronous learning method. In analyzing the data collected, the researchers used T-Test to find out the effectiveness of EFS instructional material through Moodle. Based on the results of the post test conducted, EFS instructional material thr...

ConcienciaDigital

Introduction: higher education has experienced a number of changes in the teaching field due to the current situation. In this context, e-learning through educational platforms has taken on great value in the teaching-learning process. Objective: to apply an educational intervention through the Moodle platform to consolidate the skills of the English language in the students of the industrial maintenance career of the Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo during the special period April-September 2020. Methodology: this investigation was carried out in the context of mandatory teleworking due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This mixed research had a descriptive approach with a quasi-experimental focus. To achieve the main goal, 70 students from the third semester took an active part in it who were divided into two study groups: the control group and the experimental group, with 35 students respectively. Before the intervention phase, information was collected through a survey which y...

Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2005

The report presents one aspect of the science research project titled "The Distance education in Bulgaria: Opportunities and advantages for their application in Technical College -Yambol". The purpose of the paper is to show E-learning process of education by Moodle software platform and their realisation in Technical College -Yambol. E-learner is a way to use a variety of computer and networking technologies to access (often geographically remote) training materials, interact with learners, etc, with the management system for education. To achieve that technical and material base, methods for computer and electronic education usage, standards for the creation of electronic course and multimedia textbooks and trained staff are needed for its realisation. The results of the implementation of Moodle contain courses in Informatics, Programming languages and Information technology. The implementation of the information and communication technology in education with e-learning management system allows improving effectiveness of the education. The Management System of Education allows better cooperation among the learners, the tutors and the students. The accessibility, usability and student collaborative learning are improved. Higher motivation among the students and the teachers is achieved.

International Journal of Humanities and Innovation (IJHI), 2021

This study aims to create a hybrid learning model, and Linguistics course instructional materials to improve students' language knowledge, theories, and skills, particularly in the English department. A research design and development process were used to construct the learning model and instructional materials. This research entails a lengthy process of determining the needs of students and developing Linguistics products or course material to improve students' capacity or skills in learning language through hybrid learning using a Moodle platform (e-learning). The participants in this study are English department students from Faculty of Languages and Literature, Universitas Negeri Makassar. The students in the English Education and Literature department served as the study's sample. The study's findings revealed a hint of a hybrid learning model based on Moodle e-learning, syllabus, Linguistics course design instructional material, and student’s worksheet activiti...

pixel-online.net

Recognition of professional competence over the last few decades has become a key issue for member governments of the European Union. As a result of this demand, the purpose of the project herein presented is two-fold. On the one hand, official recognition and certification of foreign language levels, for both general and specific purposes, as based on national and European guidelines, frames the content and development of the first of the main objectives we pursue. On a professional level, the users of this proposal consist of individuals with specific language learning needs, be those beginner levels established in the project, be those refresher levels of previously learned content, or simply those pertaining to life long learning.

THE ANNALS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ORADEA. ECONOMIC SCIENCES, 2021

In many universities around the world, the current pandemic situation confined the academic process to online interactions alone, with no physical presence in a class, the ‘face-to-face’ classes being held by means of applications or programs that provide video conferences facilities. Besides these tools for live communication, most universities – among which ours, as well – have started to make extensive use of the e-learning Moodle platform. Especially designed for the distance learning form of education, the Moodle platform has previously been used in our university mostly by the teachers involved in the distance learning form, particularly for the purpose of providing the distance learning students with study materials and other resources of interest for the subject – through the resources uploaded on the pages of the discipline -, for communication – by means of forums and chat rooms -, and for enabling a few tests and assignments along the semester. Now, with everything going ...

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011

Drawing on the European Union's strategic employment-related policy of flexicurity, the present article argues in favour of deploying Moodle's interaction-supporting features in special purpose language teaching with a view to developing highly interactive and content/outcome-oriented learning settings capable of empowering engineering students with employabilityincreasing skills (i.e. digital, generic, language skills) and engineering field-related knowledge/competences.

Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 2020

The components of Technological (T) Pedagogical (PA) Content (C) Knowledge (K) (TPACK) needs to be effectively integrated and disseminated for achieving Knowledge, Assimilation and Reflection of learner's learning. A case study of learners responses in Digital Logic Design course is demonstrated in this paper by following an integrated approach of LeD, LbD and RCA. It is found that learners ability to achieve Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTs) is enhanced upto 61.57%.

2021

Integrating English learning content enhance complexity and unconventional demands challenge lecturers in Higher Education. The study investigates and determines an English learning course design through Moodle, the most suitable approach that develops an online environment’s essential language learners’ accomplishment outcomes. The study was conducted with the qualitative approach with a case study research design. The thirty-eight lecturers generate as respondents from Higher Education in the Jakarta area. The result has found that Moodle could implement the demands-complexity of English language learning in the electronic ecosystem. The English course should have obtained attention or engagement with familiarize, encourage, fulfill, evaluate, and understand actual content material integrated Moodle feature. The Moodle-based designer must develop topological technologies to request the particular necessities of learners needs. Moodle is not fundamentally constructed as a mechanis...

Computers in Human Behavior, 2019

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E-learning is nowadays a promising place to improve both modern and asynchronous education. The most widely used tools for asynchronous e-learning today are the Content Learning Management Systems, which are Internet-based platforms that allow teachers to manage and distribute their educational material efficiently. Also, they can be used for communication between teachers and students.The aim of this paper is duple. First, this study explores the attitudes of forty students, who attend computer science course in an Institute of Vocational Training (IVT), on e-learning and study learning material through learning platform Moodle. Secondly, this study investigates presentation and teaching methods using the Moodle in the context of IVT. According to the study results and the students' opinions, e-learning can be a useful tool both for teachers and learners to achieve better results in the educational process. Furthermore, students can face learning as an opportunity to strengthen and promote self-efficacy, adulthood, independence, self-assessment and self-development.

2020

Abstract: As a global lingua franca, English language is the main and necessary standard in everyday communication today. The lack of knowledge of English can be a huge obstacle to scientific papers reading, international cooperation, scientific papers presentation and career progress. For all the above mentioned reasons, English is compulsory, two-semester course during all four years of undergraduate academic studies in all faculties at Singidunum University, both for regular students and DLS (distance learning system) students. Moodle platform is the main tool for foreign language learning for DLS students. This paper presents the analysis of the usage of Moodle in English language teaching at Singidunum University, as well as all advantages and disadvantages that the platform has. All functions of platform are taken into consideration, both for vocabulary teaching and for all four language skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking). The aim of the paper is to highlight the a...