Supporting teachers in higher education for didactic use of the learning environment moodle

Luštek, Anja (author), Jedrinović, Sanja (author), Rugelj, Jože (author)

Technology is becoming an important element of the pedagogical process at all levels of education. Regardless of its prevalence, many teachers are not able to take advantage of all the opportunities offered by technology. Knowledge of functionalities available in online learning environments and of their proper didactic use is vital for the launch to the pedagogical process. Within the project "Digital UL - With Innovative Use of ICT to Excellence", we launched two online courses, where university teachers and colleagues became acquainted with the possibilities, activities, and plug-ins that are part of the learning environment Moodle, which is the most widely adopted tool for sharing learning materials with the support for collaboration. The first online course was intended for participants with little or no experiences with the use of Moodle, and the other for participants who already had some experience with this online environment and wanted to learn about advanced activities in Moodle. The paper presents findings of the research after the completion of the online course. In the research we analyzed the use of Moodle in the pedagogical process among the higher education teachers and colleagues of the University of Ljubljana. We obtained the results with a questionnaire and an analysis of the reports of updated study activities with Moodle that the participants created at the end of the courses. We were interested if the content in the online course was meaningfully prepared and what kind of contribution they had for participants’ professional development. We also asked the participants if content fulfilled their expectations regarding the objectives of the course and if they were enabled to gain new experience, ideas, and knowledge about using Moodle in the pedagogical process. The results showed that through the course, higher education teachers found numerous opportunities for working in an online classroom, which they had not been familiar with before. Also, received feedback has shown that participants support the online way of conducting training because they can adjust their time and pace according to their pedagogical obligations. In the future, we will repeat a series of courses and improve future performance with feedback.

• Language: English
• Keywords: information technology, higher education, teacher
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: 16 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-113118
• UDC: 37.091.6:378
• ISSN on article: 1613-0073
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12688969
• Publication date in RUL: 09.12.2019

Record is a part of a proceedings

• Title: Innovative approaches to the application of digital technologies in education and research
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12687689

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEUR workshop proceedings
• Shortened title: CEUR workshop proc.
• Publisher: CEUR-WS Team, Redaktion Sun SITE, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen
• ISSN: 1613-0073
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12740630

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Moodle, didaktika, učno okolje, informacijska tehnologija