International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Development-– Volume 3 Issue 4, July-Aug 2020
Available at www.ijsred.com
ISSN : 2581-7175 ©IJSRED:All Rights are Reserved Page 172
How Moodle Facilitates E-learning? A Case Study in Vocational
Education
Vasiliki Ragazou*
*(Department Early Childhood and Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Email: ragazou@uth.gr)
----------------------------------------************************----------------------------------
Abstract:
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.
Keywords —distance learning, Moodle, vocational learning.
----------------------------------------************************----------------------------------
I. INTRODUCTION
Utilizing new technologies in conjunction with
the new pedagogical methods used opens up new
avenues for learning (e.g. [8]). In recent years,
many studies have focused mainly on learning
technology, online learning and computer learning
(e.g. [4]).
Adult education is included in all scheduled
teaching and learnings activities. They aim at the
integrated personal development and creative
integration of adults based on age, their social roles,
and their self-perception as individuals, workers
and active citizens in socio-political, cultural and
economic development (e.g. [10]). A learning
method is and on a postages learning (eLearning)
which is increasingly used in higher education
seems to result in a significant shift in the way in
which information is accessed by modulating an
inexhaustible source of easily material accessible
and renewable (e.g. [11]).
Penetration in distance learning shows an
increasing trend in our country in higher education
(e.g. [1]). Besides, recent years have seen keen
interest in both primary and secondary education.
For example, lately, University Institutions have
been providing educational seminars on the use of
such technologies to teachers of the respective
levels. However, it seems not to have the same
effects on adult training schools, such as public IVT
as we are in embryos I party stage as, regarding the
use of the tools on a distance learning. The work
then analyzes research data as they emerged from
the students' responses, and then presents ways to
use the Moodle platform that has been implemented
on the one hand to enhance teaching and on the
other hand learning.
RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS