This paper reports a research in progress of an academic effort to adopt TOEFL materials into English course for vocational education particularly at State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang. During the last five years, open source Learning Management Systems called Moodle has been used in the institution as a platform to deliver several science and engineering related courses in blended learning env...

Mapping the specification IMS Learning Design and the Course Management System Moodle is a logical step forward on interoperability between eLearning systems and specifications in order to increase the best acceptance of the specifications into the widespread world of the eLearning systems and to ensure the standardization of the outputs from the systems to be used in others. IMS Learning Desig...

Development of the blended learning module integrating remote laboratory experiments into Moodle learning environment for an engineering master course in DSP, is described in this paper. New Moodle block called Remote Lab View (RLV) is created allowing remote experiments time scheduling as well as synchronous chat session available for teacher present in the laboratory and for students who acce...

During the last years, the use of virtual learning frameworks has increased in the academic community. On account of the requirements derived from the Bologna process, many European universities started to change their education systems to new ones based on information and communication technologies. Those systems are most times based on web environments where the security is an essential issue...

Acknowledgements I wish to acknowledge those learners, facilitators, tutors, developers and LMS administrators who helped with this work by being available for interview, and sharing their experiences of working in virtual learning environments. Special thanks are due to Steve Corich of Eastern Institute of Technology for sharing unpublished work, Richard Wyles of the Open Polytechnic for enlig...

Learning management systems (LMS, for short) have meanwhile gained an enormous practical relevance. Nevertheless, the quality of service offered is, at least in some respect, astonishingly behind the state of the art. Adaptivity of system behavior is such a field in which we confine ourselves to much less than we can afford. The authors develop an original approach, demonstrate an implementatio...

The use of learning management systems (LMS) has grown considerably in universities around the world. The University of Minho (UM) has pioneered in this area in Portugal, adopting Blackboard as its official LMS. Moodle is also used in UM in scattered initiatives, allowing for interesting comparisons. Previous studies comparing Blackboard and Moodle have been confined to limited samples and focu...

When people learn using Web-based educational resources, they are sitting in front of their own computer at home and are physically isolated from other online learners. In this study, an Open Sound Control based prototype system for sonification of the access log of Moodle, a popular e-learning system, has been developed as a way to provide a feeling of other learners’ presence. To generate sou...

e-Learning platforms allow users to collaborate with one other. Moodle, as one of the main e-Learning platforms, provides tools to perform collaborative tasks. With these tasks, students are able to share documents and information. The means provided by Moodle are not enough to perform some collaborative tasks, such as sharing documents in real-time. In this scenario users must be aware of what...

In the paper we present our experience in implementation of Jigsaw collaborative method in e-learning environment Moodle. Section 2 deals with characteristics of “Jigsaw” teaching method. The functionalities and model of Jigsaw method in Moodle developed in e-Learning laboratory at the South West University, Bulgaria are presented in Section 3. Organization of blended learning course “Computer ...