Petrova Olha, Bogun Maryna
Kharkiv National Medical University
Case of the digital
transformation of education: Moodle system used for the university medical
students asynchronous training in the corporate network
Introduction
The modern world has reached previously incredible
heights in technology, information technology, developing man himself as an
inventor and creator. Digital transformation considers educational change, as
well. Like any development, this progress brings positivity, for the sake of
which it is all created, and brings changes to the way of life and all aspects
of existence without exception. We are witnessing the introduction of distance
learning platforms such as Moodle which received common recognition.
Objective
The work aims at presenting the case of the usage of
the distance learning platform Moodle for digital transformation of education,
namely, for the university medical students, being proposed for their
asynchronous training in the corporate network.
Results and discussion
Pressing need of objective reality, which leads to a
demand to use distance or hybrid learning conditions, determined the changes in
the system, organization, content, preparation and general nature of learning,
allowed to apply new pedagogical methods that contribute to the learning
acquisition.
In the education of the students of the medical
university, we use many distance technologies that allow our university to hold
at the modern level and satisfy continuous, high-quality work. The most popular
Moodle platform has been chosen as the main platform in our corporate network,
which has necessary capacities for all disciplines and types of work included
in the curricula at various levels of education of our higher education
institution.
In relation to the digital transformation that we
actively implement, in particular, due to the practical use of the Moodle
distance learning platform, we thereby respond to the existing modern needs in
the development of both education seekers and stakeholders and scientific and
pedagogical staff. So far, we have acquired the digital skills that allow us to
develop such transformative changes and at the same time take advantage of new
ways of training.
The Department of Foreign Languages, as other
departments of our university, uses Moodle to manage the educational activities
of students in various functional aspects. We use Moodle to manage and monitor
learning outcomes, assessment, independent work of students, online learning
and work-offs of missed classes, work in virtual classrooms, etc. Recently, we
have started to work with the Moodle platform to provide asynchronous learning
on all disciplines of our profile.
In General section, the News category, moderator
places up-to-date information on the schedule of work-offs, teachers in charge
and consultations, as well as other important information for students.
For each topic in the tasks, the teacher who creates
them chooses the most relevant types of tests and evaluation methods (for
example, to perform training pre-test tasks, we choose the method:
"Highest Grade"). According to the stage of the topic processing, a
certain number of attempts is allowed (for example, unlimited or two for
training, or only one for final control).
The asynchronous mode allows you to count on the
completion of included tasks within certain time frames (as the name
"asynchronous" itself means, i.e. not during a scheduled class), and
the student has an opportunity to choose the most suitable time to complete the
task by a certain deadline. Moodle is a platform that allows you to accurately
record all the student's progress and actions, the time spent on the course,
the score and grades received for each of the tasks, tests given, percentage of
correctly completed tasks, number of attempts, etc.
Moodle makes it possible to limit access to task
performance if the previous activity has not been completed, so that a student could
understand an importance of completion of all assigned types of work without
missing any of them.
Opportunities for the arrangement of materials in
Moodle allow you to include instructions for each step and recommendations for
students ("take a test to check how you understand terminology of the
topic", "it is recommended to study the vocabulary of the lexical
minimum for the specialty of Dentistry consistently by topics", etc.).
Conclusion
The experience of the Moodle platform usage provides a
positive attitude for this instrument, which plays a significant role in
digitization and transformation in this field of education. In the practice of
asynchronous learning, it has been shown that the Moodle distance platform
integrates various types of learning activities and is an indispensable means
of learning nowadays. It can be emphasized once again that unwillingness to
participate in changes leads to a routine that reduces the efficiency of work
and quality of results. On the contrary, an interest in the use of digitization
contributes to the maintenance of education at a deserving level.
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