We present the development of the project “Física Interactiva” (Interactive Physics) that addresses the special needs of students that enter at a Polytechnic University with a deficient background in Physics. The project tries to make an interactive tool available to the students through a web site. We choose Moodle as the Course Management System due to its cooperative philosophy and its open-...

An experience on design and implementation of electronic workshops about hot e-business topics and delivery of those workshops to various types of audiences is reported in this work. First aim of this work is to report the experience of our institution on building e-learning content suitable for electronic workshops and presenting the major facilities of the selected e-learning platform namely ...

Online learning platforms such as Moodle and MOOC (Coursera, edX, etc) have become popular in higher education. These platforms provide information that are potentially useful in developing new student learning models. One source of information provided by these platforms is in the form of student interaction with one another, instructors, and the platform itself. These interactions contain var...

Resumen. El propósito de este artículo es presentar un almacén de datos que permita guardar los elementos provenientes del resultado del desempeño académico de los estudiantes en cursos b-learning, con el uso de la plataforma de cursos en línea Moodle. La aplicación informática, Moovisys, se implementa como interfaz de usuario para la preparación y extracción de los datos. Moovisys, aún en desa...

The role of Open Source Software (OSS) in the e-learning business has become more and more fundamental in the last 10 years, as long as corporate and government organizations have developed their educational and training programs based on OSS out-of-the-box tools. This paper qualitatively documents the decision of the largest UK e-learning provider, the Open University, to adopt the Moodle e-le...

Freedom to choose what, when, and how to contribute in a learning process can motivate students to actively engage and achieve more in their studies. However, freedom of choice complicates course management and may deter instructors from allowing such freedom. Our approach is to utilize existing functionality of course management systems such as Moodle to automatically facilitate and coordinate...

Seit dem Wintersemester 2012/13 werden an der HTW Berlin die Lehrinhalte des Grundlagenfaches Werkstofftechnik des Studienganges Maschinenbau in eigenständige MikroLehr/-Lernmodule (also in Themenkomplexe, die nicht aufeinander aufbauen) „zerlegt“ und den Studierenden auf der Lernplattform moodle zur Verfügung gestellt. Basis des Präsenzunterrichts ist das moderne Lehrformat des sog. „Design-le...

This article describes TrivialCV, a toolkit created to facilitate the management of team-based competitive activities within the classroom. TrivialCV was designed as an instructor-oriented tool, in order to foster the organization of this type of innovative activities by facilitating the instructor’s task. This goal is achieved by providing easy-to-use graphical tools and a kit of integration s...

A combination of social network analysis and content analysis was used to investigate the interactions that took place in an online Moodle course among 22 participants that were enrolled in a teacher education graduate program. The purpose of this study was to examine both the patterns and quality of the online interactions, which were assessed using a content analysis schema. The social networ...

This paper presents a remote test workbench that was developed to support on-line assignments dealing with the IEEE 1149.1 standard test access port and boundary-scan architecture. The remote test controller is based on the DS80C400 networked microcontroller from Maxim-Dallas, which offers a very cost-effective solution to the development of micro-webservers enabling lowcomplexity data acquisit...