This work tends to broaden the knowledge about the learning process in LMSs from an EDM approach. We examine students’ interactions with Moodle and their relationship with achievement. We analyzed the log data gathered from a Moodle 2.0 course corresponding to the different interaction patterns of 140 undergraduate students with the LMS in an authentic learning context. We found out 4 different...

In the last few years, Educational Data Mining has become an interesting area exploited to discover and extract hidden knowledge of students from educational environment data. During the establishment of this work an attempt was made to manage the extracted information using mining techniques. These methods took place in order to get groups of students with similar characteristics. The applicat...

E-learning management systems (eLMS) are increasingly used as online communication platform between students and teachers in traditional, distance and open learning educational institutions. Moodle [10] is the most used open-source e-LMS platform with around 68 million users being served worldwide [9]. This serverside application can be accessed via a web browser, on any computer or Internet-en...

Advancements in web technologies and the increased influence of the World Wide Web are leading to new and innovative ways of learning. New e-learning system technologies and services enable activities that allow users to be active learners, actively participating in the on-line learning process. When an elearning system with new technologies and services is presented, it needs to be adopted by ...

The open source course management system Moodle, which a great number of organizations worldwide have adopted, is designed to help instructors deliver course materials to their students from a social constructivist perspective. The aim of this research is evaluate the acceptance and use of Moodle as an open source application from the viewpoint of both professors and students at the American Un...

Educators in medical schools around the world are presently experimenting with innovative ways of using web-based learning to supplement the existing teaching and learning process. We have recently used a popular open-source course management system (CMS) called the modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) to construct an online site (DPhysiol) to facilitate our face-to-fac...

Most Educational Institutions worldwide have deployed web based Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a means to provide support for their presence-based lectures and offer online-exclusive learning. These LMSs were designed and developed for users accessing the system through web browsers on desktop computers or laptops. However, over the last years, an increasing percentage of the registered a...

How do students perceive teaching materials within Moodle? Which type of elements do they fixate first? How do students perceive images compared to text elements? How does the complexity of a teaching material influence eye movements and subsequently the learning process with Moodle? To which extent does student’s involvement influence eye movements during learning? ... This paper outlines how ...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.06.011 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 959 21 78 93; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected], r Sánchez), [email protected] (A.D. Hueros). Moodle and other virtual teaching platforms have bolstered the ability and motivation of universities to support distance learning. The aim of our study is to improve understandin...

This paper discusses the development of an adaptive e-learning system based on student’s learning styles by customizing an LMS Moodle. Two popular models of learning styles used are VAK and Felder. The VAK learning styles include visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, while the Felder learning styles include global and sequential. In order to accommodate the system adaptivity, some modules are crea...