Today, handheld devices in addition to efficiently perform the function for which they were created are also facilitators of all kinds of content through its integrated internet connectivity. The user can access and play multimedia information (pictures, videos, music, podcast, ...), read news, ... and complete educational activities. Regarding the role of learning facilitator, the challenge is...

“Research Project” is a new addition to the Greek educational system established in the 1 and 2 year of high school, as a distinct course of the Curriculum. In this paper we study the use of the platform Moodle, in order to organize and implement this course. This use took place in the 2 four-month period of the academic year 2012-2013. The students, apart from the weekly 2 hour long classes, h...

Extant literature asserted that peer assessments improved learning but only a few studies had addressed the student rating consistency issue and not had evaluated this within a Learning Management System (LMS). The researcher explored how to conduct peer assessments in Moodle LMS for a hybrid-mode business course (N=90 students) which required 270 (25-page) reports. Rater agreement statistical ...

The Moodle platform is a software that provides unique framework within which students can access wide range of online resources, allowing teachers and to interact using different communication tools at any time. This contains series were used during distance education as an educational proposal in the middle 2020 pandemic necessity keep system running. For this reason, article aims review posi...

The paper examines the impact of ICT on students learning experiences and opportunities offered by virtual learning environment as an integral part of traditional learning environment in the experimental course “Integration of information literacy skills into ESP programme” at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania). The experiment aimed at developing students’ information literacy and social sk...

Most educational centers are currently using e-learning tools to provide the pedagogical resources for the students, especially in higher education. Nevertheless, some students are not able to access to this information because these authoring tools are not as accessible as they should be. The main aim of this paper is to evaluate if one of the most widely elearning tool used around the world, ...

The social constructivist philosophy of Moodle makes it an excellent choice to deliver e-learning contents that require collaborative activities, such as those that are associated with online labs. In the case of online labs that enable web access to real devices (remote workbenches), access time should be reserved beforehand. A booking tool will avoid access conflicts and at the same time will...

We present a way to automatically plan student-oriented learning contents in Moodle. Rather than offering the same contents for all students, we provide personalized contents according to the students' background and learning objectives. Although curriculum personalization can be faced in several ways, we focus on artificial intelligence (AI) planning as a very useful formalism for mapping acti...

In this paper, a proposal for hosting and supporting virtual conferences based on the use of state of the art web technologies and computer mediated education software is presented. The proposed system consists of a virtual conference venue hosted in Second Life platform, targeted at hosting synchronous conference sessions, and of a web space created with the use of the e-learning platform Mood...

Modern computer systems generate large volumes of log data as a matter of course and the analysis of this log data is seen as one of the most promising opportunities in big data analytics. Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLEs) used extensively in third level education that captures a significant amount of log data on student activity. In this paper we present an analysis of Moodle dat...