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THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE CONTENT WITH MOODLE CLOUD FOR TEXTILE ENGINEERING LEARNING
THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE CONTENT WITH MOODLE CLOUD FOR TEXTILE ENGINEERING LEARNING

Author(s): Adrian Buhu, Liliana Buhu
Subject(s): Sociology of the arts, business, education, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Socio-Economic Research, Sociology of Education
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: MOOC platform; Moodle; Moodle Cloud; small learning environments;

Summary/Abstract: From 2012, the idea of open educational platforms is gaining popularity around the world. In the near future to make e-learning more socialized by focusing on the development relationship and collaboration among learners of the same subjects, MOOC shall spectacular succeed. The groups of learners engaging with MOOC platforms make it a meaningful discussion difficult, because individuals may not get a response to their post, so they miss the social and pedagogical benefits of learning with others. The teacher may have a discussion moderator functions, or functions lecturer. The selection is made learner, organizing themselves in their own internal teams. Lectures teacher must be available on-line. The platform should enable self-learning progress through quizzes or other tests, and the possibility of conducting the exam on the scheduled date, when verifying the authenticity of the candidate's examination system. The European Commission launched Open Education Europa in September 2013 as part of the Opening up Education initiative to provide a single gateway to European Open Educational Resources (OER). The initiative is funded through the Commission's Erasmus+ programme. The main goal of the Open Education Europa portal is to offer access to all existing European Open Educational Resources in different languages in order to be able to present them to learners, teachers and researchers. Moodle Cloud, offers a cloud-hosting solution for teachers, trainers or anyone to effortlessly deploy Moodle as a learning environment, with zero installation or hosting charges. This solution allows anyone to get a free Moodle site in seconds. Ideal for individual classrooms and other small learning environments, Moodle Cloud offers all the advantages of the latest version of Moodle’s award-winning education technology software, Moodle 3.0., complete with integrated web-conferencing delivered on a custom cloud system utilizing Amazon Web Services. In this paper is presented a solution for developing courses for textile engineering students based on this new service: Moodle cloud.

  • Issue Year: 12/2016
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 467-472
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English