Moodle as a technology platform for e-learning

Williams Rivas

Abstract 

Long ago, the e-learning was focused as principal educational methodology for teach many people
using the Internet and communication technologies. In this research Moodle is proposed as
default technology platform for designing e-learning courses and to secure students can learn
easily. Moodle is defined as software to help teachers to teach and students to learn from
anywhere in the world and using devices such as computer, phone, tablet. Moodle consists of
several components: forums, email, chats, evaluations, repositories for upload multimedia
resources, word, excel and PowerPoint files, design of mind maps and exportation resources to
another web. The Key aspects of management can be listed as follows: specialized installation and
configuration, software and tools like as forums, questions and answers, evaluations. The study of
investigation for select Moodle as technologic platform was done according to the procedure of
Smith (1973) and the initial sample consisted of 200 students and 5 teachers with 5 different
courses and the following factors: how much knowledge learned for students? Cost of inversion in
this methodology and the results were compared with the same variables but with traditional
education.

Keywords moodle, e-learning, internet, hardware, software, technology, technologic platform,
computer, phone, tablet, forums, email, chats, evaluation, quiz, virtual education, word, excel,
power point, slideshare, mind map