The main global trend in the development of higher education is its digitization using modern tools and technologies. The leader among educational systems in terms of distribution and functionality is the Moodle system. The use of the Moodle system in Ukrainian education has acquired a new meaning in recent years. New challenges in the educational process that arose during the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Ukraine in early 2020 and with the outbreak of war in 2022, required rapid changes that could ensure and provide quality education for students. During the quarantine implemented due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, all educational institutions in Ukraine switched to distance learning. Training in this format took place in a synchronous mode, which allowed all participants in the educational process to communicate by video conferencing, the only thing was that there was no opportunity to master competencies related to practical skills. With the beginning of the war in Ukraine, another problem was added to the educational process - the lack of constant power supply and, accordingly, high-quality internet connection. Considering all the problems facing educational institutions and all participants in the educational process in Ukraine, it is necessary to ensure the proper implementation of the educational process with partial involvement or full use of virtual learning environments, such as the Moodle system.
Since 2010, the Bukovina State Medical University (BSMU) has been using the Moodle system in the educational process in the form of a distance learning server moodle.bsmu.edu.ua. On the distance learning server, electronic training courses have been created for each academic discipline, which contain organizational and methodological and educational reference blocks, as well as means of self-control and testing of students' knowledge. Each electronic course has assigned teachers who are responsible for filling and updating the course materials.
Our institution has developed a general structure and structure of thematic sections for electronic training courses with mandatory components and the ability to supplement them if necessary. For example, the discipline "General and Inorganic Chemistry" is structured and divided into 2 modules: "General Chemistry" and "Inorganic Chemistry". Each module is structured by topic. Accordingly, each topic is filled with mandatory materials (lecture presentation, abstract of the material, methodological instructions for practical classes and for the student's independent work, tests for self-control of their knowledge at home, tests to check the level of assimilation of information) and supplemented with necessary additional materials (videos of experiments that cannot be conducted in class, additional theoretical information for the class that is not covered in the notes, and other materials).
Students have the opportunity to use all the materials available in this course for an unlimited time. After independently studying the lecture material, notes or video resources, the student has the opportunity to check the level of acquired knowledge and skills using self-control materials: control questions, typical tasks and exercises, as well as test tasks.
For convenience, the test control settings are such that the student immediately sees his/her mistakes and, accordingly, the correct answers with an explanation. Thus, students have the opportunity to refine unclear or difficult-to-learn topics from this course. To do this, you can reuse all the materials from the course, and you can also use the materials of the methodological instructions for the student's independent work. In addition, if even after additional study of the material, there are still points that are unclear to the student, you can use the teacher's consultation.
This approach to ensuring the educational process only contributes to and increases the opportunities for students to obtain high-quality knowledge, skills, and abilities that are transformed into professional competencies.
For all participants in the learning process, it is important that materials in the Moodle system can be reused an unlimited number of times. However, for the course manager, it is necessary to constantly improve the course materials to ensure a high and high-quality level of the learning process with student involvement in completing the tasks. Here, tasks with interactive elements, presenting various types of questions, tests and assignments come to the rescue. Questions of the type "nested answers", "missing words", "drag and drop on the picture", "Kahoot" are interesting for students. It is also important to note that tasks for knowledge control are selected in such a way that they have a positive result in the learning process.
Despite all the efforts of the teacher in presenting, explaining, controlling, consulting, or filling the course in the Moodle system with necessary, interactive, and diverse materials, the saying remains important: “Students must be responsible for their own education!” Only with this approach will the use of the Moodle system in higher education have a qualitative result in the educational process.
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