MOODLE

The increasing popularity of the Internet brings some innovations for education. With this increasing popularity of the Internet, learning programs have shifted to online-based applications. There are high demands on design, programming skills, and time. These demands reveal some learning management system, like Moodle.

Moodle is a course management for online learning. It is based on social-constructivist pedagogy. In addition, it creates an environment that allows collaboration among the students. There are various benefits of Moodle.

•    Moodle collects reports of each students’ works. This provides an environment that teachers can follow their students’ performance.

•    Students can reach various resources in Moodle. These resources can be documents, graphics, video, or audio. Moreover, resources are linked to lesson tasks. This means students can easily access resources which are related to their lesson tasks.

•    Moodle has several assessment strategies, such as multiple- choice, true-false, matching, and open-ended questions. For the open-ended question, a teacher can provide feedback for the learners.

•    Moodle provides an orderly learning path, which helps learners to check the process step-by-step.

•    Moodle creates an environment for social interaction. Learners should do given tasks or projects by cooperating with instructor and students or among the students.

•    Moodle creates an environment for teachers to provide feedback for their students’ tasks, project, and assessments.