Moodle E-learning Environment as an Effective Tool in University Education

The rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is more widely influencing all human beings, in professional and private lives. ICT and its applications are interacting with environments, roles, and processes of social and psychosocial change. New solutions for prolonging work ability and postponing aging through computer based learning and e-learning are opened. In this paper, it is argued that blended learning with computer based learning in the Moodle e-learning environment based on social constructivist learning theory is an effective tool for teaching and learning of occupational health and healthy workplaces discipline based on Ergonomic knowledge. The author has twelve years experience of computer based teaching for full time students and for students of distance learning. Students age is between nineteen and fifty-eight years. The author’s own teaching experience of the Moodle e-learning environment for creating and providing different courses in the Tallinn University of Technology, will be presented. According to the questionnaires given more to 1000 students at the end of each course, the teaching and learning in the Moodle e-learning environment as blended learning is very useful for development of a learning culture in higher education. The effectiveness and motivation for learning are higher than providing traditional methods of learning. The high appreciation of e-learning in the Moodle e-learning environment is the same of students of all ages. E-learning in the Moodle e-learning environment is one of the very perspective solutions for lifelong learning.

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Moodle ； E-learning ； Blended Learning ； UniversityEducation ； Convergence

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