USING MOODLE FOR TEACHING SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. TOWARDS HIGHER EDUCATION REENGINEERING

This paper describes results obtained by experiments on using Moodle for teaching Science and Information Technology. Modern graphical and dedicated languages are used to create content and embed the artefacts in four Moodle courses: Programming Paradigms (PP), Internet Programming Technologies (IPT), Graphical User Interface Design (GuiD), and Multimedia Techniques (MT). The following aspects are detailed and discussed: course format, HTML5 playing, SVG, CSS3, and JavaScript coding. The GuiD MT courses, in old versions, will be reengineered to meet the new requirements imposed by web 2.0 e-Learning technologies. The following challenging topics highlight the efficiency of Moodle: PP (Programming in Python, Programming in Common Lisp, Programming in Prolog), IPT (Client-Server applications, Developing HTML5 compliant content, Quality improvement by CSS3, Dynamic behaviour improvement by JavaScript and PHP, Server side applications, distributed data base connections), Guid (Graphical Interfaces in C# and Java, Android applications), and MT (Image standards, Audio-Video standards, Multimedia databases, Multimedia Security). Due to such a large plethora of objects, the Moodle platform is full investigated related on the support offered to build high quality e-Learning content. Interoperability assurance techniques are considered to import/export content. Not only standards on Multimedia artefacts, but the conformity with e-Learning standards are considered. Many types of resources are used to illustrate both the content of course's units, and the Moodle support. Statistical results on usage Moodle for Teaching (blended learning classes) two courses (PP ITP) are presented in order to compare different type of content used for the same class.