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16. Grazer Konferenz – Qualität der Lehre: Curriculum planning and assessment

19. - 21. April 2012, Timisoara, Romania

The benefits of implementing a course management system - the experience of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes Timisoara

Poster

  • corresponding author Carmen Bunu Panaitsecu - Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Functional Sciences Department, Timisoara, Romania
  • author Diana Lungeanu - Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Functional Sciences Department, Timisoara, Romania
  • author Carmen Tatu - Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Functional Sciences Department, Timisoara, Romania

16. Grazer Konferenz – Qualität der Lehre 2012 - Curriculum planning and assessment. Timisoara, Romania, 19.-21.04.2012. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2012. Doc12grako19

doi: 10.3205/12grako19, urn:nbn:de:0183-12grako197

Published: September 5, 2012

© 2012 Bunu Panaitsecu et al.
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Poster

The information technology in the teaching activity is currently used in our university by most departments, but the applied solutions cannot be shared, due to the fact they are redundant and incompatible with each other.

The solution adopted for improving the quality of teaching was to implement a webbased course management system at the institutional level. We chose the Moodle software platform (http://moodle.org), based on a free source, cross-platform software, focusing on interaction and collaborative development, which was proved to be a great success world-wide. The benefits of this system, apart from its initial typical features (assignments, forums, files’ handling, grading, messages, on-line quizzes, wikis), are linked by the fact that its modular construction allows extending the functionality using plugins (e.g. for enrolment methods, authentication methods, different question types, import/export tools – already available from the Moodle Community).

The expected result of implementing this course management system in our current educational activity is to achieve the learning objectives and outcomes, as they were identified by the Steering Group of the Tuning Project (http://tuning.unideusto.org), for it facilitates not only a more effective teaching in the classical course format (mostly through an easier access to the course materials), but also a cooperative teaching, combining different assessment methods (formative and summative), as well as giving regular and personalized feed-back to students.


Acknowledgement

These data are part of the POSDRU project no 86/1.2/S/63815 EMEDIQUAL from the FSE-POSDRU 2007-2013.