IT or not to be: the impact of Moodle in the education of developing countries
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Data publicació2012
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Abstract
E-learning environments, such as Moodle, provide a technology that fosters the improvement of the educational system in developed countries, where education is traditionally performed with relatively high standards of quality. A large number of case studies and research have been conducted to demonstrate how e-learning technologies can be applied to improve both training and learning processes. However, these technologies have not been proved efficient when applied to developing countries. The challenges that must be addressed in developing countries, both technological and societal, are much more complex and the possible solution margins are more constrained than those existing in the context where these technologies have been created. In this paper we show how Moodle can be used to improve the quality of education in developing countries and, even more important, how can be used to turn the educational system more sustainable and effective in the long-term. We describe our experience in implementing a programming course in Moodle for the Higher School of Informatics at the Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso (West Africa), joining efforts with local professors in designing and implementing the
learning system. The case example has been designed having in mind a number of contextual problems: lack of lecturers, excessive teaching hours per lecturer, massive classes, and curricula organization and stability, among others. We finally discuss how the teaching effort is reduced, the students’ knowledge and capacity improves, and the institutional academic model can be guaranteed with the proposal. For this reason, we claim that information technologies in developing countries are a cost-effective way to guarantee the objectives originally defined in the academic curricula and, therefore, deal with the problem of the education.
CitacióGarcia, J. [et al.]. IT or not to be: the impact of Moodle in the education of developing countries. A: Moodle Research Conference. "1st Moodle Research Conference: Heraklion, Crete-Greece, September 14-15, 2012: conference proceedings". Crete: 2012, p. 182-185.
ISBN978-960-98516-2-6
Versió de l'editorhttp://research.moodle.net/MoodleCon_Proceedings_program/index.htm
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- Departament d'Enginyeria de Sistemes, Automàtica i Informàtica Industrial - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [1.500]
- CNDS - Xarxes de Computadors i Sistemes Distribuïts - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [205]
- Departament d'Organització d'Empreses - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [447]
- SUSHITOS - Grup de recerca en serveis per a tecnologies d'informació socials, ubiqües i humanístiques, i per a software lliure - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [58]
- LIAM - Laboratori de Modelització i Anàlisi de la Informació - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [64]
- CAP - Grup de Computació d'Altes Prestacions - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [784]
- Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [1.954]
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- Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació - Ponències/Comunicacions de congressos [529]
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