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Teaching to teach with a LMS: the experience at University of Perugia

Authors :
Filomia, Maria
Santucic, Valentino
Vinti, Gianluca
De Santis, Giovanni Maria Perfetto
Falcinelli, Floriana
Frenguelli, Giuseppe
Lorenzi, Carlo
Moriconi, Alessio
Siepi, Donatella
Valori, Furia
Ranucci, David
Milani, Alfredo
Marianelli, Massimiliano
Filomia, Maria
Santucic, Valentino
Vinti, Gianluca
De Santis, Giovanni Maria Perfetto
Falcinelli, Floriana
Frenguelli, Giuseppe
Lorenzi, Carlo
Moriconi, Alessio
Siepi, Donatella
Valori, Furia
Ranucci, David
Milani, Alfredo
Marianelli, Massimiliano
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

[EN] A Learning Management System (LMS) is nowadays a pivotal element in the education environment of a modern university. However, though it generally has a beneficial and positive impact on the education, a part of the teachers is sometimes reluctant to adopt a LMS because of the perceived usage difficulty. Therefore, it is clear that a key step in order to spread the use of a LMS is to teach to the teachers how to use it and which benefits their teaching activities can gain. In this paper, we report and analyze the experience we had at University of Perugia. An e-learning course has been released to the (approximately) 1000 teachers of the university with the aim of introducing them to the basic tools provided by the LMS. Importantly, the course has been created and delivered by means of UniStudium, i.e., the Moodle-based LMS deployed in our university. This allowed us to collect interesting quantitative and qualitative data that have been elaborated and analyzed. The analysis shows that the activities carried out reached a prominent percentage of teachers, by also providing us important suggestions and hints to guide our future activities in this direction.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Notes :
TEXT, TEXT, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1057339232
Document Type :
Electronic Resource