DR. PRASHANT BARGE

Title: From Teaching, Learning to Assessment: MOODLE experience at B'School in India Year: 2014

Authors: Dr. Prashant Barge, Dr. B. R. Londhe

Journal: Procedia Economics and Finance

Publication date: Jul. 2014 Vol.11

Publisher: Sciencedirect

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Abstract

Many universities are taking initiatives to start eLearning courses using open source software based LMS portals. UGC has also declared the norms to grant permissions to such courses. MOODLE (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is one of the widely used environments across the reputed universities in the developed countries for such courses. IIT's, IIM's, TISS, Harvard Business School, Open university of UK and many other institutions from different parts of world are using Moodle for the teaching, learning and assessment of their students in all courses because of its Flexibility, Customization and Security offered with no extra costs.
The objective of this research is to explore use and benefits of MOODLE Open Source Platform by presenting firsthand experience and responses from the users (both Faculty and Students) about MOODLE (www.moodle.org).This is being used for Teaching, Learning and Continuous Assessment for MBA program at Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (Nashik, Maharashtra), one of the reputed B'School under Symbiosis International University, Pune (Maharashtra) in India.

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