Florica Paragina

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• Article: The benefits of using MOODLE in teacher training in Romania

  Florica Paragina, Silviu Paragina, Alexandru Jipa, Tom Savu, Andrei Dumitrescu
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  ABSTRACT: The utilization of the e-learning environments for teacher training programs is at the beginning in the Romanian system for teacher continuous formation. Also, the rules for approving this kind of formation program are not approved yet, due the ongoing modification to The Law of Romanian Education. There are a lot of e-learning environments in our academic institutions, but now the free resource Moodle for e-learning course management system gain new users every day. Some of the benefits which recommend Moodle for being implemented in the Romanian's programs for teacher training are the subject of our paper: different types of assignments, chats, forums, databases, glossaries, lessons, multiple types of tests with one or more items, quizzes, wikis, surveys and the SCORM/AICC module.
  Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 15:1135-1139.
• Article: Some E-Learning Tools for Knowledge-based Society

  Florica Paragina, Silviu Paragina, Alexandru Jipa
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  ABSTRACT: Now, there are developed many e-Learning platforms, but, this system is at the beginning, yet. Till now, a lot of methodological and didactical compounds were developed similar with the classical system of education. The utilization of an e-Learning platform is not easy for all and there are big differences of the results obtained in this kind of education system, between the young students and the older one. Many universities developed their own e-Learning system but they had to surpass a lot of problems due to the technical requirements for the server and, also, for the software used for providing the students access into system. The introduction of the SCORM requirements had provided a modality for measurement of the education's quality obtained using this kind of education at distance. Another problem was to ensure a personalized access to the platform, for every student, 24 h per day and 7 days per week and also for a large number of students. But, now, this was resolved due to technical innovation in the computers manufacturing process. From our point of view, the payment for the stuff involved in this kind of education is not yet very well defined. In this paper, we shall present our experiences as students and as non-editing teacher in using MOODLE platform and the second Life Environment, compared with the traditional education systems for students and adult persons. We are not able to identify a general perception of the e-Learning Education System, because its evaluation differs in function of the age of the teachers, students involve or not in this kind of education, and of the mass-media representative or of the researchers in education who develop studies in this field.
  Journal of Research in Educational Sciences. I(2):109-109.