LMS MOODLE CAPABILITIES FOR PREPARATION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL COURSES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11603/me.2414-5998.2018.3.8716Keywords:
medical education, information systems, educational materials, chemical formulas editing, Moodle, WIRIS, ATTO, TEX, LMSAbstract
The aim of the work – to present an authors’ experience of the LMS Moodle configuration for educational materials preparation for chemical and pharmaceutical courses through usage of MathType plugins by WIRIS.
The main body. The role of the information technologies in the education process of the medical universities is reviewed. An open-source software application as an important part of the modern approach to the medical education is signed. The experience of the Moodle learning management system implementation, adoption and support in the Ternopil State Medical University named after
I. Ya. Horbachevsky is presented. Specific requirements of the open source LMS Moodle software usage for teaching of chemical and pharmaceutical courses are discussed.
The configuration of Bitnami-based LMS Moodle test instance is presented. The approaches for educational materials preparation for chemical and pharmaceutical courses by usage of different LMS Moodle extensions and plugins are compared. Difficulties of the TeX typesetting language usage by medical and pharmaceutical faculties are denoted.
The manual for the procedure of the LMS Moodle adoption and configuration process for the usage of MathType plugins by WIRIS is given. The results of improvement of the process of educational materials preparation for chemical and pharmaceutical courses through usage of MathType plugins by WIRIS are offered. An example of development of the educational document with numbers of chemical formulas is shown.
Conclusions. Benefits of LMS Moodle MathType plugins by WIRIS educational materials preparation for chemical and pharmaceutical courses are presented. Prospective usage of the TeX language for development of professional documentation with large numbers of chemical formulas is recommended.
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