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Teachers’ Perceptions of the Use of Moodle Activities and Their Learning Impact in Secondary Education

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Moodle has become popular worldwide in all levels of education. Although several studies have focused on analyzing the use of the Moodle platform as a whole, few contributions have examined the use of each activity included in Moodle, and its potential impact in learning. The survey collected data from 132 teachers in 43 secondary schools in Catalonia (Spain), considering teachers’ individual information, teachers’ frequency of use of Moodle activities, and teachers’ perception of how the use of Moodle impacts learning. Findings from all teachers suggest that assignment, quiz, forum, lesson, and external tool are the activities used most by teachers, and providing new educational scenarios is the main perceived learning impact. Moreover, only teachers as users of a narrow range of activities perceived the teaching and learning impact of Moodle as significantly higher: database (creation and sharing information tool), forum (communication tool), glossary (collaboration tool), and quiz and survey (assessment tools).

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  1. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, Open University of Catalonia, Rambla del Poblenou, 156, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Antoni Badia

  2. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Arrels-Esperança School, 08914, Badalona, Spain

    David Martín

  3. Open University of Catalonia, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Marta Gómez

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This research paper has been developed in accordance with the ethical standards of the American Psychological Association (2010). Participants were informed in advance of the general aim of the research, its duration, and the procedure to collect, store, and analyze the information provided by them. Following this notification, participants freely decided to answer the online survey. Data collected has been stored and managed observing the law on data protection and the right to confidentiality.

Appendix: Section 3 of the Questionnaire

Appendix: Section 3 of the Questionnaire

When you have used Moodle at this educational level and subject, please, assess how Moodle has benefited the teaching and learning process in each of the following aspects.

Strongly disagree

1

Disagree

2

Neither agree nor disagree

3

Agree

4

Strongly agree

5

 

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3

4

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To make the teacher feel happier with his/her teaching

     

02

To increase teacher’s perception of the quality of his/her teaching

     

03

To enable the teacher to design more innovative assignments

     

04

To increase access to content in various formats

     

05

To facilitate access to useful educational resources

     

06

To increase students’ motivation

     

07

To enhance students’ interest and attention

     

08

To increase students’ satisfaction and happiness

     

09

To contribute to extend the variety of learning assignments

     

10

To extend all ways of teacher–student communication

     

11

To contribute to design greater diversity of learning experiences

     

12

To make easier for students to produce learning products together

     

13

To allow better collaboration in learning among students

     

14

To make possible to take students’ diversity into account

     

15

To better serve the individual students’ learning needs

     

16

To improve reading and writing students’ skills

     

17

To promote students’ use of more learning strategies

     

18

To contribute to greater achievement of learning goals

     

19

To improve academic performance

     

20

To help achieve meaningful learning of content

     

21

To help assess the students’ learning outcomes

     

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Badia, A., Martín, D. & Gómez, M. Teachers’ Perceptions of the Use of Moodle Activities and Their Learning Impact in Secondary Education. Tech Know Learn 24, 483–499 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-018-9354-3

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