Implementation opportunities of the Moodle learning management system in virtual environment the Sloodle project

Abstract

Using e-learning was firstly appeared in companies’ sphere. It should be very useful if learning management systems were applied. Nowadays e-learning is used in different fields and gives useful informations in case of basics and its knowledge. It is essential to know the arranging technics and applicated handling methods of some supporting learning management systems of e-learning. The Moodle is the bestknown learning management system. The Second Life is one of the virtual environments which is useful in learningteaching methods that is used in most educational institute all over the world. Sloodle is an open source project which connects the Second Life with Moodle learning management system. Sloodle is a kind of “bridge” in which different kind of activities and registering and provided in both Moodle and Second Life. In our department, University of Debrecen Health Faculty of Nýiregyhaza ILIAS learning management system has operated since February, 2008. In the interest of higher level education we decided to use and made available some courses through Moodle learning management system. Some tools of Sloodle will be presented in our article. It will be the first study for our research in which we would use the Moodle learning management system, the virtual environment of Second Life and the project of Sloodle itself. Our article will contain the starting details and its statistical confirmation of our Sloodle project. We like to demonstrate that the results of the Sloodle-aided group are significantly better than the results of the control group in the most cases.