Organization of distance education in the subject “Аnimal physiology” with using the electronic learning platform MOODLE and YouTube video hosting

Abstract

The current development level in IT contributes to the introduction of computer technology and other technologies in the learning process at various levels of education. Informatization of education is a process that provides the education sector with methodology and practice for the development and optimal use of modern information and communication technologies focused on implementing the psychological and pedagogical goals of education and training. Education institutions face the challenge of preparing a new generation of teachers to use the new learning tools in teaching practices effectively. Information technologies allow the university teacher to prepare and conduct practical classes and lectures and control activities effectively and at a new level. This article highlights the experience of organizing the educational process in a distance format using information computer technologies. It analyzes the work of the most common online distance learning platforms, with the help of which the educational process takes place at the State University of Biotechnology. The authors investigated the possibilities of the electronic learning platform MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) for students of the Veterinary medicine and biotechnology faculties. An analysis of the advantages of the MOODLE distance learning platform and ways to eliminate its shortcomings was carried out, the main of which, according to the authors, is the need to adapt the teaching of one of the essential fundamental disciplines to the video format and provide the combination of visualization of the classroom performance of laboratory and practical work with the possibility of independent, remote work if available access to the Internet. It is claimed that the MOODLE platform can use a wide range of video files, but this is not enough for a perfect study of the discipline “Animal Physiology”. Due to the limitation of specific technical characteristics of the MOODLE platform, the authors introduced files from YouTube video hosting into the educational process, which required creating their content. In the article, the authors presented their views on the creation of a single virtual, informational environment that combines all available technological functions of the system of professional training of future doctors of veterinary medicine.