THE E-LEARNING PLATFORM AS A BASIS FOR DIDACTICAL DIVERSIFICATION OF TRAINING

Abstract

The e-learning platform is gradually becoming an integral part of the electronic campus of any modern higher education institution and provides teachers with access to tools that not only complement traditional forms of training but also have the potential to increase efficiency in the overall learning process. Characteristics that distinguish learning platforms from regular exercise collections are user administration, course management, role definition and access and usage rights, availability of platform communication capabilities, learning tools such as a virtual classroom, placement of the learning curriculum content and media used in a network browser and, last but not least, a system for storing data and statistics on the activity and the results achieved by the learners. The main function of the electronic resources is to improve the attendance training and to increase the quality of the learning process, which in turn leads to the enrichment of the traditional forms and the autonomous learning of the students through the access to various information resources, materials, data and media. Each platform offers didactic tools in four main areas - course design, organization of teacher-student communication, access to additional and external resources, and an e-testing system. This infrastructure allows for the diversification of didactic approaches and information channels that take into account the different learning strategies and styles of learners in order to maximize the learning content. The purposeful use of learning strategies makes it possible to optimize learning, and in the event of difficulties, automated cognitive, metacognitive and resource-based strategies are applied and corrected or rejected accordingly. Knowledge and competence acquisition processes are not only dependent on the peculiarities and preferences of individual learners (or learning styles), but also on the learning object, the situations in which the learning process takes place, and external resources such as time, space, social characteristics and other side factors. Therefore, under different conditions, learners will choose different learning strategies, which in turn predetermines the style and success of the learning process. The structure of the learning resources offered by an electronic platform enables taking into account of all these additional factors and delegates to the learner the conscious choice of strategy, approach and media channel for obtaining information and its processing according to their leading learning style.