Community Today Research Articles

A Critical Assessment of the Relevance of International Organizations in the Contemporary World Order

The myriad of challenges such as diseases, climate change, wars, terrorism, hunger and starvation, pollution, environmental degradation, etc, confronting the global community today deserve nothing than a concerted effort via international organizations to address on a permanent basis. This is incontrovertibly true because international organizations provide some veritable platforms through which nation states as well as individuals desirous of finding solutions to their common challenges can meet and have these issues resolved. This paper, therefore, intends to discuss the essence of international organizations in the contemporary society. The motive is not just to showcase the crucial roles of international organizations but to also draw the attention of the public to the salient opportunities hidden in these institutions. The data for the piece are based on the secondary source which includes textbooks, journal articles and other online materials. Liberal institutionalism has been adopted as a theoretical backup. The findings suggest that the essence of international organizations lies in their functions which are usually for the benefits of member countries. These are seen in the various activities of organizations such as the International Trade Centre and the World Trade which assist member countries in promoting fair trade with each other; the Natural Capitalism and International Research Centre help to enhance sustainable economic development in the world; the World Bank and the Institute for International Finance provide monetary assistance to the countries as the Food and Agricultural Organizations and the World Food Programme help member countries in the areas food security .They also help in maintaining peace and security, environmental protection among others. To ensure that international organizations remain relevance in the 21st Century, concrete efforts are needed by states and non-states actors to strengthening their capacities and members must be totally committed to the vision and mission of international organization they belong.

Comradely Exchanges: Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Physiological Collectivism and Community Reimagined

This article examines Soviet theorist Aleksandr Bogdanov’s physiological collectivism, which builds around the idea of mutual blood exchange as a method of eroding borders between individuals to increase the resilience of the social organism as a whole; and reconceptualizes community as a network of material connections between the cells of said organism. The COVID-19 pandemic increased interest in convalescent plasma (CP). This article examines the physiological collective together with theorists like Jane Bennett and Donna Haraway as a basis for how convalescent plasma can function as a first step towards establishing material community today.

Greetings Style as a Linguistic Identity to Recognize the Poet and Leader of the Buton Community: A Study of Kabhanti Bula Malino’s Manuscripts

This study aims to analyze the style of greetings as a linguistic identity to recognize the poet and leader of the Buton community: A study of Kabhanti Bula Malino's manuscripts. Through an expressive approach and descriptive method, the data were analyzed through the following steps: (1) text reading or reading techniques (listening-noting), (2) data classification, (3) interpretation, and (4) conclusion. The results of the data analysis of this study showed that Muhammad Idrus Qaimuddin (MIQ) is a legendary kabhanti writer who was known to have a commendable character, humble, full of attention to aspects of transcendental life, even though he was a king (Sultan). Kabhanti Bula Malino (KBM) has truly become evidence of the existence of a great poet who once existed in the Buton Land and KBM itself is still known by the Buton community today.

Analisis Kepuasan Masyarakat Terhadap Penggunaan Instagram Menerapkan Metode Use Questionnaire

Along with the times, the media for socializing is very diverse. The presence of social media at this time merges one's privacy space with the public. Today's community activities are also inseparable from social media. Online social media that is used as a means of social interaction online on the Internet. By using social media, its users can communicate with each other, interact, share, and various other activities. Of the many social media used today, one of the social media that is quite widely used is Instagram. Instagram itself is a social media platform that was founded on October 6, 2010. Instagram is a social media platform for applying digital filters and a place to upload and share photos with other users, but not infrequently Instagram is also one of the media to promote a product to the public. This is what makes the author want to examine the level of user satisfaction in North Penajam Paser Regency. raised a research entitled “Satisfaction Analysis of Social Media Use. The method in this study uses the Use Questionnaire method which has variables of Usefulness (usability), Ease of Use (ease of use), Ease of Learning (ease of learning), Satisfaction (satisfaction). This research uses quantitative descriptive research, which is based on the use of data in the form of numbers as an analysis tool and data acquisition through questionnaires in the field to 100 respondents. The results of this study note that the Usefulness Aspect scores 79.53%, the Ease of use aspect scores 82.42%, the Ease of learning aspect scores 83.70%, the Satisfaction Aspect scores 79.80%, and the final measurement results usability score percentage is 81.21%.

AL-QUR’AN DAN PEMBANGUNAN LINGKUNGAN BERKELANJUTAN DI INDONESIA: ANALISIS MAQASHID SYARIAH UNTUK PENCAPAIAN SDGs

This article will explore the Islamic worldview on environmental development which is the main problem of the world community today. One that did not receive much attention in this study was the role of religion and all related components in contributing to the realization of sustainable environmental development. These environmental issues are part of the SDGs agenda which requires a new perspective through comparison with the maqasid shariah framework, specifically to analyze the agenda of SDGs 2030 in Indonesia, especially the pillars of environmental development with targets and priorities in realizing it. For this reason, text interpretation and content analysis methods are used to examine sources of religious texts, especially verses of the Qur'an that reveal the relationship between Islam, development, and the environment, as well as road map documents and Indonesia's SDGs 2017-2030 policy. The conclusion of this article emphasizes that the Qur'an as a source of the Islamic law that has a philosophical foundation is operationalized through maqasid shariah as the goals of Islamic law set by Allah to realize goodness for humans through sustainable environmental development and the application of environmental ethics for all human beings. for its sustainability in the future. Keywords : Holy Qur’an ; Maqasid Shariah ; SDGs ; Environmental Ethics ; Environmental Sustainability

Do renewable energy consumption and green innovation help to curb CO2 emissions? Evidence from E7 countries.

Global climate change is profoundly affecting human survival and development and is a major challenge facing the international community today. Therefore, this study aims to examine the effect of renewable energy consumption and green innovation on CO2 emission reduction in E7 countries within the framework of macroeconomic indicators, and whether they can contribute to achieving carbon neutrality targets. To achieve the purpose of the study, firstly, the fully modified OLS, dynamic OLS, classical cointegration regression, Bayer–Hanck cointegration, and ARDL bounds test are employed in this study. The existence of a long-term cointegration or long-term linkage is confirmed by empirical evidence. Secondly, the empirical outcomes of FMOLS, DOLS, and CCR reveal that a 1% increase in renewable energy consumption and financial innovation reduces the CO2 emissions by 0.357% (0.301%), 0.428% (0.336%), and 0.348% (0.306%), while a 1% rise in economic growth and inflation raises the CO2 emissions by 0.881% (0.015%), 0.946% (0.043%), and 0.875 (0.022%), respectively. Similarly, the results of ARDL demonstrate that renewable energy consumption and financial innovation contribute to the improvement of environmental quality, while economic growth and inflation exacerbate the deterioration of environmental quality. However, green innovation has no apparent impact on environmental sustainability. Finally, in the short term, the paths of renewable energy consumption and economic growth on environmental sustainability under macroeconomic conditions are almost identical to those in the long term, while green innovation significantly improves the environmental quality of economic development in E7 countries. To sum up, to achieve sustainable economic and environmental development in the context of carbon neutrality, policy makers in developing countries should fully consider the role of renewable energy and green innovation, and actively strive to promote green and low-carbon energy development, to make new contributions to global environmental governance.

Education TV's website that guides today's student community

Language was needed to communicate with one another when human society emerged on earth. In ancient times, language was understood through gestures and sounds. Human society brought language into written form to continue civilizing. That script was also transformed into hieroglyphics, syllables, scripts, etc., and changed to the scriptwriting system we use today. We needed a medium to communicate with distant people. In the early days, it was also communicated by writing. It wrote on barks, clay tablets, pottery tiles, animal skins, and clothes. As the knowledge of human society expanded, so did his discoveries. After the discovery of paper, mankind wrote everything on paper as the medium of letters. Human society communicated through it. As the time of writing on paper gradually became obsolete, writing on a computer became new with the development of technology. There was only a letter to contact those far away that day. The telegraph came because of the technological revolution. The phone arrived. The radio came on. Television also came. As a result of the information technology revolution, the internet, a medium that surpassed all this, came into being. The website swallowed up everything that had previously been used for communication separately. Do you want to send a letter to someone? Want to talk to someone in some corner of the world? Want to listen to the radio? Even if there is no television at all, do you want to know what's happening in other countries? The website has been transformed into a time mirror that shows everything. Various literature is being created in Tamil on such a website. Originally created for the communication of various types of information, the website today has a deep footprint on all platforms. It is also doing the work of educating the students. No one learns anything at birth and comes back. Everyone learns language, mathematics, science, society, etc. during their student days. Today, websites have created a situation where even going to school can be done from home. In this context, the Tamil Nadu Government's Education TV, which broadcasts educational programmes for students, also has a website. This article aims to examine whether the website has similar functionalities for today's student community.

Emerging FAIR Ecosystem(s): A Practical Perspective

There is broad acceptance that FAIR data (Wilkinson et al. 2016) reuse is desirable, with considerable interest and energy being devoted to its realization, but many questions remain on the part of prospective implementers. Fundamental to explaining how best to implement FAIR is an overview of how the many FAIR models (and the technologies that support them) fit together into a coherent "FAIR ecosystem". How do FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) (Schultes et al. 2020) relate to FAIR Data Points (FDPs) (Bonino da Silva Santo et al. 2022), and how do these relate to the concept of FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs) (Hudson et al. 2018)? What is their relationship to other diverse FAIR resources and digital assets (metadata, datasets, repositories, and the complex web of services that run them)? How are these novel and legacy systems intended to interoperate? These questions are often encountered by those involved in the growing number of projects looking at FAIR implementation (ENVRI-FAIR 2019, CODATA 2022, SciDataCon 2022, Seoul Korea 2022b, Health-Holland Project 2021, Health-Holland Project 2022, Swiss Personalized Health Network 2022, Maxwell 2021, VODAN 2020). Such an overview could also inform the development of specifications for the different models involved in a FAIR ecosystem, such as FIPs, FDPs, and the description of digital resources (data and services) at various levels. With an agreed picture of the FAIR-reuse ecosystem, the points of contact and "hand-off" would be easier to describe and coordinate. This presentation looks at questions from FAIR implementation across various settings, and proposes a view of the overall ecosystem which could be agreed and communicated to prospective implementers. It suggests the relationship between various artefacts being discussed in the FAIR community today (FIPs, FDPs, FDOs, and other digital assets) and looks at how these can be connected to the business layer to support the development of services and applications within the envisioned FAIR ecosystem. Notably, this includes how the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) being developed through the WorldFAIR project can connect to the underlying FAIR ecosystem in practical terms (Weise et al. 2022). The presentation will address high-level considerations around the major technology components of a FAIR ecosystem, their roles within a range of common user scenarios (often having unavoidable legacy technology), and their relationship to each other and to the set of models needed to provide practical services for FAIR interoperation at the business level. Three basic scenarios are examined, in order to understand the practical requirements of different communities. The first scenario is one which has received a good deal of attention during initial efforts to implement the FAIR principles, a domain or user community without a strong pre-existing culture of data sharing and resume, wishes to become FAIR. The second scenario is one where a community with a strong existing culture of data sharing and reuse is looking to integrate its current approaches with those advocated by the FAIR community. The third scenario looks at FAIR from the perspective of the implementer of FAIR services from an “industrial” perspective: how does FAIR provide the kind of market which is needed to support full-scale services and application development? Each of these scenarios provide valid, but different views of what it will take to implement the FAIR in practical terms. In order to understand them, we can draw parallels with other large-scale data-sharing efforts in other communities - the Internet and the Web itself can be understood as a useful example of how vision, standards, and implementation combine to provide successful infrastructure at this scale. Indeed, the concept of Digital Objects (and now FAIR Digital Objects) has its roots in this analogy (Kahn and Wilensky 2006). Other, smaller examples also exist, which focus more specifically on the exchange of data and metadata: for example the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) Initiative (SDMX community 2022) or the emerging Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (SciDataCon 2022, Seoul Korea 2022a). Although implemented within targeted communities, these efforts exchange a wide range of data and metadata not entirely dissimilar to what is envisioned in FAIR. There is currently no single exact parallel for FAIR ecosystems, but there are examples from which we can learn in terms of making large-scale data reuse a practical reality. Core to these is a vision of all of the component pieces, and how they can act in concert to provide a scalable infrastructure which will address the needs of the many different communities of users. Such a common vision may be implicitly agreed among those working on FAIR implementation today, but in the interests of clear communication, it is time to document it - and in keeping with FAIR, this documentation should be itself machine-actionable. As we move toward the specification of the many components of the FAIR ecosystem, it seems only common sense to have an agreed roadmap.

Content-Strategy as Effective Tool of Brand-Communication in Conditions of Economic Challenges

Effective brand-communication shaping is connected with continuous search for rational solutions in the chain of ‘brand-customer’ interaction in direct promotion of goods and services of the company as a whole. Insufficiency of resources, unstable market situation in conditions of social and economic restrictions caused by COVID-19 pandemic and deepening crisis in global community and in the country could result in redistribution of businessprocesses in the direction of growing advert-marketing communication in business. It is necessary to involve new target groups, extend impact zones taking into account the departure of some big international brands from the home market and creation of favorable conditions for regular effective communication with customers (target audience) in the future. The article studies lines that are used by media community today and identifies the following key tools, which can improve quality of brand-communication at the expense of providing better customer experience, building long-term effective advert and PR-communication: CRM-marketing, company site optimization, development and implementation of content-strategy that could interest customers and shape or adjust effective exchange communications.

OBAT TRADISIONAL SEBAGAI MASLAHAT BAGI MASYARAKAT KONSUMTIF DALAM TINJAUAN HUKUM ISLAM (STUDI JAMINAN KEHALALAN) Desa Kaiyasa, Kecematan Oba Utara, Provinsi Maluku Utara

ABSTRACT Traditional medicine is a medicine from nature which is made in the form of leaves and sticks to provide a boost to the immune system. One of them is a drug that is often consumed by the community today is muscle pain medication. Because the people of kaiyasa village are getting old and vulnerable to old age, it is consumed by many people. In addition to old age, children also consume traditional medicine to maintain stamina, physical exercise and health. One of them is located in the village of kaiyasa. But in reality the community has not been able to provide new breakthroughs for traditional herbal medicines themselves, both in the scope of marketing, strategy, management to obtain certification guarantees from the halal certificate registration system to the Provincial LPPOM MUI. This study uses a quantitative approach, namely research that uses statistical analysis that focuses on hypothesis testing. This type of research was conducted to analyze traditional medicine as the benefit of the consumptive society. The results of this study indicate that based on the results of the analysis, the significance value of the user variable is 430 < α from 0.05 so it can be said that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted, meaning that there is a significant effect on drug users' efficacy on the community. Based on the results of the analysis, the significance value of the behavioral variable for consuming traditional medicine is 030 < of 0.05 so it can be said that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted, meaning that there is a significant effect on drug users' efficacy on the community.

Structural, optical, dielectric and photovoltaic properties of Sn doped CdS films prepared with green synthesis route

Energy harvesting from renewable energy sources is one of the burning topics in today's research community. Solar cells are emerging as a potential candidate to harvest solar energy into electrical one. Here, we tested a series of pure and Sn-doped CdS as photoabsorbers in solar cells prepared by the sol-gel technique via the green synthesis route. The formation of a hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure of pure and Sn-doped CdS is confirmed using X-ray diffraction analysis. Doping of Sn caused a slight change in lattice parameters, crystallite size, d-spacing, and dislocation line density. UV–vis measurement revealed the direct bandgap nature of the material with bandgap value of 2.50 eV which reduced the 2.20 eV upon 3% Sn doping. Optical parameters, including extinction coefficient and refractive index, are measured. The film prepared with 3% of Sn doping has a high refractive index, i.e., 2.56. In addition, the imaginary and real parts of the dielectric constant are measured in the frequency range of 20Hz to 20 MHz, which exposed the presence of different relaxation phenomena in this composition. The solar cell prepared with 3% of Sn doping has a high value of current density (3.57 mA-cm−2), open circuit voltage (0.49 V), fill factor (0.654) and efficiency (1.14%). This solar cell is a stable cell due to the absence of liquid corrosion like in dye-sensitized solar cells.

Penyuluhan E-Commerce sebagai Peluang Ekonomi Karang Taruna Desa Sukmajaya Kabupaten Bogor

In today's economic development, knowledge and information are developing into one of the main production factors that require technological improvement and innovation to create sustainable economic development. One of its forms is the presence of e-commerce as a means that can help economic activities run more easily and quickly. The improvement of information and technology in supporting e-commerce activities is important to be followed by the community today. In this regard, community service is focused on educating the understanding of e-commerce to increase the economic opportunity of Karang Taruna Sukmajaya Village. This activity was carried out based on the results of discussions with the management of Karang Taruna Sukmajaya Village who wanted to find out more about the economic opportunities of e-commerce. want to find out more about the economic opportunities of e-commerce. In addition, some karang Taruna administrators also have businesses such as in the field of workshops and fisheries, it's just that the marketing method is not based on digital technology. Through this activity, it is hoped that digital literacy related to e-commerce can be a provision in taking advantage of existing economic opportunities. In this case, at least the businesses that have been carried out by the Karang Taruna management can use digital technology to promote their business more broadly. The method used in this service is by providing counseling to the Sukmajaya Village Cadet Reef. The result of this activity is the increasing knowledge and understanding of partners about e-commerce as one of the applications in building the economy of its citizens.

Implementasi Pendidikan Agama Islam Dalam Meningkatkan Pemahaman Agama

Islamic religious education is very much needed by the Islamic community today to add insight in understanding religion, because in fact there are still many people who lack understanding of religion, lack of understanding of religion will greatly affect a person in carrying out daily worship and activities related to religion. In the context of fostering religious education in the community, efforts can be made through regular recitations, one of which is found at the Al-Muchlisin taklim assembly. With this taklim assembly, it will help the community in increasing religious understanding and can foster society towards an Islamic society in accordance with the teachings of Islam. So it is deemed necessary for researchers to conduct a research in the form of a thesis with the title "Implementation of Islamic Religious Education in Improving Religious Understanding of Mothers of the Al-Muchlisin Taklim Council of BTN Purnasari Leuwiliang, with the aim of knowing how the Implementation of Islamic Religious Education in Improving Mothers' Religious Understanding" Al-Muchlisin Taklim Council BTN Purnasari Leuwiliang. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with a field study approach (field research). Data collection techniques through observation, documentation and interviews. This research method uses the triangulation method of data sources by conducting interviews with the main subjects, namely the teachers, administrators and congregation of the women of the Al-Muchlisin taklim assembly. The results of this study show that the implementation of Islamic religious education can improve the religious understanding of the women of the Al-Muchlisin taklim assembly seen from their mastery of the material obtained in terms of faith, ubudiyah to Allah and good morals that are applied in everyday life.
 Keywords: Implementation, Islamic Religious Education, Religious Understanding

Research on the Optimal Strength Curve of Athletes Based on EVP Model

As one of the world's favorite extreme sports, bicycle racing gives people a physical workout and is in line with today's global community's advocacy of low carbon. The individual time trial and team time trial in bicycle racing is a great challenge for athletes. In this sport, different athletes have different power curves, and athletes have to adjust their power curves according to the actual situation during the ride. And when and where athletes adjust their power usually determines whether they can win the race or not. Therefore, in order to find the best power adjustment strategy, we build a mathematical model for determining the relationship between rider's position on the track and rider's power, as well as the power profiles of athletes on specific tracks, and try to apply it on any type of riders.

Evidence centered design framework and dynamic bayesian network for modeling learning progression in online assessment system.

An overarching mission of the educational assessment community today is strengthening the connection between assessment and learning. To support this effort, researchers draw variously on developments across technology, analytic methods, assessment design frameworks, research in learning domains, and cognitive, social, and situated psychology. The study lays out the connection among three such developments, namely learning progressions, evidence-centered assessment design (ECD), and dynamic Bayesian modeling for measuring students’ advancement along learning progression in a substantive domain. Their conjunction can be applied in both formative and summative assessment uses. In addition, this study conducted an application study in domain of beginning computer network engineering for illustrating the ideas with data drawn from the Cisco Networking Academy’s online assessment system.

Subalternity and Linguistic Dispossession: On the Planning of the Galician-Portuguese in the Autonomous Galicia

We start from the centrality attributed in the analysis to the concept of subalternity (Gramsci), and we review the bibliography and the different positions related to the planning of the corpus, the status, and the acquisition of Galician in the autonomous period (1981-2021). After identifying the normative and ideological elements on which subalternity rests in each of these three areas of linguistic planning, we summarize the positions and programmatic proposals of the main groups that participate in the political-linguistic debate in autonomous Galicia. We review the legal-political framework enshrining the «subordinate co-officiality» (Carvalho Calero) and regulating the presence of Galician in compulsory education from the end of the Franco regime until decree 79/2010 currently in force. We synthesize the process of coding Galician in contemporary times in relation to the groups involved, the alleged coding criteria and the results regarding the relationship between Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. We confirm that the socialisation of linguistic and ideological materials subordinated to Spanish (also not referenced in the other Galician-Portuguese norms) means a break with the idea of a central language in the tradition of pre-autonomous Galicianism and minimises the impact of the linguistic interference of Spanish in Galician, at the same time that it does not provide sufficient materials to stop it and reverse it. We conclude that the idea of language and the autonomous legal-political framework enshrine subalternity and explain the progress of the linguistic-cultural interference and substitution process that leads to the linguistic dispossession that threatens the Galician community today.
 Received: 30 April 2022Accepted: 20 May 2022

POTENSI MINYAK KAYU PUTIH (Melaleuca cajuputi) SEBAGAI SUMBER BAHAN AKTIF DALAM PEMBUATAN HAND SANITIZER LIDAH BUAYA

Hand sanitizer as a medium to maintain hand hygiene is becoming a trend among the community today, especially because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hand sanitizers with active ingredients of essential oils are considered safer than alcohol. The purpose of this research was to examine the addition of cajuput oil in the manufacture of aloe vera hand sanitizer on the physical quality, antiseptic and organoleptic activity of the hand sanitizer produced. The research design used a completely randomized design (CRD) with one factor, namely the addition of cajuput oil, with five treatment levels, namely 0 mL, 16 mL, 20 mL, 24 mL, and 28 mL with each treatment in three replications. The hand sanitizer produced was then tested for physical characteristics (density, spreadability, pH, and homogeneity), antiseptic activity, and organoleptic characteristics (color, texture, aroma and non-sticky impression). The results showed that the aloe vera hand sanitizer sample with the addition of 28 mL cajuput oil had a stronger antiseptic effectiveness among other samples and had physical characteristics that met the quality requirements of SNI hand sanitizer including pH 7.33, spreadability 6.96 cm, density 1.1546, homogeneous without any coarse grains and organoleptically acceptable and favored by the panelists.

The Common Good Tradition from Madison to Rawls

Abstract Americans interested in community today often lament precisely what conservative Americans prize: the perceived emphasis on individual rights and absence of explicit endorsements of civic duty, collective authority, and social equality in our eighteenth-century founding documents. Many who are familiar with the influence John Rawls had on contemporary political theory likewise fault him for prioritizing liberty over equality, a preference widely criticized by communitarians insisting that the common good is the proper end and measure of government. This article challenges those understandings of our nation’s founding, and of Rawls’s work, in order to show that concerns with the common good run as deeply through American history as do celebrations of individual rights.

Location of historic mass graves from the 1919 Spanish Influenza in the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg using geophysics

The Spanish Influenza of 1919 had a devastating effect on Aboriginal Australian communities, particularly Cherbourg (formerly known as Barambah Aboriginal Reserve), which resulted in a loss of ~15% of their population. Deaths happened so quickly that coffins were not built and, in some cases, trenches or mass graves were used to inter the dead in addition to individual graves. Although the trench locations were formally unknown by the Cherbourg community today, a major concern of the Cherbourg Elders is that they wanted to memorialise those affected by the 1919 pandemic, especially 100 years later. One attempt to locate the mass graves was to apply geophysical methods in the New and Old Cherbourg cemeteries to detect these unmarked burials. Our paper demonstrates how ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and magnetic gradiometry were used along with oral histories and Indigenous knowledge to detect three mass graves associated with the Spanish Influenza. Outcomes such as this play an important role is supporting ‘Truth Telling’ for the Cherbourg Aboriginal community.

On the Relevance of Using Education Platforms in Higher Education Institutions: Pros and Cons of Using Moodle for Teaching Foreign Languages at Baikal State University

The article deals with the problem of using online and digital education platforms and its urgency for the modern system of national education, which is going through big changes due to the pandemics conditions at present, which proves the relevancy of the issue under study. The text focuses on the problem of digitalization as a global trend in the world and in our country, highlighting some risks and negative effects the trend may cause for the society and national system of education. The main subject of the present research is Moodle-system, a popular modern platform for on-line education, which is widely used in the higher institutions around the world and actively discussed by professional community today. The effectiveness and productivity of the platform is considered as the main issue in the text, which also defines its advantages and disadvantages for framing the teaching process in our universities. Special attention is paid to the pros and cons of Moodle in terms of its application at Baikal State University, particularly for teaching foreign languages. The research provides conclusions and practical recommendations concerning the most effective usage of online platforms.