The Application of Learning Management Systems in Chemistry Teacher Trainees' Practical Courses
Year: 2012
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: During the last few years learning management systems, such as Stud.IP, Moodle or ILIAS have gained an increasing acceptation as supporting tool for teaching at university. Thus, these systems are already used intensively for the management and distribution of teaching materials, like lecture notes, documents and exercises, as well as for the extensive administration of courses. Additionally, attractive teaching materials containing multimedia-based elements and interactive components can easily be created by utilization of such systems. In the following article, the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) is briefly depicted. Then, for a general understanding of learning management systems, a short report on the ILIAS-learning software is given. After that we present how learning management systems can be used to implement training videos and new types of tasks to help students acquiring practical skills in the laboratory. Based on this, we present an ILIAS-conception for a beginner´s laboratory course for chemistry teachers. At the end of the course that concept was evaluated with a questionnaire study concerning the subjectively-felt-quality (N=52). The results of this study reveal that first-year students are able to develop a more precise idea of the laboratory´s procedure, are feeling better-prepared and are more confident in their practical operation compared to script-based learning.
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2115771077