Šių laikų studentai nuotolines arba pusiau nuotolines studijas vertina ypač teigiamai. Patiems dėstytojams nebelieka kito pasirinkimo, kaip rengti savo studijų dalykus virtualiose mokymo/si aplinkose. Šio darbo tikslas yra pritaikyti virtualaus mokymo aplinką informatikos studijoms. Pagrindiniai uždaviniai – išanalizuoti dėstytojų poreikius; poreikių padengimą tradicinėmis Moodle priemonėmis ir papildomais moduliais; suformuoti eksperimentinę Moodle sistemą su įdiegtais papildiniais; sukurti tipinių dalykų grupių prototipus pateikimui Moodle sistemoje. Darbe analizuojama problema: virtuali mokymo/si aplinka (VMA) savo turimomis standartinėmis funkcijomis, neišpildo tikrųjų specifinių dėstytojų poreikių. Problemos sprendimui rasti atliktos dvi dėstytojų apklausos, išanalizuoti ir apibendrinti apklausų rezultatai. Remiantis apklausų rezultatais sudarytas reikiamų funkcijų sąrašas bei jų realizavimui atrinkti ir įdiegti Moodle papildiniai. Darbe pateikiamos papildinių įdiegimo ir naudojimo instrukcijos, sudaryti kiekvieno papildinio privalumų ir trūkumų sąrašai. Prie kai kurių funkcijų pateikta daugiau nei viena alternatyva. Darbas baigiamas sukonkretintomis išvadomis. Remiantis šiuo magistriniu darbu, sistemą bus pasiūlyta naudoti jau egzistuojančioje Vytauto Didžiojo Universiteto Informatikos fakulteto virtualioje mokymo aplinkoje (VDU IF Moodle), taip patenkinant dirbančiųjų dėstytojų esamus poreikius. / The nowadays students think of distance or blended learning studies very positively, so the lecturers are forced to prepare their teaching material in virtual learning environments (VLE). The aim of the study is to adapt virtual learning environment for studies of Informatics. The objectives of the study are to analyze the needs of lecturers; to examine the needs’ realization by standard Moodle tools and additional modules; to formulate experimental VLE Moodle with installed additional tools; to create the typical group subject prototypes for VLE Moodle. The study analyses the problem: VLE with standard functions does not fulfil the real, specific needs of lecturers. In order to find the problem solution, 2 surveys of lecturers were performed, survey results were analyzed and summarized. Based on the surveys’ results, the list of necessary functions was created and additional VLE Moodle tools were analyzed, chosen and installed. The instructions of tools installation and usage are described; lists of advantages and disadvantages of each additional tool are created. Some of the functions have more than one alternative suggested. The study is finalized with concrete conclusions. Based on this study, the existing VDU IF Moodle (VLE of the Informatics faculty, Vytautas Magnus University) will be suggested to be updated in order to fulfil the existing needs of Informatics faculty lecturers.

E-learning provides faster learning at reduced costs, increased access to learning, and clear accountability for all participants in the learning process. Benefits of this kind of learning are obvious. Western Europe or USA are far ahead creating virtual learning environments and we need to improve a lot in this field in Lithuania. The theme of the work is “Research of learning in e-School”. The result of that analysis was learning management system that enables instructors to create and manage web-based learning activities and course materials. There is possibility to individualize learning needs beside usual tools and methods. System user can estimate his knowledge and to watch the process of learning. Also student tracking has been done and it is the ability to track the usage of course materials by students, and to perform additional analysis and reporting both of aggregate and individual usage. Instructors can get a report that shows number of attempts and time per attempt on each assessment for individual students or report showing the duration of time each student or all students spent on course content. That can be very useful information for the future development of present e-course. In analysis process are viewed most popular e-learning systems like Moodle or WebCT. The system was designed with PHP, HTML and JavaScript programming languages, in concert with MySQL database management system. Rational Rose was used for designing and ULM diagrams, JavaScript – for... [to full text]