THE EFFICIENCY OF MOODLE PLATFORM IN UNIVERSITY TEACHING PROCESS

It has been established that the Moodle platform is the most convenient system for university teaching process. Among the existing educational electronic programs Moodle has proved to be the most efficient one. Moodle is characterized by user-friendliness, clear course space and context-sensitive help. Moodle makes it possible to quickly integrate materials and learning activities directly into a course date or subject area as well as to support and promote communication and collaboration. Moodle 3.5 is now available with a wider range of options. The role of teachers has completely changed. Nowadays the teachers hardly have still direct influence on the process of knowledge acquisition as the learners acquire the necessary information themselves. The teachers fulfil mainly the role of a learning helper, a learning advisor. Among the disadvantages of the Moodle system have been outlined fears of new technologies or their lack and the fact thatrelation to the portability of materials through electronic form is usually convenient, but not always 100% better than traditional textbooks. The advantages appeared to be more obvious and claim that the use of the educational Moodle platform promotes the development of positive motivation, cognitivity and enables to be independent on space and time and determine an individual pace of learning. The motivating factor has been recognized the fact that learning materials can be uploaded in the form of many media and learners can be directed to the relevant sources, because 'links' can also be embedded. Moodle provides such options as 'forum', 'wiki', 'chat' and 'glossaries'. These provide deeper interaction between the participants of the educational process.