Using LMS Moodle and Youtube Tools to Create Video Courses With Educational Expert System Features for Informatics e-learning

Abstract

Online video courses using the LMS Moodle tools to teach students of economics specialties who are studying informatics as a basic discipline in their first year have been created in the university’s virtual learning environment. A feature of such video courses is the presence of a significant number of author’s video resources for all topics of the academic discipline and some elements of educational expert system. Video resources are available on the YouTube video hosting channel. They include video lectures, where the theoretical information of the course is presented, and video materials with examples of solving laboratory practice problems. According to the results of the approbation of the video course, it is claimed that it creates an effective basis for students to study the discipline independently, as it provides both online delivery of educational text and video materials and methodical support both to the lecture hall, to the computer laboratory, and to the student’s home workplace. The technical and methodical aspects of the implementation of face-to-face, blended and distance learning using the developed video courses were investigated. Some elements of the educational expert system that automate the learning process have been implemented. Systems of automated control and self-control of knowledge, initial and final control, and programmed electronic journal with teachers’ evaluations and feedback have been developed. Taking into account the force majeure circumstances caused by the state of war, which disrupt the continuity of the educational process, the described experience of blended and distance learning can be useful not only for teaching informatics, but also for organizing the education of other disciplines.