Use of Moodle Platforms in Higher Education: A Chilean Case

The vast majority of universities in the western world have integrated an online learning platform in their campus, to help teachers and to go with the times, the most used technology is a learning management system (LMS by the acronym in English learning management system), being Moodle the most used LMS platform in the world, because, compared with other web applications is more effective and feasible for educational use, besides is an open source platform that is mostly free.

Thus, the objective of this article is to analyze and compare the perceptions of students, teachers and find out the advances in one particular case. For this, we used a survey design with a sample of 178 students and 87 teachers of different majors at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. The results highlight the importance giving to the use of Moodle for both, the university teaching to display the organization of courses material, and the use to exchange information. Students show a high degree of satisfaction with the technology but recognize very little use of the tools. The migration of the site version represented a setback in the use of the platform.