“Moodle” virtual tool to support teaching, in the Bachelor of Education degree Chemistry

Abstract

Moodle offers Higher Education a robust and flexible interactive platform, which becomes a virtual space for teaching, where teachers and students come together to develop courses from an attractive and dynamic learning environment. This article describes how this tool can be efficiently integrated into the curriculum, in the initial training of professionals in the Bachelor of Education. Chemistry and be used as a support instrument, when addressing the content system corresponding to the subject "Safety Techniques", to familiarize students with work in the school chemical laboratory, encourage self-learning and cooperative learning, improve content management, evaluation, communication, collaboration and to provide an accessible, flexible and safe learning environment. Therefore, the objective of this work is: To assess the impact of the use of the interactive platform Moodle, as a support tool for teaching in the subject “Security Techniques”. The results obtained with the implementation of the proposal demonstrated that Moodle can constitute a valuable tool to support teaching and an effective strategy to encourage active learning, participation and practical preparation in students, from a safe and controlled environment.