Abstract

DREIZZEN, Eduardo; ZANGARA, Alejandra  and  SPINELLI, Osvaldo. Formación de docentes de la carrera de Medicina en el diseño de contenidos educativos mediante Moodle. Rev. iberoam. tecnol. educ. educ. tecnol. [online]. 2014, n.13, pp.72-79. ISSN 1851-0086.

The design and development of digital materials in higher education using digital technology needs a deep thought about the way of teaching. The training of teachers as producers and editors of educational resources is a major challenge in view of the implementation of educational projects in digital environments. The production of educational contents has been included in the training courses of Educational Technology for teachers at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, UNLP. Special attention has been paid to several components: objectives, structure, the use of technology, and didactic transposition (defined as the transformation that a body of knowledge undergoes in order to be taught). This paper describes the implementation of a learning activity that shows the possibilities of didactic transposition of study materials using Moodle and educational software. The attendees read two articles referred to the PubMed bibliographic database and subsequently several possibilities of processing this material were shown: links to websites, folders, text documents, labels, presentations in PDF and flash formats, videos, concept maps, glossaries, quizzes and forums about clinical cases. These resources and activities could meet various learning objectives and be used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. The production of educational materials is an important subject in teachers training programs. This experience shows a path into this issue.

Keywords : Computer-assisted instruction; Distance learning; Medical education; Moodle; Teaching materials; Virtual learning environments.