Moodle as Support for the Management of Educational Contents in Cuban Universities From the Perspective of the ELINF Project

Abstract

The present investigation aims to establish critical assessments of factors related to the management of educational content in the face of the pedagogical models of the 21st century characterized by the extensive and intensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); analyzes its operationalization through systems for learning management in general and Moodle in particular.
The elements that stimulate or are barriers to the application of the platform in the context of Cuban higher education are exposed. The contributions and developments are shown from the distinctive vision of the ELINF project, about the use of Moodle in the Cuban university, that stands out not only for the benefits that can be obtained from its management, but from those that can be achieved through the interoperability of the metadata of the platform with systems for learning and research in both the application ecosystem of the project itself and Cuban higher education in general; This creates the possibility of providing innumerable services and functionalities to support the research, teaching and learning processes both in the undergraduate and postgraduate fields, providing a framework for open education; elements that supports the objective four of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development established by the UN.