Evaluating Moodle's Impact on Student Learning at UWTSD London

This research report evaluates the impact of the Moodle virtual learning environment on students at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) London Campus. The report begins with an introduction outlining the background, aim, objectives, research questions, and rationale for the study. A literature review explores themes related to Moodle, including its introduction, importance in virtual learning, advantages and disadvantages, and its impact on students. The methodology section details the research design, type, data collection methods (primary and secondary), data analysis techniques (thematic analysis), and sampling procedures. The data analysis chapter presents findings based on the collected data, examining themes such as awareness of Moodle, usage of virtual learning tools, the effectiveness of virtual learning programs, opportunities in the education sector, benefits of virtual learning, and the applicability of virtual learning for all students. The report concludes with a summary of the findings, recommendations, and a list of references, along with an appendix containing the questionnaire used in the research. The report highlights the positive impact of Moodle on student learning, emphasizing its flexibility and resource capabilities.

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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION-300...........................................................................................3
Title..............................................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
Aim..............................................................................................................................................3
Objectives....................................................................................................................................3
Research Questions......................................................................................................................3
Rationale......................................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 2 - LITERATURE REVIEW........................................................................................4
Theme: 1 Introduction to Moodle................................................................................................4
Theme: 2 Importance of Virtual Learning with Moodle.............................................................4
Theme: 3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtual Learning through Moodle........................4
Theme: 4 Impact of Virtual Learning..........................................................................................5
CHAPTER 3 - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY............................................................................5
CHAPTER 4 - DATA ANALYSIS.................................................................................................5
Theme 1 Awareness of Moodle as virtual learning tool..............................................................5
Theme 2: Use of Virtual learning process...................................................................................6
Theme: 3 Effectiveness of Virtual learning program..................................................................7
Theme: 4 Opportunities of virtual Learning in education sector.................................................8
Theme: 5 Benefit of virtual learning............................................................................................8
Theme: 6 Applicability of virtual learning for all Students.........................................................9
RECOMMENDATION.................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................12
Questionnaire.............................................................................................................................12

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION-300
Title
To evaluate the impact of virtual learning Environment – moodle on students: A
case Study on learning experience in University of Wales Trinity Saint David London
Campus.
Background
As the development of digital technology, it has huge impact on different fields. For
example in business organization, eduction sector, political sector and hospitality sector. Role of
digital technology is also high on education sector (Cohen and Sasson, 2016). In different ways
education institutes are using digital technology to develop concept of virtual learning. This can
improve the learning process of student and provide them flexibility of gaining information to
improve their knowledge. This is more efficient than traditional method of providing education
to students. In current time most of educational organization are using digital technology to
educate children.
Aim
To study the impact of virtual learning environment – Moodle on students.
Objectives
 To understand the concept of Moodle in Virtual Learning.
 To evaluate the importance of Moodle in student Learning process.
 To analyse advantage and disadvantage of Moodle.
 To study impact of virtual learning on education of students.
Research Questions
1. What is Moodle in education process.
2. Why Moodle is important for virtual education?
3. What are advantages and disadvantages of Moodle?
4. What is impact of Virtual Learning on Education of students?
Rationale
The virtual learning is considered as the future of education sector where people can read
and learn new things and develop better knowledge on certain topics. The over all purpose of
implementing virtual learning is about improve the education. This topic is considered for
research because this is future of the education sector. By considering this research other

researchers and educational organization can implement effective changes in their education
program. This research also can be used by other researcher as base to preform further research
work. This is how it can help the education sector to develop positive changes in the virtual
learning program.
CHAPTER 2 - LITERATURE REVIEW
Theme: 1 Introduction to Moodle
Moodle is one of the most famous free and open source learning management system that
is written in PHP and distributed under the General Public Licenses (GNU). This is considered as
online platform that allows the people to take advantage of free online courses and lessons that
are focused on interactive and collaborative construction content. As per Phungsuk,
Viriyavejakul and Ratanaolarn, (2017) this is one of the best method to provide education to
students because this can allow them to develop personal centric educational program without
spending too much money. This is also consist of different tests and evaluations process analyse
the effectiveness of student in Moodle process.
Theme: 2 Importance of Virtual Learning with Moodle
According to Vuopala, Hyvönen and Järvelä, (2016) virtual learning can be used by all
educational organization which are situated in urban or suburban areas. This is also effective for
education program in remote areas. It can reduce the load on the teachers and other authorities in
planing education program for students. Moodle program is also cost and time efficient for
organization. It provides the time and place related flexibility to student and tutor to attend and
plan test for students. By this process education sector can improve their sustainability through
reducing the use of paper in the educational programs.
Theme: 3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtual Learning through Moodle
In opinion of Songkram, (2015) virtual learning process have more advantage then
disadvantages. The main advantage of virtual learning is about easy tracking and monitoring
process it also improves the learning capability of individual person. This can save time and
money of both education institute and students. The process of communication and connection
process is too easy in this process of education. There are some disadvantage of this process of
education because it is based on technology and it can be affected by different other factors that
are related to technology. There are some technical limitation of virtual learning it needs
different resources like internet connection and physical and virtual devices to improve the

performance of the virtual learning program. It can restrict people to access the Moodle test in
virtual educational program.
Theme: 4 Impact of Virtual Learning
According Hall and Stewart, (2017) impact of virtual learning is huge on educational
programs because this is directly related to student and tutors. This is a process to provide better
resources to students in order to develop their knowledge and information. This can force the
education to make effective changes in the education process to void any kind of issue in the
learning program. The impact of virtual learning is both positive and negative on the educational
environment. Positive impact of this technology is about getting more opportunities in education
planning and negative imapact is related to the structure of education sector. This technology can
force the authorities to implement major changes in the educational institutes.
CHAPTER 3 - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Design- This is a frame work that is used by researcher to perform complete research
work in research paper. There are different research designs are available that can be
implemented in the research process (Whicher, Philbin and Aronson, 2018). In this research
exploratory research design is used because the purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact
of virtual learning on students.
Research Type- This is about the nature of the research report. There are two research types are
available in research process which are qualitative and quantitative. For this research qualitative
research type is used to develop the information on virtual learning programs.
Data Collection- There are two main type of data collection process used in the research work
which are primary and secondary data (Mohajan, 2018). In this research both primary and
secondary data is collected in order to get better and precise conclusion.
Data Analysis- The data analysis technique used in this research is thematic analysis where all
the perspective of the collected data is analysed through by making relevant themes.
Sampling- There are different people are included in the research process to gain the primary
data in order to generate precise result for result. In this research work random sampling is used
where 15 different students are contacted to gain information and data.
CHAPTER 4 - DATA ANALYSIS
Theme 1 Awareness of Moodle as virtual learning tool.
Question: Do you know about the virtual learning tool Frequency

Moodle?
 Yes 13
 No 2
Interpretation-
According to the data collected from the 15 different respondents there are 13 people out
of 15 are ware of Moodle tool that is used in the virtual learning process. There are rest 2
respondents who were not aware of this and they have not used this for their personal learning
program. As per collected data there most of the students are aware of this virtual learning
process that is used by the educational organization to provide learning opportunities to students.
Theme 2: Use of Virtual learning process
Question: Have you ever used this tool in learning process? Frequency
 Yes 11
 No 4
Yes
No
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Column D

Interpretation
As per the above data when respondents were asked that “Have they used this technology
to gain information”, the response of people were like- 11 respondents out of 15 have already
used Moodle for learning process and 4 respondents have not used this tool in educational
program. As per above data it can be said that most of people have already used this tool in
learning process where they have learn the various type of information through Moodle.
Theme: 3 Effectiveness of Virtual learning program
Question : Virtual Learning is Effective for Learning
programs?
Frequency
A) Agree 2
B) Strongly Agree 8
C) Disagree 2
D) Strongly Disagree 1
E) Not Sure 2
Interpretation
Yes
No
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Column D

As per the response gained from respondents about this statement there are 2 people are
agreed to this comment and 8 respondents are strongly agreed to this statement. 3 respondents
have provided negative response for this statement where 2 of them were disagreed to the
statement and 1 person have shown strict negative review on this question. As per the collected
data most of people are considering this tool as positive tool for the learning process that is used
by University of Wales Trinity Saint David London Campus.
Theme: 4 Opportunities of virtual Learning in education sector.
Question: Do you think it provide better opportunities to
students to gain information and knowledge?
Frequency
 Yes 13
 No 2
Interpretation
As per the response of respondents there are 13 people are agreed to this statement and
rest of 2 have shown negative response. Majorly the response collected in this process are in
Yes
No
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Column D

favour of statement. These 13 respondents are considering virtual learning process as opportunity
for both tutors and students to gain more effective information to develop knowledge.
Theme: 5 Benefit of virtual learning.
Question : What is main benefit of virtual learning practice
tools?
Frequency
A) Flexibility 1
B) Large Resource 2
C) Sustainability 1
D) All of Above 9
E) Neutral 2
Interpretation
As per the response collected form the respondents, 1 respondent is considering that
flexibility is one of the most important benefit of virtual learning. 2 respondents out of 15 are
considering virtual learning important because according to them greater resource capability of
A) Flexibility
B) Large Resource
C) Sustainability
D) All of Above
E) Neutral
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Column D

virtual tool. 1 respondent is considering it useful cause of its sustainability and response of 2
people was neutral in this case of virtual learning.
Theme: 6 Applicability of virtual learning for all Students.
Question. It is applicable for all educational institutes? Frequency
Yes 13
No 2
Interpretation
As per the data collected in the primary research there are 13 respondents are considering
that this process of virtual learning is applicable for all Students because of easy implementation
process. The 2 respondents said that this is not possible to apply this tool in all organization due
to technical limitations. So it can be said that as per above data virtual learning can be
implemented in the all educational organization to provide information and knowledge to
different students.
CONCLUSION
This research is concluding the importance of virtual learning tool Moodle for education
program for students. From the data collected in research it ca be concluded that the impact of
virtual learning process is huge on students because this virtual learning is focused on the needs
and knowledge requirements of students. There are both primary and secondary data has been
collected in order to evaluate the response of the student about the learning process with help of
virtual learning tool Moodle. This process is used by most educational organization to provide
effective education to student. It is applicable in different group of students because there are
various courses are there which can help the student to gain information and evaluate their
performance. From the research work it can be concluded that the impact of virtual learning tool
Moodle is positive for students
RECOMMENDATION
There are different tools and technologies are used in the education sector to improve the
efficiency of the system to deliver better services to the students as per their individual needs.
This is very difficult for the educational organization to plan process of information delivery to
the each students. This can take long time in education delivery and also it can reduce the
capability of the education system (Cheok. and Wong, 2016). To improve the capability of the

eduction system eduction organization can different tools and technology like AI and automation
to automatically plan the education program for students to save their time and improve their
performance with time. It also can provide opportunity to the students to attend this education
program as per their learning speed. Implementation of AI can provide better efficiency to the
virtual learning process due to its self learning capability.

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APPENDIX
Questionnaire
1. Do you know about the virtual learning tool Moodle?
A) Yes
B) No
2. Have you ever used this tool in learning process?
A) Yes
B) No
3. Virtual Learning is Effective for Learning programs?
A) Agree
B) Strongly Agree
C) Disagree
D) Strongly Disagree
E) Not Sure
4. Do you think it provide better opportunities to students to gain information and
knowledge?
A) Yes
B) No
5. What is main benefit of virtual learning practice tools?
A) Flexibility
B) Large Resource
C) Sustainability
D) All of Above
E) Neutral
6. It is applicable for all students?
A) Yes
B) No