Предности и недостаци система за подршку учењу у конструктивистичком приступу настави превођења из перспективе студената: Мудл и Едмондо
Student perspectives on the advantages and drawbacks of using learning management systems within a social-constructivist approach to translation teaching: Moodle and Edmodo

Summary/Abstract: One of the advantages of using learning management systems is that they can enable autonomous online interaction (AOI) among students; however, in practice, this interaction generally does not take place. This paper presents and compares the attitudes of students who used Moodle (N=48) and Edmodo (N=28) during a translation course from the English Studies programme at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, in the spring semester of academic year 2016-2017. The goal of this research was to obtain student views on the usefulness, user-friendliness and user satisfaction for both platforms, in order to determine whether the lack of AOI within a course could be related to the platform used. Data collection was performed by means of a Likert-scale, open-ended and closed questionnaires. The quantitative data thus obtained were analysed using descriptive statistics, a t-test for unpaired samples, and a Mann-Whitney U-test for comparing groups. While the translation course was taking place, AOI on both platforms was analysed to ascertain whether the possibility of posting direct comments within Edmodo leads to a higher AOI than with Moodle, which does not offer this facility. Analysis showed no statisticallysignificant differences between the two groups for any of the variables. The combined questionnaire showed that, when questioned about what they saw as the most important benefits, both groups attached lowest value to the opportunity to communicate with their peers, and this is reflected in the absence of this type of interaction throughout the study period across both platforms. The paper presents possible reasons why this might be the case, and suggestions for encouraging more of this type of interaction.

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