Resumen

LOPEZ, José M; ROMERO, Eva  y  ROPERO, Eva. Using Moodle to develop and assess competences in students. Form. Univ. [online]. 2010, vol.3, n.3, pp. 45-52. ISSN 0718-5006.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-50062010000300006.

The authors explain in this paper the use the Moodle platform as a tool to develop students' competences. Moodle has several options and resources that are usually employed for teaching and learning only. The authors give here a new viewpoint about using Moodle for developing and evalúate student's competences. The authors include their experiences of employing Moodle in different courses and majors in which they have lectured, in the developing student's abilities such as team working, responsibility, leadership, cooperation, communication skills, and initiative, among others. From the study and analysis it is concluded that Moodle contains tools that have proved to be good for developing some specific competences in students.

Palabras clave : competences; technology; Moodle; teaching-learning.