INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE(BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AT THE UCM AND THE E-LEARNING CENTRE AT THE MSLU)
Since 2003, the UCM avails of an online educational space, called the Virtual Campus, through which, among other potential uses, teaching staff develop a set of resources for their students using the LMS Moodle. Instructors highly appreciate the usefulness and value of the Virtual Campus for their teaching. They are in clear agreement that it helps them to be efficient in their course delivery. In examining the specifics of the kinds of advantages using Moodle offers, there is no clear, unanimous opinion, although opinions on potential disadvantages are also divided. Teaching foreign languages online began at the MSLU 2016 with the establishment of the E-Learning Centre. The activity of this department was aimed at rapid development of online, short-term foreign language courses of different kinds. As a learning platform, the LMS Moodle 3.0+ is being used. The experience of the E-Learning Center at the Moscow State Linguistic University and the Faculty for Education at the UCM in using the LMS Moodle for the implementation of distance and full-time educational programs shows that the following questions deserve close attention, answers to which will improve the quality of the learning process: further development of ICT- competence of teachers and students; development of special methods for using learning management systems in higher education; deepening experience exchange between the MSLU and the UCM in the field of using LMSs for the realization of a wide range of educational programs.