DEVELOPING A CONCEPT FOR LATIN LANGUAGE AND MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY EXERCISES IN AN INTERNET-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The path to developing academic education goes through its modernization and integration of digital forms of learning and knowledge testing in all higher education institutions. The digital platform Blackboard in the Medical University of Varna has huge potential for innovative planning and configuring of the learning process, which can greatly motivate students and increase their success rate in various subjects. Digital learning enriches the standard concept of teaching, studying, and testing through interactive learning methods that are appealing to the students. The discipline Latin Language and Medical Terminology in medical universities throughout the country is still not using those potential resources, as they are only applied in electronic testing in the Medical University of Varna. This is the reason for the relevance of the current work.

The object of research is gaining knowledge in Medical Terminology through adaptation of traditional forms of learning to the contemporary requirements of digital learning in the field of the currently studied at the medical universities discipline Latin Language and Medical Terminology.

This work examines the knowledge and skills that the exercises for preparation for the subject aim at developing and offers typology of exercises in the internet-based learning environment. It states current problems in the preparation of interactive exercises and examines their possible solutions.

The goal of this work is the creation of a scientific base and principles of making digital exercises in Latin Language and Medical Terminology, through which the students can elevate their terminological competency in Latin medical terminology, while guiding the leaning process and methods of studying on their own.