Analysis of an E-learning Platform use by Means of the Axiomatic Design

The Moodle platform, which was proposed and initially developed by Martin Dougiamas, improves the didactic process by helping professors to generate and publish online content. This enables more intense interaction and collaboration during the design of educational curricula. The use of Moodle platforms is continuously increasing and the platform itself is under continuous development. The improvement and use of the Moodle platform correspond to a design process and therefore can be analyzed using axiomatic design principles. In this paper, customer needs were taken into consideration, functional requirements were formulated and design parameters specific to the use of the Moodle platform were determined in the context of the didactic activities deployed in a technical university. The analysis of the way in which the content of Moodle platform is used by means of the axiomatic design tools could facilitate a clearer definition of the customer needs and more adequate inclusions of documents and tools on the platform content in order to satisfy the customers’ needs. The analysis highlights some directions in order to improve the efficiency of the use of the Moodle platform.