Virtual Methods for Teaching Educational Astronomy

In the didactic activity, in order to carry out the teaching-learning process, the teacher uses different methods, depending on the specifics and the topics taught. The introduction of virtual learning information technologies in the educational environment has had a strong impact on teaching strategies and forms of training in the educational process. The computer together with the sources of information and documentation (Internet, encyclopedias, etc.) are the elements that make the interaction with the pupils and students. This paper aims to present and implement modern training methods, as efficiently as possible, through the online platforms Googleclass and Moodle, in our case, to teach an Astronomy course to students and pupils. We aim to highlight the content of an online course, with interactive assessment tests, scientific documentation, dictionaries and homework, coming to the support of distance students, respectively for the diversification of astronomy teaching methods. By accessing such online courses, students deepen the knowledge gained in the teaching-learning-assessment process. A whole set of information technologies facilitates the transmission of information, in which an efficient combination of classical teaching methods with modern virtual methods must be used, as well as an efficient use of didactic principles and forms of student organization to achieve high performance. Given the rapid pace at which electronic methods of storing, processing and transmitting information have evolved in recent decades, we expect the future to bring about equally dramatic transformations in the education process, with the further development of information technologies and their penetration. massive in everyday life. Starting from the theoretical and applied aspects, we performed in this paper a comparative statistical study between different teaching methods and their performance, depending on the results obtained by students following the application of new assessment methods. Each online learning platform contains different assessment methods, depending on the type of lessons taught. It is very important to promote virtual teaching methods, which have a lower share in the classical lessons, so the online assessment and self-assessment methods become efficient.