Online Education
Program in teaching and learning online
First course: What is virtual education?
This course will be delivered in Spanish. Nevertheless, bilingual on-line support will be available to all English speaking people wishing to take this course.
This introductory course will provide participants with the conceptual, theoretical and practical basis of online education.
Specific objectives
- To understand technological means applied in the online teaching-learning process.
- To familiarize participants with adult learning characteristics and to identify the needs of online learners.
- To learn about distance learning curriculum.
Course contents
Unit 1: Online education approaches
- Definition of e-learning
- Why online teaching?
- Difference between online and distance learning
- E-learning problems
- Learning communities
- Quality standardization in online education
Unit 2: Online education learning process
- Learning and constructivism
- Significant vs. repetitive learning
- Training methodologies
- The teaching-learning process
- Learning evaluation
Unit 3: Online curriculum
- Components of an online curriculum
- Design of an online curriculum
- Levels of design of an online curriculum
- Aspects of a didactic unit
Academic team
General Coordinator and Facilitator: Marta Graciela Cabeza
Academic Coordinator: Amelia Garrett
Technical Coordinator: Manuel F. Rebollo
Administrative Coordinator: Beatriz Herrera
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