Online Education
Program in teaching and learning online
Second course: How to develop an online course
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 course will provide participants with the basic elements for the production of online courses. Topics include the characteristics and difficulties of online teaching strategies for the production of online courses and evaluation methods.
Specific objectives
- To identify the tutor’s specific characteristics and abilities for implementing learning strategies and achieving teaching improvement.
- To learn how to use online education tools available in most virtual platforms.
- To practice different online education evaluation mechanisms, its limitations and peculiarities.
Course contents
Unit 1: Role of virtual tutors
- Distinctive characteristics of virtual tutors
- Practical work performed by virtual tutors
- Difficulties for virtual tutoring
- Importance of detecting different students' needs
Unit 2: Course design
- Basic tools found in most virtual platforms
- Technical design strategies
- Didactic materials: issues of confidentiality and copyright
Unit 3: On-line education evaluation
- Continuous evaluation
- Different kinds of evaluation
- Evaluation of forums
- Students' follow-up
Academic team
General Coordinator and Facilitator: Marta Graciela Cabeza M.A.
Academic Coordinator: Diego De la Quintana Rodríguez
Technical Coordinator: Manuel F. Rebollo
Administrative Coordinator: Beatriz Herrera
Duration and cost
The course is 8 weeks long and it is expected that participants spend approximately 10 hours a week to successfully complete the course.
Duration: April 28 to June 20, 2008
Registration fee is USD 200 and entitles you to:
- All material (compulsory and additional) offered electronically (available to download) through the Virtual Campus.
- Permanent tutoring by high academic level professors throughout the course.
- Communication software for network learning.
- Technical support for the use of specific software and for the development of the course.
- Certificate of satisfactory completion of the course.
A CD with the content of the course will be available upon request for those who have difficulties accessing the Internet.
Register early and receive a 25% discount on tuition.
Registration now open
For further information, please contact Beatriz Herrera
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