Online Education
Program in teaching and learning online
Program in teaching and learning online
Third course: Tools for production of online courses
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 intends to identify and characterize technologic tools used in online environments, by means of the knowledge acquired during this module and later on the appropriate selection of their best usage.
Specific objectives
- Understanding the principles behind Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and their importance to the educational process.
- Comprehending important e-learning concepts.
- Defining and characterizing teaching resources in e-learning environments.
- Discriminate between e-learning platforms varieties.
- Get acquainted with the new trends in educational technology.
Course contents
Unit 1: Information and Communication Technologies
- Concepts
- Information
- ICTs in education
- Advantages of education with ICTs
- ICTs usage and virtualization levels in education
- Distance education trends
- Benefits from the human-computer interaction
- Telecommunication in education
Unit 2: E-learning
- E-learning definition
- E-learning components
- E-learning and distance education
Unit 3: E-learning environments
- Concepts
Unit 4: E-learning technological tools
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Unit 5: Implementing technological tools while developing contents
- Introduction
- Important concepts
- Electronic notes
- Audio and video
- Hypertext
- Support software for online courses development
Unit 6: E-learning tools and new trends in educational technology
- Introduction
- Basic technology
- Tools for asynchronous interaction
Academic team
General Coordinator: Marta Graciela Cabeza
Facilitator: Marcelo Pinto Macedo
Academic Coordinator: Amelia Garrett
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: September 29 to November 23, 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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