Virtual Learning Environments in Education - 4 Version

The University of Azuay and the Federation of Catholic educational establishments of Azuay (FEDEC) made an agreement for the training of teachers of their educational institutions through the Departments of Continuous Training and Open University of the University of Azuay.

This course is aimed at teachers of educational institutions and will promote critical reflection on educational theories, pedagogy and didactics in the context of teaching work with new information and communication technologies (ICT), and their curricular integration. The experience of the teachers will be taken as a starting point.

General Objective:

Encourage in teachers critical reflection on the new ways of learning by students through the development of competences directed to virtual learning environments (VLE) and accompanying students in their training process mediated by ICT.

Specific objectives:

• Reflect on the impact of ICT in education and its curricular integration, from a humanistic perspective.
• Design your virtual chairs.
• Train in the use of the tools offered by ICT in their chairs.

Methodology

The shared learning system that we propose will collect the best of the face-to-face and the virtual in what is called the b-learning (blended learning), which will allow us to rescue the importance of face-to-face contact and the benefits of information and communication technologies. In addition, it will make it possible to contribute to the change in educational philosophy, which goes from being focused on teaching (teacher activity) to focusing on learning (construction of students).

The UDA virtual classroom is based on a Web platform called Moodle (Modular objectorientddistancelearningenviroment) that allows students and teachers to expand their interactivity, access pages on the Internet, use e-mail as a tool for learning, access content with hypertext format, participate in forums, chats and virtual classes.

 Students will carry out virtual tutoring simulations and virtual chair design in a classroom prepared for this purpose. In addition, they will experience each of the virtual tools and the pedagogical proposal of our virtual learning environment.

Virtual Tutoring:

Tutoring is the communication space to design agreements, individual or group plans, trajectories and academic strategies so that each individual who is being trained is much more competent. (Guadalajara)

The tutoring is aimed at revitalizing the teaching practice, providing participants with personalized or group attention during their training process, thus allowing clear and timely detection of factors that may affect the academic performance of the participants, the tutor is co-manager of the participants, which helps both in global training and in knowledge management.

The tutorials will be carried out through the Zoom and Meet videoconferencing platforms (Frequent inquiries from participants, concerns, etc.)

Total 60 hours:

24 synchronous hours

24 hours asynchronous on virtual platform

12 hours of virtual tutoring

Schedules:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Friday: 8h00 tutorials

The course is structured by 6 thematic blocks:

1. Information and Communication Technologies in Education

2. Learning theories

3. Curriculum design and ICT

4. Methodological strategies and ICT

5. Evaluation and ICT

6. Impact of ICT on learning processes

A certificate of approval of the Virtual Learning Environment Course in Education will be issued, with the academic endorsement of the University of Azuay, with the requirement of passing 70% of the evaluation.

Teachers of the educational institutions of the FEDEC Azuay

Teachers of educational institutions

Teachers of the University of Azuay

mgt. Carlos Guevara Toledo

mgt. Juan Carlos Lazo Galan

Eng. Rodrigo Cabrera Navarro

mgt. Christian Cornejo Pulla

General Public $ 120.00

All debit and credit cards are accepted.

General Public $ 120.00 code 1246

Professors of the FEDEC and the University of Azuay $ 70.00 code 1247

Fully virtual classes

formacion.continua@uazuay.edu.ec