CARE WHEN USING VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS.



Taken from;  https://www.digitallearninglab.org/investigating-virtual-learning-environments/


Written by Patricia Mauricio
EFL Teacher
Ministry of Education - Costa Rica
Educative Region of Coto.


Care  when using Virtual Learning Environments.


Virtual Learning environments must be understood as a tool that become great allies to the teachers and students.  These tools enhance teaching and learning process providing opportunities to develop what is called Global Competence. They can enrich and facilitate the teaching –learning process by offering a number of digital resources found and organize in these virtual spaces. These resources provide contents, promote creativity and critical thinking, and offer feedback among the participants using the web. Collaboration and Interactivity are at the base of these tools. These are the benefits of Virtual learning environments.
But as any tool, there are some aspects to take care about when using these tools to really achieve the mentioned benefits. According to Acuña Solano (2015) in his article “Sound Strategies for the Integration of both Open & Institutionally Supported Technologies in One’s Teaching”, there are four aspects to take care with virtual learning environments.
The first one is that the produced materials have an embedding code to make it the display of the material easier. The second one is the user needs to have some kind of expertise to control and regulate efficiently the virtual environment that is being used, other way it can become a bad idea to use it. The third aspect deals with the ability to exchange and to transform this exchange in a normal experience to get the best of the use of the virtual learning tool. Finally, it should be useful to have a printed guide to use it when a refreshment is needed. The author of the article recommends the use of tutorials.
These foour recommendations made us the teacher to be aware and concious about basic things we have to have in mind when using Virtual Learing Tools with our students. 
REFERENCES.

 - What is Virtual Learning Environment?
https://fireflylearning.com/what-is-a-virtual-learning-environment-vle

 - Sound Strategies for the Integration of both Open & Institutionally Supported Technologies 
in One’s Teaching. Acuña Solano, Jonathan. 2015.
http://reflective-online-teaching.blogspot.com/2015/08/sound-strategies-for-integration-of.html





Comments

  1. yerlinwillteachyousomething.blogspot.comMarch 9, 2019 at 7:22 AM

    Hello Pata!
    I think teachers should be good technology users and take advantages of the many uses technology can provide to students. There are lots of resources teachers can use in order to make classes different and more attractive to students.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

PROGRAMACIÓN EDUCATIVA INDIVIDUAL - ppt video online descargar

Image
SIGNIFICANT LEARNING ACCOMMODATION How to work according to Ministry of Education "Programación Educativa Individual".          Written by Licda. Patricia Mauricio Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Dear Collegues: One of the most delicate mandatory process, according to the 7600 Law, is the formulation of a pedagogic instrument, that serves as a guide of contents, methodologies and goals to facilitate learning, to all those students who, because of different reasons, need to adequate to their competence level, the formal program or syllabus. Ministry of Education calls this Instrument, “Programación Educativa Individual”. It is not easy to design this instrument. It is necessary to follow certain steps and to cover different aspects to design a technical, valuable and applicable instrument, that fits and fulfill students particular learning needs, intellectual capabilities and give real support to the stud...
Read more
Image
POWER POINT, ZOOM , YOU TUBE AND BLOGGER A mixture of virtual tools to connect teachers and students. Taken from Google Images. Written by Licda. Patricia Mauricio EFL Teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Introduction. How often is it possible to be benefit by the gift of learning to be able to use properly the difficult virtual tools? The experience was challenging… my classmates and I had to do an effort to complete the assigned tasks. Some of us finished soon, but some others took more time. The generation gap was evident during this learning experience. But it deserved the effort, the attention and the compromise. The experience was in benefit of our professional development and at the same time in benefit of our students. The tasks were done and accomplished the goals. The rest is to be engaged with the compromise with ourselves to keep on practicing, researching and improving the way we teach and the instruments we use....
Read more
Image
T HE  JOYFUL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN PRIMARY SCHOOL BY USING WEB 2.0 AND VIRTUAL TOOLS Created Using www.Fotor.com Images taken from Google Images Written and Designed by Licda. Patricia Mauricio EFL Teacher Ministry of Education Educative Region of Coto Introduction. If someone had ever told me that I was going to design learning materials that involved the use of virtual tools, I would have answered that for me it would be impossible because of my age and my lack of training about it. But, I am here at this point of my professional formation, discovering that with the correct guidance and practice, it is possible to improve and evolve toward the use of technology and virtual tools, and go hand in hand with the new useful, meaningful, interesting and colorful forms to teach English as a Foreign Language. SoundCloud, is one of the virtual tools that I am learning to use to produce my own teaching materials and to train my students about ...
Read more