Adapted from https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-learning-getting-started/0/steps/7856
Virtual Learning Easily
Virtual Learning is like a flight with no end. It opens up a trip of countless possibilities. You know where you start, but you don’t know neither where it leads you, nor your final destiny. However, it facilitates knowledge at all levels. There are all kinds of positive outcomes of VLE, either for students or teachers.
To start with, Virtual Learning lets students work in collaboration with other peers, or help them develop their own process of critical thinking. It gives them freeway to take initiative in their own learning process.
Teachers might set assignments for students to write in collaboration using different tools, such as: wiki, and follow through their writing process by monitoring. So, students may get trained to be able to cope with real-life tasks and situations. Besides, the teacher can get instant feedback and scoring by using multiple choice quizzes, and practices. Moreover, the student can revisit the teacher’s course material. These strategies and resources to learn and teach are highly valuable. These tools should be integrated inside the regular curriculum and when designating it.
Many interesting activities are possible, such as discussion forums. Then, if worked properly all students will have opportunities to learn gaining independence while taking part of the general discussion. Additionally, these tools will provide the teachers with detailed data about the students as well as their engagement with materials and resources. This might help teachers to monitor students’ progress by using formative as well as summative assessment through Virtual Learning Environments.
Virtual Learning Easily
by Silvina Lopes Rossi
Virtual Learning is like a flight with no end. It opens up a trip of countless possibilities. You know where you start, but you don’t know neither where it leads you, nor your final destiny. However, it facilitates knowledge at all levels. There are all kinds of positive outcomes of VLE, either for students or teachers.
To start with, Virtual Learning lets students work in collaboration with other peers, or help them develop their own process of critical thinking. It gives them freeway to take initiative in their own learning process.
Teachers might set assignments for students to write in collaboration using different tools, such as: wiki, and follow through their writing process by monitoring. So, students may get trained to be able to cope with real-life tasks and situations. Besides, the teacher can get instant feedback and scoring by using multiple choice quizzes, and practices. Moreover, the student can revisit the teacher’s course material. These strategies and resources to learn and teach are highly valuable. These tools should be integrated inside the regular curriculum and when designating it.
Many interesting activities are possible, such as discussion forums. Then, if worked properly all students will have opportunities to learn gaining independence while taking part of the general discussion. Additionally, these tools will provide the teachers with detailed data about the students as well as their engagement with materials and resources. This might help teachers to monitor students’ progress by using formative as well as summative assessment through Virtual Learning Environments.
Hello Silvina, I like how you mixed this topic with a flying journey. I think you are quite right about the fact that using technology in class can possibly facilitate the way you go from the beginning to the end of a class stage. I wish we could all have chances to use technology in the class and taste the honeys of VLE.
ResponderEliminarCertainly, we should see VLE as something to enjoy both, teachers and students.
ResponderEliminarSilvina, I hope this first "endless" flight do have many stopovers in interesting material that can be used for the sake of learning and VLEs, too. Just imagine how you can be using this way of teaching to help your learners become more enticed by the activities.
ResponderEliminarSilvina, I like your metaphor to describe virtual learning. I totally agree with your when you say that we do not know the target destination of all this new adventure in education. Throughout all the years I have been teaching, I have seen many changes in education, I bet to say that virtual learning environment is one of the biggest changes that has revolutionazed and revitalized the way students learn. If these virtual learning environments will motivate students to be responsible of their own learning, I think that us as teachers should do what it takes to go along with our students in this adventurous flight that already started, but we do not know when it will end up.
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