Week 1: Analysis of a Virtual Course

The first activity of our course is aimed at making students familiar with the new trends in education paradigms.

Specifically, it is meant to acquaint you with virtual courses as opposed to face-to-face courses, the latter forcing people to attend classroom on a regular basis.

Here you will find a pdf file with a module containing a list of activities for an English virtual course.

Read this course program and comment on the aspects that call your attention most.

You can look at the one we have done.

If it is the first time the student takes an online course, they might not be familiar with the methodology and the things they are going to find. That's why I find quite interesting the first module about how to make the most of the tools they are going to work with.

Another thing I wanted to mention is the personal record sheet. Although I think it could be annoying for students to fill it in, I think it will help them to know what they need to improve or what their weak points are. If I am not wrong, the personal record sheets should be kept in order to hand in at the end in the course project. I would find more profitable to send them to the teacher after each module so that the teacher has some feedback. Thus, they would improve the course organization depending on the needs of their students.

I totally agree with those of you who said that autonomous learning without motivation does not work at all. If you are not willing to do the work by yourself (active learner) and be organized, it is better to give it up!