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PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DISTANCE EDUCATION (TEACHING DESIGN (HOW TO PLAN…

- - - - the synchronous communication tools are those that allow real-time communication, for this the Participants must be connected at the same time. They are synchronous communication tools: the Chat, the videoconference, the msn, among others
    - - The main characteristics of asynchronous communication are:
        
        It is independent of the place. Communication occurs between two or more people who can -or not- physically meet located in different contexts.
        
        It is temporarily independent. This means that for communication takes place, it is not necessary for the participants coincide in the same time. A student can send a message to the forum or an email and this one does not have why be read instantly by the rest of colleagues and tutors
        
        The communication has in place in group or individual. In the Forums, communication occurs in the presence of several communicants, on the other hand, in the email communication occurs individually, that is, a Student (or tutor) sends a message to another student (or a tutor).
  - - - Nor should a temporary link exclude the professional to assume the tutorial, as long as the requirements are met of "time spent in the center" and that once assumed tutoring is guaranteed continuity the necessary time to complete the training cycle of the specialty that is try
    - - The process must be led by the Advisory Commission (establishment of criteria), with a report from the responsible for the Unit that proves that the candidates meet the criteria. Cases of conflict must be resolved by Advisory Commission.
  - - - Teachers do not have to move from one classroom to another to facilitate the learning of their students and taking into account the difficulties that arise in sectors of the population that are are limited in terms of the school system and the location, emerges as a response providing advantages such as what are the flexibility of costs, time and the development of new competences
        
        Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects: Teach and serve as example in the application of legal and ethical practices related to the use of technology, contemplating aspects related to the health and safety of users and facilitating equitable access for all students.
        
        School Management: implement curricular plans that include methods and strategies to apply technology as a way to maximize student learning. They know when and how use the technological tools in teaching their subjects to create richer, more interactive and varied, and that students work on them
        
        Planning and design of environments: Design Learning opportunities that use strategies assisted pedagogies with technology to support diverse needs of the students and that are appropriate for your level of development
        
        Professional Development: Teachers use technology to Increase your productivity and improve your professional practice
        
        Technical aspects: They show to have a solid understanding of operations and technological concepts, skills in the management of ICTs that teachers acquire both in the which refers to the content as to the pedagogy, the aspects social, joint work and networking.
- - - - Main Function: Its main function is to propose a conceptual context that is activated to assimilate significantly the curricular contents.
    - - Usability: it's very important, since we started develop an educational material for e-learning, be clear the usability that the student will have on the contents.
      - The design facilitates the usability and visibility of the contents. In addition to being an aesthetic element, it provides functionality in the virtualization of the contents. Let's see below some of the aspects that should be analyzed in the design multimedia
      - Multimedia design: «The design acts as a visual support that uses reinforcement channels, springs other than language written, that enhance the intention of the message ».
  - - - the participation of an expert in the learning contents. Your mission within the team consists in systematizing the "editorial content", that is, providing the information that will be transmitted to the student to achieve that this achieve the learning objectives, whether it's about knowledge, skills, abilities or attitudes
    - - He also collaborates very closely with the architect of the information, who is responsible for structuring the contents by him described, in hypertext mode. It is common for the expert in the content of learning is a teacher of the subject itself of the course
- - - - Whoever manages or leads a project must take the first decision to call, select and assign a team of work, vital for its execution and for the achievement of the objectives.
        
        Adequate planning is needed to indicate the critical points of the project and help detect possible deviations for the purpose of adopting timely measures appropriate corrective
    - - Each of these factors decisively influences the quality of the project and is determinant of the success or failure of the same in each of its main processes (initiation, planning, execution, control and completion)
  - - - Provides support to the different training modalities. It can be used as a support to any type of training, for example, as support for face-to-face classes
      - It offers a methodology centered on the user. Contributes to user autonomy to carry out their training and determine their learning rhythm
      - Flexible schedule. Possibility of being able to enjoy the action formative at any time
      - Geographic availability. Possibility to access from Anywhere with Internet access
      - Restructuring of information. The contents must be synthetics, be well structured and focus on the main parameters, offering additional information for deepen, thus facilitating the process of assimilation
    - - Pseudo e-Learning. The platform should not be used Learning as a simple "container of materials". Is necessary to exploit the didactic potential of the interaction tools and have a strategy instructive coherent and tutored
      - Lack of quality content. They must adapt to the new means of dissemination and be consistent with the instructional design
      - Waste of available resources. Should combining content design with the possibilities of interaction of the learning platform through a good instructional design to achieve good learning outcomes
      - Resistance to change. Every innovation produces certain resistance in the users. It is necessary to invest effort in combat this resistance through training plans and dissemination, incentives, etc
      - Lack of standards. From the technological point of view it is already possible to create exportable standard content to other systems deformation. However, "standardize" is also understood as "create your own style" of the institution that accustoms the recipients to always work with some contents and more or less standard processes
  - - - Distance education is the promoter of a proposal didactic in which the student self-regulates their learning, as a process of self-direction, transforms your mental aptitudes in academic competitions, it is the teacher who leads
    - - he specialists define it as teaching and learning planned, the teaching occurs in a different place from the learning, requires communication through the technologies and the special institutional organization
    - - there is no physical coincidence in terms of place and time, it demands greater independence and self-regulation on the part of the student. Distance education adopts several peculiarities in role of intermediation, time and the channel that goes to use
    - - The telematic system allows communication to be established instantaneous and interpersonal distance, between groups, between person and a documentation center, allows exchange spoken, graphic and documentary information and process it at the same time that is transmitted and access to documentary centers with selection criteria and sequence.
  - - - The teacher must have the ability to develop programs of training that suit the particular circumstance of each student within a system of lessons structured in the that each and every one of the language skills be worked effectively. That is why the study method should be flexible as well as rigorous in terms of content and competencies
- - - - if we want to favor teamwork, provide greater autonomy to the worker-students or carry out a joint project between different departments, for example, we must opt for collaborative learning.
    - - Tools for collaborative learning
        
        Shared documents with editing permissions for each member of each group: Google Docs, wiki, blog ...
        
         Shared calendars / agendas that facilitate planning.
        
         Project tracking tools that make it possible to know what is pending, who is responsible, what is the deadline ... An example is the development of a Kanban panel.
        
         Exclusive synchronous and asynchronous communication tools for the group: chat, forum, multiple videoconference
  - - - From this point of view, the development of "activities" that privilege practical work, as a team and related to specific situations aimed at solving problems or the development of higher order skills is encouraged.
    - - active learning
        
        • Collaborative learning
        
        • Autonomous Learning
        
        • varied options of interactivity
        
        • synchronous and asynchronous communication
        
        • continuous assessment
  - - - Maintaining the interest, attention and commitment of adult students can be a challenge. Their characteristics, needs and motives differ from young students.
        
        Educational researcher Malcolm Knowles devoted a large part of his career to researching adult education and proposed a theory of adult learning that has been applied to virtual education.
        
        Motivation to learn: Adult students have an intrinsic motivation to learn. This means that they have their own goals and desires to fulfill.
        
        Willingness to learn: As a mature person is willing to work on tasks that are meaningful and relevant, not just to fulfill a note or obligation.
        
        The concept of yourself: Adult students have chosen to be in your course and have expectations of what they want to achieve.
        
        Experience: An adult student has accumulated life and professional experience. This can be an important contribution to the growth and communication of the group.
        
        Orientation to learning: This principle refers to the immediate application of learned content to solve problems, improve or succeed.
        
        Relevance: Allows your students the flexibility to adapt, enrich or modify the task so that it can be relevant according to their personal objectives.
  - - - Schools and even more institutions of higher education have decided to join efforts to turn virtual education into a solid model, which contemplates, guarantees and improves the elements and tools of face-to-face education
    - - This of course, breaks the geographical barriers that at some point in history were a limit to access any training process. Now, each student must take direct control of their learning to meet their specific needs more effectively and thus improve their quality of life through virtual and distance education.
- - - - Self-evaluation is not only a part of the evaluation process but an element that allows learning to be produced.
  - - - n technical-professional secondary education, the evaluation allows knowing the competences acquired by the students that will serve in the world of work, so it can not be done only through written tests but through contextualized tasks
        
        The alternative evaluation includes a variety of evaluation techniques, understood as "any instrument, situation, resource or procedure that is used to obtain information on the progress of the process" (Zabalza, 1991, p.246)
  - - - Systemic model of Vann Slyke: It is the only model of those analyzed so far that presents the variable "characteristics of the student" as a factor of success or failure of virtual training.
        
        Model of the four Kirkpatrick levels: From the analysis of what each level of the model proposes and the relationship between them, it can be summarized that it proposes to evaluate the quality of the course based on the student's satisfaction with the possibility of transferring the learned in your organization and the impact it has caused
        
        Model of the five levels of evaluation of Marshall and Shriver: This model combines different elements of the educational act, but puts a special emphasis on the teacher as a dynamic agent of training in virtual environments
    - - The partial approach, which focuses mainly on one of the following aspects considered of greatest interest in virtual training: training activity, training materials, technology platforms and cost.
        
        The global approach that distinguish two trends: The evaluation systems focused on models and / or standards of standard quality and total quality and systems based on the practice of benchmarking (better known as benckmarking).
- - - - Chamilo Another interesting free and open source option, with a modern interface and very complete in your options. With it we can create courses, tests, training cycles, manage documents, etc. Includes a complete social network
      - Moodle One of the most used LMS by all types of companies and chosen by more universities and training centers. Free and open source, it is possible to install it on servers with domain names.
      - Sakai This free and open source LMS can integrate more than 20,000 students, so it is used by many university systems. With a simple installation, the tools in Sakai are classified into: teaching, learning, administration, collaboration and portfolio utilities
  - - - Schoology This free platform is very intuitive thanks to an operation similar to that of a social network shared by teachers and students. It has a wall where to interact and between the different actions it allows; the creation of discussion groups, add discussion forums, a bulletin board, start own groups or the evaluation
      - Edmodo With a very simple interface in its navigation, it was born with the purpose of creating a community among educators, students and parents. It allows the creation of communities thanks to a direct communication between students and teachers. It allows to create labels in the messages, a model similar to the Twitter microblogging platform.
      - Blackboard Used since 2005 by different educational institutions throughout more than 60 countries, offers an online learning, in an environment of interaction between tutors and users.
  - - - Keys to choosing an e-learning platform
        
        Usability. The educational platform should be simple to use for users who do not have technical knowledge or are not familiar with the online world. Look for an environment that, as far as possible, resembles what users currently see on the Web.
        
        Adaptability The use of mobile is fully integrated in the field of education, so the platform must adapt to devices of this type.
        
        Personalization. If the training environment has your logo, your corporate colors and your personal style, it is easier for your users to remember your brand and print a more professional image.
        
        Communication. It is vital for the proper development of online training that there are different ways of communicating with users (forums, chats, communities, email, etc).
        
        Flexibility. The platform you choose must be flexible to cover your present needs and take into account future ones. For example, that there are different types of online rooms, that you can upload documentation or additional content in different formats, etc.
        
        Freedom. Yes. Many platforms, such as ClassOnlive, do not limit the amount of online training you can create or the number of users who sign up for them.
        
        Statistics. Some more complete and others less, but almost all e-learning platforms have a statistics service. They help you to know your strengths and what options could be improved.
        
        Payment management. There are not many platforms that have a very complete service in this regard. It seems to us of vital importance that the instructors dedicate themselves to impart their contents, in short, to teach and not to administer the payments of the formations.
        
        Reminders. It is another point in favor for the instructor to dedicate himself only to teaching. Avoid as much as possible having to send reminders to students about the start dates of the course, for example. Give priority to your time.
        
        Social. Choosing an LMS that has good integration with social networks increases the participation of users, serves as a channel of promotion and modernizes your brand image.
  - - - Some ideas about the benefits offered by multimedia, from the tag cloud are:
        
        Persuade. The use of different formats bets on the variety of learning of the group of students.
        
        • Control. The user selects the order and pace of the process, according to their expectations and learning plans.
        
        • Expand. The variety of resources become tools to extend the explanation of concepts, practices and experiences.
        
        • Attracts. The magic of the sound and the emotion of the visual motivate the student, increasing the impact of the resource.
        
        • Exemplified. The variety of possibilities allows to use different strategies to strengthen an idea or concept.
        
        • It allows. The medium expands its possibilities to the feelings and senses of the student.