TRAINING OF GUARDIANS

VIRTUAL SYSTEM OF TUTORIAL

CONTEXT

the orientation is a basic aspect of the teaching function, which is thus approved the obligation of the educational centers to coordinate these activities, leaving public administrations the guarantee of their implementation in school institutions

The tutorial is defined as a global guiding action, key to bring together both academic and educational aspects, the tutor is seen as a necessary element for the school, the group of students, for the relationship with the family and with the social context .

I.OGSE establishes the integration in the ordinary curriculum this type of year \ o. properly what is the tutorial action with preventive purpose. Favoring to the point of itself the development of the student in all directions, and the intervention on the own context, to directly or indirectly facilitate the guiding action, "to maximize the development of the student".

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

t also provides a consolidated view of huge amounts of data located in databases and distributed file systems. In addition, the Grid can allow the shared use of scarce and expensive laboratory resources, while stimulating greater collaboration between institutions and the different entities that compose them.

The exponential growth of technological advance and the omnipresence of the web have enabled a profound revolution and marked new paths in the practice of scientific research in this century, largely based on collaboration, numerical simulation on a large scale, the analysis of large volumes of data, remote access to the experimental apparatus and a deep support in the virtual scientific communities, beyond the individual experimental and theoretical efforts.

Grid computing is a technological model that makes virtual computing resources, in a distributed way over networks, using open standards to facilitate heterogeneous operations

In its simplest form, it integrates disparate systems and computers within and between various institutions, because it considers them a great system (Stanzione and Jones, 2002). It can be used to handle very large tasks or that demand high demand of resources, difficult to obtain in systems and individual computers.

TYPES

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School and educational tutoring It is characterized by providing assistance of a multidisciplinary nature and within the framework of a psycho-pedagogical and guidance service where its field of influence and work is delimited and specified. This is the one used in preschool and distance education centers.

Tutoring as an emergency measure: To prepare students for an exam, for example pre-university courses or the one assigned to a student in danger of losing one or several courses, is the same as that offered in the Psychopedagogical Counseling Departments of regular education establishments.

  1. Personalized tutoring for religious educational purposes: It is used by some educational institutions as a tutor and guidance, spiritual support and formative attitudes and behaviors. Barbara Jelkmann wrote a graduate thesis at the Universidad del Istmo based entirely on this subject.

Remote tutorials: Stephen Yelon says that Carl Rogers was one of the first to affirm that nobody learns for anyone, that each subject learns for himself. And it is very true that, no matter how skilled the tutor or teacher is, he can never, paraphrasing Freire: He can not open a knowledge bank account in the student's mind and literally put knowledge into it.

MODES OF INTERVENTION

The daily counseling that is carried out in an academic tutoring is the accompaniment to the students through the virtual platform, in which continuous communication is maintained and monitoring is provided during the fulfillment of the program

The elements of a Tutoring Plan are:

  1. Academic follow-up to record the progress of each student's learning activities.
  1. Document observations in relation to the academic performance of students, is used to describe relevant aspects of each student during the learning process, to provide qualitative elements in making decisions regarding the assessment of their learning.
  1. Final report, which will include a summary of the main incidents and tutorial actions taken, a statistical report with approval rate, failure rate and dropout rate as well as its causes in cases where evidence is available, among others.

EDUCATIONAL SCENARIOS AND TEACHING IN ICT

PLANNING PROCESSES WITH ICT

In this context, the teaching staff is the key element, therefore, to carry out a strategic planning of the ICT in the classroom 3 premises:

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The incorporation of ICT should not be a imposed process, it should be motivating and with defined objectives;

2.- The training of teachers is essential, as they must be the first to use and master the technologies;

3.- ICT must adapt to the center's educational project and not the other way around.

Educational institutions use strategic planning to manage resources and personnel, determine the objectives and teaching methodologies, evaluate the execution periods of educational actions, among others.

Strategic planning allows you to organize yourself and face the challenges and opportunities that arise, anticipating events. Ideal strategic planning is a participatory and dynamic process, which pursues well-defined objectives.

When using ICT in the classroom, one of the issues that most concern teachers is how to implement them to improve the teaching process and student performance.

The experts consider that the planning of the use of the TIC is fundamental, because it will serve to link the contents and to obtain significant learnings, having clear a plan of action.

VIRTUAL TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITY

The great advantage of online environments is that they allow students to access additional information and have direct contact with teachers to exchange opinions and doubts.

In these virtual communities that try to reproduce the conditions of face-to-face teaching, students can contemplate their training in digital environments

In the digital age, it is not surprising that every task of human life is carried out online, through different electronic devices: money transactions, purchases, applications to jobs and even attending classes and courses that can occur in the virtual campuses or virtual learning environments.

SEMIPRESENCIAL TEACHING

Blended Learning (Blended Learning or B-Learning) refers to the combination of face-to-face work (in the classroom), and online work (combining the Internet and digital media)

where the student can control some factors such as place, time and work space. It can also be understood as the efficient combination of different teaching methods, teaching models and learning styles.

Blended Learning (BL) can be named in different ways, but the most common is that teaching design in which face-to-face (physical) and non-face-to-face (virtual) technologies are hybridized with the aim of improving the teaching-learning process.

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This entails greater satisfaction in the student and, therefore, a better achievement in their courses. The use of ICT helps students improve their attitude towards learning.

PRESENTIAL TEACHING

At present, many teachers request and want to have computer resources and Internet for their teaching, responding to the challenges posed by these new information channels.

Teachers state that the use of ICT has very positive benefits for the school community, its high involvement with ICT has improved their personal satisfaction, performance at work and the relationship with students, due to the wide range of possibilities offer.

ICTs in education allow the development of competencies in the processing and handling of information, hardware and software management, among others, from various areas of knowledge, this is because we are now with a generation of children they like everything in virtuality for various reasons and they demand it themselves.

It is clear that ICTs have a leading role in our society. Education must adjust and respond to the changing needs of society.

Training in formal contexts can not be separated from the use of ICTs, which are increasingly accessible to students.

Precisely, to favor this process that begins to develop from the informal educational environments (family, leisure, ...) the school as a public service has to guarantee the preparation of future generations and for this it must integrate the new culture: digital literacy, material didactic, source of information,

TASKS OF A TEACHER ONLINE

TRAINING DESIGN AND PLANNING

The organization of the course and the learning units are the result of the planning of the virtual course carried out by the teachers who are experts in content, it allows to have an overview of what the course will be and provides the necessary elements for the students to self-regulate their learning,

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Identification: Specifies the name of the module or course, component to which it belongs, academic program, academic level, number of credits that will be responsible for its development.

Purpose of Training: Describe the learning goals you want to achieve with the students of the course.

Justification: raises the importance of the course in the process of student training.

Methodology: Declares the set of strategies, pedagogical and didactic instruments that will boost the development of students' competences. The expressed methodology must be in accordance with the foundations that the pedagogical model declares and the pedagogical orientations for the development of virtual courses.

Learning Units: Defines the teaching units that will stimulate student learning in the course. In each of them, the introduction, objectives, elements of competence, didactic content and the set of activities that comprise it are described. G

Evaluation framework: Defines the assessment scheme adopted for the learning units and activities, including the description of the feedback mechanisms that will be used in the course

Calendar: Describes the times in which the academic and administrative activities of the course will be carried out

The organization of a course based on new technologies requires greater importance in virtual learning environments, demanding high levels of flexibility, accessibility, usability and friendliness, to favor the development of learning, evaluation and monitoring activities that originate after planning curricular of a course.

The production of a virtual course is a complex and rigorous task that demands a model of work by projects. Hence, when making the decision to produce a course should be thought of a specialized working group (includes content experts, systems engineers, pedagogues, social communicators, among others.), A clear methodology with well-detailed phases, schedule of work and a budget.

Basically producing a course involves the development of a project that requires the proper organization and planning of a set of stages, phases, activities and / or tasks that lead to the development of virtual learning scenarios, following guidelines and standards; pedagogical, technological, organizational and structural.

BE A PROFESSOR IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

The virtual teacher in the learning environments has very specific roles from the pedagogical, communicative, technological and evaluative actions (González et al., 2012) in which must develop and manage knowledge in topics about the use of ICT oriented in the field of education for the design, implementation and evaluation of online or bimodal courses

n this direction, the role of the virtual teacher contributes to the creation of dynamic virtual spaces that integrate an adequate instructional design together with the demands of the knowledge and information society.

The national education system has undergone significant changes in the traditional paradigm of knowledge transmission towards an education in line with the knowledge society of the 21st century.

For this reason, teachers have progressively adapted to the implementation of learning environments supported by ICT as is an EVA, where it is a key component in the process of pedagogical mediation.

Within these environments, the role of the traditional teacher has been transformed to what is currently called a teacher or virtual mediator, in a way that allows him to assume different tasks such as; planning, communication, evaluation and design of an EVA according to the curricular model of the higher education center.

The virtual teacher has been characterized by creating new learning practices, where knowledge arises through interaction, accompaniment as well as the feedback of activities and resources integrated into virtual training to achieve the proposed objectives.

DEVELOPMENT AND FOLLOW UP

The student may contact the tutor by any of the channels provided for this purpose (telephone, forum or email), with a commitment to respond to your inquiry no more than 48 working hours.

The tutor will facilitate, through the tools of synchronous communication (chat) and asynchronous communication tools (forum and email), a bi-directional communication adapted to your preference of schedule and work rate.

The role of the tutor in this modality is mainly to act as a guide and guidance of the teaching-learning process of the student, so the follow-up of the tutor is essential.

The communication with the student will be made in a reactive and proactive manner, thus meeting the demands of the student, although not limited to them.

TEACHING AND LEARNING THROUGH THE INTERNET

THE FORMER

the role that must be assumed by the trainer in order to adapt to new technologies, it is important to bear in mind that before starting an online course, time should be devoted to the preparation of the trainer who will be responsible for the follow-up of said course.

The virtual teacher must practice on many occasions as a technical adviser and in many others should guide, advise, motivate and maintain the interest of students through training techniques that will go beyond academic knowledge.

Role as "facilitator": With this concept we refer to the trainer acting as a guide and guidance, providing participants with all the necessary tools to progress satisfactorily in their learning process.

Role as θ course administrator: An adequate administration of a course will be another of the key aspects to ensure a good follow-up of an online course. The trainer should control and manage the times of own participation and of the participants, also offering quick answers to the questions that may arise in the group.

STUDENT

t should establish the skills and characteristics that should have those who are now students or students of the mode of electronic education (e-learning).

hese skills are necessary for navigation through different media, media and information societies.
It must be understood that nowadays information is not only presented in a printed or physical format, but that there are possibilities of having information of any kind regardless of the geographic and sometimes cultural and political bars.

The properly applied digital tools then become an ally of communication and the whole process involved.
However, to what extent it may be feasible or misleading to use the information that is available

TEACH TO LEARN

The e-learning progresses and grows rapidly, it is not about the future of learning but the present, in its different modalities: online, blended learning and face-to-face.

Some of the trends of the near future in e-learning are:

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Gamification: A concept that we know a few years ago, but that certainly will not stop growing. We will continue to optimize and improve the contents of videogames and ad hoc online games for training, as a tool for the reinforcement of learning and the development of skills and abilities being used normally within learning.

Rapid Learning: The future demands fast, effective and effective learning. The current times do not allow a full time dedication to learning, therefore a change in the methodology of e-learning is necessary to build e-learning courses

Wereable Learning: The "wearable technology" will grow without stopping, like Apple Watch, Google Glasses and the infinity of devices that appear every day in the market. Wereable technology are accessories, accessories and clothing that incorporate technological elements, accompanying those who wear them on a day-to-day basis

Mobile Learning or m-learning: This trend is transversal to all others, increasingly mobile is a key device when learning, because it allows mobility and accessibility at any time from anywhere. The appsinvade our devices and is already a statistical reality the decrease in the use of PCs and the increase in the use of mobile phones and tablets

Hybrid Learning or b-learning: Migration will continue to increase from face-to-face training to e-learning and blended learning, that is, online learning that combines face-to-face training with online training.

STUDENTS AND TRAINERS

Virtual training or e-learning requires profound changes in both the role of the teacher and that of the student. The role of the teacher passes from transmitter of knowledge to tutor or guide of the learning process of the students.

The student goes on to direct his own learning process, relying on the teacher and classmates to achieve the objectives of the same. One of the most important problems of e-learning is the great abandonment of students.

Likewise, it acquires a fundamental importance as a designer of materials, media and mediated learning strategies, creating in the environment the propitious situations for it.

Bartolomé (2004) cites some of the problems that have been found in this type of course: low quality content, tutors without sufficient preparation, overwork in tutoring, traditional teaching strategies.

WEB-BASED TRAINING

CHOICE OF PLATFORM

We point out some aspects to assess when we want to choose an e-learning platform:

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The technical aspects: installation, security, system requirements, standards, etc.

• How courses, groups and spaces are managed: content organization, evaluation, etc.

• Its usability: language, user interface and administration, documentation, support, assistance, etc.

• User administration: roles, profiles, permissions, export, queries, statistics, tracking, etc.

• Management and creation of learning objects: import, export, creation, questionnaires, etc.

• Management and creation of learning objects: import, export, creation, questionnaires, etc.

• The communicative tools that it incorporates: email, chat, videoconference, forums, notices, announcements, etc.

The choice of an e-learning platform requires a prior analysis and the consensus and agreement of the largest number of professionals who will have to manage it.

The language, documentation, ease of installation and management, together with generalization and standardization, are the aspects most valued when deciding on one or another platform.

The generalization of the platform is a criterion to be taken into account. It will be a good source of reference that a platform is widely implemented among schools of our same type in our region or autonomous community, because it will allow us to have help for our doubts and problems.

INTEROPERABILITY, FLEXIBILITY, INTERACTIVITY

Interactivity

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The term interactivity is used to refer to the relationship of participation between users and computer systems, it is a process of communication between humans and computers

• It can also be understood as the relationship established between humans and machines.

• This function is often performed through hardware or devices that allow communication between the subject and the machine, but also the programs and applications and especially the design of these interactive screens and how they are presented to the user are important.

Interoperability

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Interoperability is the training of information and communication technology (ICT) systems, and the business processes to support them, to exchange data and enable the sharing of information and knowledge.

• It is the condition by which heterogeneous systems can exchange processes or data.

• Interoperability is a property that can be predicated on systems of a very different nature, such as computer systems (in which case it is usually detonated as technological neutrality).

Flexibility

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It is the set of functionalities that allow the e-learning system to have an easy adaptation in the organization where it is wanted to be implanted, in relation to the institutional structure, the study plans of the institution and, finally, to the contents and styles pedagogical aspects of the organization.

• The e-learning standards are the vehicle through which it will be possible to provide flexibility to e-learning solutions, both in content and infrastructure. They have opened a door to a more coherent way of packaging resources and content, both for students and for developers.

• One of the most important characteristics that learning objects have is that they are reusable, for which this material must be flexible in its design, so that it can be inserted in different contexts of apprehension, without having to receive it.

COMPONENTS OF A TRAINING SYSTEM

The teacher is the counselor of the teaching, through his stimuli for the student to complete the learning process; For that it is necessary that the teacher understands his students, he must stimulate his students in an appropriate way, that is why the teacher is indispensable for his quality of guidance for the formation of the students.

The teacher must have a vocation for teaching, must have psychology and psychotechnical capacity (skill for an effective understanding of the individual facts studied and the ability to apply teaching techniques.

You can not talk about education or the educational process, without neglecting to mention the actors of the same, the agents or individuals who carry out this process, it is necessary and necessary to know to whom this process is directed.

The educational act has three actors:

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The teacher, teacher or educator

• The student or educator

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PANORAMA OF THE PLATFORM

Secondly, mobile devices will clearly be the way in which most people connect online during the next few years, which means that virtual training will have to adapt to them. The facilitators will have to capture on the spot the attention of those attending a course, who can connect from anywhere.

In the world of virtual training, online learning platforms that support and foster collaboration are leading the way. Collaboration is an important factor in these technologies, specifically, because it is a critical factor to achieve successful virtual training.

First, MOOCs (mass and open online courses) are essentially blended learning programs. And blended learning integrates multiple methods of delivery into a cohesive training program, which -in general- includes virtual events (live, online and synchronous).

Third, almost everything seems to be tending towards the "shortest" and the "fastest", also including virtual training. Until a while ago, it used to happen that virtual training classes could last 90 minutes or even up to two hours, but now we're watching class of 60 minutes or less.

TEACHER'S ROLE

TYPES OF TUTORING

The most classic conception of distance tutorial attention supposes an individualized attention. This is one of the greatest advantages of this educational modality. The nature of distance education necessarily implies a very flexible and individualized teaching-learning process.

This means that the different students of the group can meet at very different times and situations regarding the study of the contents of the course. Therefore, the personalized attention offered by individual tutoring is the one that best suits the needs of those.

Like any of the initiatives that are carried out in distance education, the tutoring sessions must be subject to a thorough planning. This planning must take into account the type of interaction, the grouping of students and their purpose.

In the case of the first two criteria, the planning carried out by the tutor will be decisive in the format adopted by the tutor. But in the case of the purpose, the intentions and needs of the student will be of considerable importance.

The tutorials that have guiding purpose are those directed to the acquisition or improvement of study techniques, to the adequate use of the communication systems and of the didactic materials corresponding to the course.

There may be tutorial sessions specifically designed to cover certain specific objectives at certain moments of the course, such as those that may be considered as a guide at the beginning of the course.

FUNCTION OF THE TEACHER

Distance education was born as an option of study that provides the opportunity to achieve an academic and professional improvement for those people who for various reasons do not have the time to attend a school in person

Distance education systems emerged as a response to educational shortages, mainly from those sectors of the population that, due to the qualifications of the face-to-face system or those interested in studying and who have not done so, have not benefited from education. in its different levels and modalities (Pastor, 2006).

The teacher must carry out a series of pedagogical and didactic actions that contribute to facilitate learning centered on the student and not on himself, since the main figure is the student.

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t fosters a commitment to responsibility with their educational work, promoting and facilitating the learning of their students.

• Encourages the participation of their students without having to intervene to achieve the learning objectives.

• Contributes to the establishment of an effective communication between the different users of the virtual classroom.

DISTANCE EDUCATION TUTORING

Tutoring in distance education has a series of specific characteristics that differentiate it from the rest of the teaching roles.

It is the only prolonged system of direct personal interaction between the academic institution and the student. Of all the communication systems used in distance education, it is therefore the most flexible and trained to adapt to the needs raised by each student.

In the field of non-university distance learning, the teacher-tutor is the basic figure in the direction and maintenance of the teaching-learning process.

It develops, among other functions, the orientation, monitoring and evaluation of said process. It occupies a key place; It is a point of reference. It offers the possibility of orientation relative to any of the aspects that can affect the student's learning.

The student has the option of interacting directly with the teaching institution in which they study, they can carry out their learning through a completely autonomous use of the materials, and can tackle alone the difficulties to develop their studies derived from their personal situation

The characteristics of the tutorial action in distance education are the following:

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It develops around the student. It is he who decides the pace of learning, the depth or the sense of the orientations, clarifications or reinforcements that he needs.

• It is not essential for learning to occur.

• Acts as a potential intermediation mechanism between materials and teaching communication systems and students.

• Does not control the basic design and planning aspects of the course, although it can influence them through its mediating activity.

• Conduct the evaluation according to previously established procedures

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Cabero (2006) mentions that if currently the role of the teacher is important, so is the role played by the student, since if he does not change the traditional role of passive receiver in training and becomes an active and conscious recipient of the same, the educational action will fail. At the same time, it is important that the student is self-motivated for their training process.

Meyer (2002), after reviewing different investigations, shows that network students must have a series of distinctive characteristics, such as motivation, independence and self-sufficiency as a student, as variables that influence the learning obtained by students .

The tutorial action should be considered as an activity integrated into the curriculum and not as something particular or made available to some teachers, seeking the quality of training

In this sense, Zabalza (2000) points out the following principles in relation to the prospective meaning of teaching: converting learning and, above all, learning throughout life, in content and purpose of the teaching itself and the teacher training contribution;