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FUNDAMENTALS OF E-LEARNING - Coggle Diagram

- - - - But, beyond the busy tools, e-Learning, like any educational process, requires a solid instructional or instructional design. And that takes into account, in addition to pedagogical considerations, the advantages and limitations of the Internet and the behavior of its users.
        Until a few years ago, e-learning stood out for its "Just in time" training proposal, for lowering training costs, and for being able to take place anytime, anywhere.
        
        At present, the concept of education through technological tools is being passed to tutoring with technological support, enhancing the pedagogical work of tutors and teachers to build knowledge.
        When the practice is carried out mainly occupying the Internet, we speak of pure e-Learning or online. And when it is carried out under an instructive design that mixes classes and face-to-face pedagogical activities with classes and activities 100% online, the term b-learning is used (for “blended learning” or blended learning).
        
        What is e-learning?
        E-learning, also called "virtual teaching", are totally remote situations developed through telematic networks. Human Capital Solutions on its page conceptualizes e-learning as: “education available through technology”.
        
        The article “e-learning, the future of distance education”, conceptualizes e-learning as follows: “By definition, e-Learning is the provision of educational programs and learning systems through electronic means.
        E-Learning is based on the use of a computer or other electronic device (for example, a mobile phone) to provide people with educational material.
        Distance education created the bases for the development of e-Learning, which solves some difficulties in terms of time, synchronization of agendas, assistance and travel, typical problems of traditional education ”.
        
        Technologically, ICTs are the support of this new concept of education. On the other hand, he talks about it as a use. A formative use "a source of services to achieve its formative mission". Furthermore, etymologically, e-learning is electronic learning: any training process that uses any type of ICT. From this point of view, teachers have been making use of e-learning since the inclusion of audio, visual and audiovisual devices.
        
        It is based on three fundamental criteria:
        
        E-learning works in a network, which makes it capable of being instantly updated, stored, retrieved, distributed and allows the sharing of instruction or information.
        
        It is delivered to the end user through the use of computers using standard Internet technology.
        
        It focuses on the broader vision of learning that goes beyond traditional training paradigms ”.
- - - - With the appearance of the standards, starting in 2001, the independence of the content and the LMS was guaranteed, so that certain specifications were met on which to base the development of tools and content:
        • Accessibility, regardless of the platform on which the content is located.
        • Interoperability: the content can be used on different platforms
        • Reusability: The contents can be used over and over again in different educational programs.
        • Durability: The content can be used regardless of changes in the technology with which it was produced.
        
        We have a platform and some content, with this we can start an online course? The answer is no. The communication tools in this training environment constitute another key piece, since they allow interaction between the different agents of the teaching-learning process. This interaction takes the form of the possibility of carrying out group work, exchanging experiences, providing support from the tutor, resolving doubts, etc.
        
        Depending on whether the communication is in real time or not, we have:
        • Synchronous communication tools: telephone, Chat, webcam, videoconference, electronic whiteboard, shared documents online.
        Asynchronous communication tools: these are the ones that give e-learning a good part of its character (“anytime, anywhere”). Discussion forums, newsgroups, email, and lately Blogs and Wiki.
- - - - A good amount of definitions about this concept incorporates the use of the Network of networks as a primary, or characteristic space:
        
        "With the Internet, a new step has been taken in the subject of distance education, turning it into a virtual experience. E-Learning is the way to designate this type of education that is provided through the Internet."
        
        "E-learning makes it possible to offer information, training and training to all those who need it, online, at the most convenient time and place".
        
        "e-Learning is the provision of educational programs and learning systems through electronic means ..."
        
        That has been, at least in the limited spaces where it is mentioned and practiced, a fashionable term. Just five years ago Alfons Cornella, one of the most accredited connoisseurs of the practical uses of the Internet, wrote: "Everyone talks about e-learning. It seems that it is 'what is coming' with force.
        It is a set of methods, technologies, applications and services, aimed at facilitating distance learning through the Internet ... ".
        This Catalan specialist recalled that the use of the Internet for didactic purposes had to be accompanied by specific forms of evaluation of knowledge, as well as "a superior pedagogical effort" so that the teaching material is understandable.
- - - - Currently there are a large number of platforms, both commercial and open source.
        At the university level, the WebCT is the most used platform, followed at a considerable distance from the Edustance platform.
        The Moodle free license platform is beginning to be implemented with force. The open source platform .LRN (dot learn) is also used in several universities.
        
        It is common to find online courses in which their contents are no more than mere virtualization of previous courses in which the student now reads on screen what he could previously read on paper. This is more e-reading than e-learning.
        The design of the contents must be carried out by experts in didactic methodology with the aim that they respond to:
        
        Adaptation to the needs and possibilities of the student
        
        Quality and quantity of the information presented
        
        Interactivity
        
        Adequate structure for its correct assimilation.