VIRTUAL EDUCATION

VIRTUAL EDUCATION

1. Didactics of the Language in Virtual Learning Environments

   • The development through some tools, platforms, activities, and teaching materiales, With the use of technology makes the teching process a series of resources that would be called to be information and communicative technologies (ICT)
     • Virtual Environments and Language Teaching
       • The creation of the virtual platform
         • Context and objectives
           • The use of Eleclips that is the result of a formula that integrates new technologies.
       • Procedure and development
         • The usability of the Eleclips platform based on 5 elements: Ease of learning, efficiency, mistakes, being remember, and satisfaction.
       • Digital fields educational fields
       • Methods and pedagogical approach
         • Distribution of activities in 4 impotant levels: Grammar, cultual knowledge, vocabulary, and communicative function.
         • Communicative approach, grammatical skills, sociolinguistic and sociocultural skills.
       • Influencing factors: Infraestructure, technological resources, such as tablet, computers, mobile etc.

2. Evaluation of Learnign in Distance Education

   • Evaluation of learning is essential, and it should be based on different instruments that allow the progress of all students to be assessed at the different levels and topics through which they pass when acquiring knowledge even more when they do not have a face to face interaction with their tutor.
     • Different aspects to consider when evaluating learning in virtual environments:
       • Principles of evaluation
         • Some of them are: Reliability, validity, objectivity, and authenticity.
       • Functions of the evaluation
         • They are: Diagnostic, formative, and summative.
       • Types of evaluation
         • They are: Self-evaluation and heteroevaluation, group-based and criteria-based, systematic and asystematic, qualitative and quantitative, among others.
       • Tools of evaluation
         • They are: Achievement test, interleaved questions, computer adaptive test, project, rubric, mind maps, among others.
       • Means of evaluation
         • They are: Printed papers, synchronous media, and asynchronous media.