Today I will talk about online learning. It includes learning with the assistance of the Internet and a personal computer. The term e-learning, or electronic learning, often is used interchangeably with online learning.
The important benefit of online learning is that it can span time and distance. You do not have to be in the same place as your teacher obtain course-related information. Even if you are attending a traditional course, when the instructor uses Blackboard, you can have anywhere, anytime access to your course documents along with consistent interaction with your classmates and teacher.
As teachers, we need to learn all the time because the world is changing constantly. But sometimes it is a difficult task because we don't have any time, or because we cant attend the course that we can do.
This problem is solved by e-learning. And we are lucky because Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports have a special institution for e-learning: INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y Formación del Profesorado).
I attended a webinar ( a live web-based video conference ) about e-learning. It was carried out by one of my professors, María Jesús García San Martín, a great professional who is focused on ICT. The name of the webinar was Mobile learning and digital competence for education.
Through this webinar, I could learn different things related to the Digital Competence for Education.
There is a platform called "Aprende INTEF" where teachers could enroll in many of courses to learn online. This platform has a portfolio, where you can save and check the competences and the courses that you have. There are 6 levels of digital competence, similar to the language European levels: A1-A2-B1-B2-C1-C2.
This organization offers Mooc, Nooc, and Spooc Courses. The main difference between them is the time and the flexibility. In all these courses, you can get badges to complete the Back Pack of your Portfolio. The tool designed to prove your digital competence. She also talked about Edupills, I started some courses to develop the Digital Competence. They are very easy and useful.
To complete your learning, Aprende INTEF offers different online digital training resources:
- Edupills: Mini-courses to complete through mobile phone or tablets in order to improve digital competence. It is a perfect tool for people who don't have too much time or who are constantly traveling. It could take 15-30 minutes.
- Mooc. It is open learning courses related to collaborative work. These courses develop different competencies such us active methodologies or professional learning contents.
The duration of the courses could vary from 4 to 5 weeks and it takes 5 hours per week. An example of MoocINTEF could be a virtual reality in education.
- Nooc. NOOC are mini-courses that work like lego blocks. It means that if you complete different NOOC about the same topic, you can put them together and it allows you to build a great Mooc.
- Spooc. SPOOC is a learning experience at your own pace. When the course is opened, you can access whenever and wherever you want. You can get your digital badges once you get the target.
These are some of the possibities offered by INTEF. All these contents are designes with criteria. The products are selected through different surveys and studies.
These courses dont provide an official accreditation but it help you to complete you digital competition badge. The badge is very useful to complete the "portfolio" that will be compulsary learning for teachers in the future. The Open Badge Backpack by INTEF is called "Insignias INTEF".
To be hones, at the begining of this master i didnt belive in e-learning. Howerver thank this subject, and thank teachers as Maria Jesús, my idea is changing.
INTEF gives to us a huge band of resources to develope and improve as teachers. The best point is that we can decide what, when and where we want to learn and we can improve step by step.
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