This course is about distance education defined as planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from classrooms, requiring special techniques of course design and instruction, communication through various technologies, and special organizational and administrative arrangements.

The history of distance education is closely related to the evolution of different communications technologies, but it covers much more than technology. It focuses primarily on teaching, learning and all the pedagogic issues as well as administrative and policy issues associated with teaching and learning.

This course will work with Moodle course management system encouraging discussion and activities outside of the formal learning environment. All course materials are placed on Moodle and mainly include communication (discussion board, chat room, e-mail) and module content (course outlines, lecture notes, additional resources).

Participants will have the opportunity to create course content, explore online and blended applications for eLearning using an open source learning management system and practice with Web tools such as blogs and wikis as well as search tools, surveys, quizzes, and discussion systems.

The emphasis is on what to use in teaching right now, how to convert traditional courses and how to use Web-based components to enhance face-to-face instruction.

How the course works

The course can be taken online only and should take place over a full semester and the approximate workload will be 100 hours, which includes the time needed to develop your course materials.
An eFacilitator will guide you through the course.

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