FiNALLY

Well, at the beginning of this online course, I thought that was very easy for the teacher be behind a computer and try to evaluate her students with activities and readings; but my experience trying to develop an online course was very different. It is hard to try to create interesting activities that catch the attention of each student, because could be boring for them be in the computer all day. During the creation of my online course I really learn how to make an online website and how to administrate it; at the beginning was very hard to understand all the functions that we can get from the internet; now I would say that I am an online teacher expert.

Sometimes I was very frustrated because I read and read the instructions and I didn’t understand what the teacher really wants.

All the topics, documents, files, etc, in the course were organized and it was very easy to found the assignments and the readings. Also the “Discussion Board” was organized by units.

I conclusion, this course was very important because shows different ways to teach to our students. Nowadays, as teachers it is vital to be active and update.

Unit 3 process

The develop of the writings in the unit 3 was very useful as students of the Licenciatura en Docencia de Idiomas; because during this online course we were learning about how to be an online teachers and also how to develop the activities as a student.

I really think that all the activities were very important during the unit 3, because each one represent some aspect of the teacher’s life. Here we can learn how to apply the different activities to our future e-learners.

If we didn’t read carefully the instructions of the e-tutor, all the activities were very complicated for some of us; but we finally learn how to follow indications.

In conclusion, the unit 3 was as the teacher describes in the initial plan of the course. I was very surprised because in the list of activities, the teacher gives us the description of the activity and the approximated time to do each activity and she was right; I finish each activity in the time that the teacher give. This is the proof that the teacher really knows how to guide this course.

Reflection Unit 2


In the Unit 1, where we learned on the theory of Online Learning, and in the Unit 2 we apply a little bit of this theory. Also we used some of the previous knowledge about Online Education.

It was very important to begin this unit with the glossary of terms of Distance Education because this gives us a previous knowledge about the entire course. All the knowledge that we were learn can be use day by day in our daily life.

In unit 2, I analyze the model that belongs to the Theory and Practice of Online Learning that give us a better understanding on this online class and also we can apply this knowledge in our future as English teachers.

It was also very important to make our plan for an Online class; here we need to know how to organize the aims and the objectives of the class.

In this unit, also we analyzed the online classes that we already course and we identify which of them were carried out in a correct form and which did not.

The work in pairs was a way of complementing our knowledge and facilitated our comprehension of some terms or specific topics.

In conclusion, it was a very complete unit that really helps us to understand the function and objective of an Online Education.

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA

Class: Distance Education

GLOSSARY OF TERMS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

ISAAC:Distance education:Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy and andragogy, technology, and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "on site". Rather than attending courses in person, teachers and students may communicate at times of their own choosing by exchanging printed or electronic media, or through technology that allows them to communicate in real time and through other online ways [2]. Distance education courses that require a physical on-site presence for any reason including the taking of examinations is considered to be a hybrid or blended course of study.
Online education: As per definition on the web, it is basically credit-granting courses or education training delivered primarily via the Internet to students at remote locations, including their homes. The Online courses may or may not be delivered synchronously. An online course may need that students and teachers meet once or periodically in a physical setting for lectures, labs, or exams, so long as the time spent in the physical setting does not exceed 25 percent of the total course time. Online education encompasses various degrees and courses. Through online education, one can opt for many
Distance learning: Distance learning makes it possible to earn degrees without quitting your day job. Your schedule is more hectic than ever with work, family, and errands. When it comes to continuing your education, you need a school that works with your busy schedule. That’s where distance learning comes. It’s and plenty of bangs for your buck.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_learning/
www.indiaedu.com/online-education/
www.classesandcareers.net/

YOLANDA:
E-Learning: Any learning that utilizes a network (LAN, WAN or Internet) for delivery, interaction, or facilitation. This would include distributed learning, distance learning (other than pure correspondence), CBT delivered over a network, and WBT. Can be synchronous, asynchronous, instructor-led or computer-based or a combination.
Course Management System: Also shortened to "CMS." The software, usually web-based, used by colleges and universities, as well as corporations and government, that facilitates distance learning by centralizing the development, management, and distribution of instructional-related information and materials. A CMS provides faculty with a set of tools that allows the easy creation of course content - syllabi, course modules, lecture notes, assignments, tests and quizzes, etc. - and is the framework in which they teach and manage the class. To an online student, a CMS is simply the vehicle by which you, the instructor, and your fellow learners interact using asynchronous discussion boards and live chat tools; access course information and materials, submit assignments, check your grades, etc.
Asynchronous Communication: Non-synchronous, two-way communication in which there is a delay between when a message is sent and when it is actually received. In distance learning, asynchronous communication most often take the form of email (e.g. your professor emails you with feedback on an assignment), voicemail (e.g. you leave a message for your professor on his/her office phone), and discussion boards (e.g. you post a reply to a classmate's question in a threaded class discussion.)
Copyright eLearners.com 1999 – 2009
http://www.elearners.com/resources/glossary.asp
Computer Based Training (CBT): A computer that provides instructional material in lieu of classroom, practical or human taught experience. The material is usually presented in the form of a CD-Rom, LAN or on the internet.
Online Degree Zone.com
http://www.onlinedegreezone.com/About-Online-Degree-Zone.php

MIRNA:
Effectiveness: Measure of achieving a specific goal: Typical effectiveness measures in distance education include cost, course design, instruction, media, teaching strategies, technology. Relates to quality assurance.
Feedback: Key element in any form of communication: the response of the receiver to the sender.
Learner Autonomy: "Concept that learners have different capacities for making decisions regarding their own learning." Relates to the structure and interactive expectations of a distance education course. A key element in adult learning.
Moore & Kearsley (1996) Implications for distance education. Moore & Kearsley (1996) Implications for distance education.
https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/public/faculty/DEGlossary.shtml
https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/public/faculty/DEGlossary.shtml
Moore & Kearsley (1996) Implications for distance education.
https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/public/faculty/DEGlossary.shtml

OYUKI:
Blended learning: an increasing popular combination of online and in-person learning activities.
Blog (Weblog): a public web site where users post informal journals of their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's creator.
Discussion Forums: a place where people can exchange messages of common interest.
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/elearning-essentials/elearning-glossary.htm

JULIO :
Learning: Education via the internet, network, or standalone computer. E-learning is essentially the network-enabled transfer of skills and knownetwkorledge. E-learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to learn. E-learning applications and processes include Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms and digital collaboration. Content is delivered via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape, satellite TV, and CD-Rom.Synchronous Learning:Synchronous Learning is often referred to as 'live' learning and is used in conjunction with online learning. It means that the communications occur at the same time between individuals and information is accessed instantly. People can communicate in 'real time' using their computers to both talk to each other as well as text chat. Presentations can be made using electronic whiteboards and electronic slides. This type of interaction is referred to as a 'virtual classroom'. Presentations, conversations and text can be stored (archived) and made available online as a resource.

Threaded Discussion: In a threaded discussion users have the option of responding to one another directly. Although there may be a general topic, as in the discussion example above, subtopics emerge as students respond to specific postings. These secondary postings are the "threads" that spin off from the main discussion: a student responds directly to a comment made about the main topic, and another student responds to the response, and so a thread is formed. A threaded discussion is a group conversation with simultaneous side conversations. There is little sense of sequence in a threaded discussion; you can easily chime in at any point in the conversation.http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/discussion.ht
http://www.netc.org/digitalbridges/online/glossary/

Yaham:
Learning management system (LMS): is software for delivering, tracking and managing training. LMSs range from systems for managing training records to software for distributing courses over the Internet and offering features for online collaboration. Collaborative learning: in which the communication between the tutor and the students is asynchronous: the students study individually following an arranged schedule of assignments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system
Negash, S., Whitman, E., Woszczynski, A., Hoganson, K., & Mattord, H.(2008)
Handbook of Distance Learning for Real-Time and Asynchronous Information Technology Education. New York.

Ana Isabel:
Asynchronous Communication: Non-synchronous, two-way communication in which there is a delay between when a message is sent and when it is actually received. In distance learning, asynchronous communication most often take the form of email (e.g. your professor emails you with feedback on an assignment), voicemail (e.g. you leave a message for your professor on his/her office phone), and discussion boards (e.g. you post a reply to a classmate's question in a threaded class discussion.)Threaded Discussion: A common feature of distance learning that allows students to interact with their classmates and instructor. A threaded discussion is a series of messages on a particular topic posted in a discussion forum. A threaded discussion is asynchronous, not fixed in time or space, so students can log on at any time from any Internet-enabled computer to seek clarification for issues they encounter in their coursework, to discuss topics raised in class, or to initiate new discussions on related topics. A good online discussion has the same effect of group or in-class discussion, in which students build on one another's perspectives to gain a deeper understanding of the materials.Course Management System: Also shortened to "CMS." The software, usually web-based, used by colleges and universities, as well as corporations and government, that facilitates distance learning by centralizing the development, management, and distribution of instructional-related information and materials. A CMS provides faculty with a set of tools that allows the easy creation of course content - syllabi, course modules, lecture notes, assignments, tests and quizzes, etc. - and is the framework in which they teach and manage the class. To an online student, a CMS is simply the vehicle by which you, the instructor, and your fellow learners interact using asynchronous discussion boards and live chat tools; access course information and materials, submit assignments, check your grades, etc.Authors Unknown/Unspecified. 1999-2009.Distance Learning Glossary. Available in:http://www.elearners.com/resources/glossary.asp?tsource=it&tid=77039


Rosario:
Live Web conferencing: Participants will experience a live online web session with students in California using NetTutor. Attendees will leave with strategies and tools to create links in Blackboard to improve student retention. Make your class as personal as possible.
Virtual Learning Community: By taking advantage of virtual spaces like Facebook, Twitter, and Second Life, we give our students space to learn outside the classroom.
Web Administration: The Road to Xavier portal for admitted students was named Best University Web Site 2006 by the Web Marketing Association. Beyond enabling the recruitment of a banner class, this Web 2.0 project laid the foundation for the Virtual Learning Commons, Xavier's comprehensive fully integrated Web presence to support 21st-century learners.
From: http://connect.educause.edu
Aseret
Cyberspace: The nebulous place where humans interact over computer networks.

Electronic Mail (E-mail):
Sending messages from one computer user to another.



Assessment: Evaluation of project or course based on measuring pre- against post- awareness, knowledge, or skills.

Barry Willis. University of Idaho Engineering Outreach staff highlighting. http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/eo/dist13.html

Inglis, Ling, & Joosten (1999) p. 98, for implications to distance education. https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/public/faculty/DEGlossary.shtml

Noemi:
Blackboard: is a collaborative, virtual space where multiple parties contribute ideas towards the solution of a problem by posting information, solution ideas and suggestions. Each addition to the blackboard brainstorm is intended to increase collective understanding until a problem has been solved.
InteractiveCourse: An interactive course is a distance learning course that incorporates at least some interactive components, such as student interaction with technology, active instructor feedback, and communication between peers, communication between students and an instructor and possible peer collaboration.
Distributed Learning: is a type of distance learning that makes use of information technology. Distributed learning includes most types of distance learning but not plain correspondence via the mail.
AllOnlineSchoolsYour Guide to Online Education and Training(2006-2009).online Educcation Glossary/FInd Helpful Definitions for Over 40 Commonly UsedOnline Educationhttp://www.allonlineschools.com/online-education-resource-center/online-degrees-101-glossary/© 2006-2009 All Online Schools All rights

Azael:
Distance Education: The process of providing instruction when students and instructors are separated by physical distance and technology, often in tandem with face-to-face communication, is used to bridge the gap.
Audio Bridge: A device used in audio conferencing that connects multiple telephone lines. Audio conferencing: Voice only connection of more than two sites using standard telephone lines.
Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI): Teaching process in which a computer is utilized to enhance the learning environment by assisting students in gaining mastery over a specific skill.
http://152.30.11.86/DEER/Houghton/Committees/distancelearn/GlossaryDistEd.html
Rocío:
Online education: As per definition on the web, it is basically credit-granting courses or education training delivered primarily via the Internet to students at remote locations, including their homes. The Online courses may or may not be delivered synchronously. An online course may need that students and teachers meet once or periodically in a physical setting for lectures, labs, or exams, so long as the time spent in the physical setting does not exceed 25 percent of the total course time. Online education encompasses various degrees and courses. Through online education, one can opt for many online degrees or online courses from various online universities that provide this facility.

General Education Online: is a web based project started in 1995 by Michael Viron that provides a database of links to web sites of educational facilities worldwide.

Study: Online education is a simple way to learn foreign language, get professional certificate or increase your professionalism with the help of online diploma programs or online courses.

http://www.study-online.net/

http://www.indiaedu.com/online-education/
http://www.findaschool.org/?Type=About

GLOSSARY OF DiSTANCE EDUCATiON

Andragogy:
Approach to education promoted by Knowles and based on assumptions about adult learning, including (1) Adults need to know why they need to learn something, (2) Adults need to learn experientially, (3) Adults approach learning as problem-solving, and (4) Adults learn best when the topic is of immediate value. These should be taken into consideration as we think about adult distant learners.

Assessment:
Evaluation of project or course based on measuring pre- against post- awareness, knowledge, or skills.

Assignments:
Work produced by students and used by instructors for purposes of interaction and also evaluation.

Behaviorism:
Follows the traditions of Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, and Skinner by viewing behavior as a result of stimulus-response.

Cognitive theories:
Follows the interest in the internal processes of the brain. Interested in learner's prior knowledge and learner style.

Collaborative learning:
A learning environment in which individual learners support and add to an emerging pool of knowledge of a group; emphasizes peer relationships as learners work together creating learning communities.

Constructivism:
Approach that views knowledge as an active process of subjectively building a system of meanings. Based on "autonomous individuals constructing their own knowledge based on their own experiences."

Distance education:

Teaching and learning in which learning normally occurs in a different place from teaching.

Distance education courses:

Structured programs of instruction for learners in a different place from the teacher, having learning objectives, one or more teachers, a medium of communication, and subject matter.

Distance education institution:

College, university or school system organized exclusively for distance education.

Distance education program:
"Distance education activities carried out in a conventional college, university, school system, or training department whose primary responsibilities include traditional classroom instruction."

Distance education system:
All the component processes that result in distance education, including learning, teaching, communication, design, and management.

Distance learning:
Term often used as synonymous with distance education, not strictly correct since distance education includes teaching as well as learning.

Effectiveness:
Measure of achieving a specific goal: Typical effectiveness measures in distance education include cost, course design, instruction, media, teaching strategies, technology. Relates to quality assurance.

Facilitation:
Assisting/guiding approach ("guide-on-the-side") to a learning situation; can be contrasted to the directive teacher-instructor ("sage-on-the-stage") approach. psychology.

Feedback:
Key element in any form of communication: the response of the receiver to the sender.

Independent study:
Term used in North American universities from the mid 1960s in place of "correspondence study," partly to loosen associations with for-profit correspondence schools, partly to accommodate emerging, non-text media, and partly to emphasize the greater autonomy of the student in the teacher-learner transaction.

Instructors:
Specialists in learning who interact through technology with students as they learn content, usually designed by course team, though quite often by the instructors themselves.

Interaction:
Exchange of information, ideas, opinions between and among learners and teachers, usually occurring through technology with the aim of facilitating learning. A widely cited concept of interaction discriminates between learner-teacher interaction, learner-learner interaction and learner-content interaction.

Just-in-time learning:
"An approach to educational delivery in which small segments of learning are delivered when and where the need arises." Not based on fully understanding, but on specific problem-solving implementations. Response to need education and training needs in a rapidly changing environment.

Knowledge transfer:
Describes a view of education in which knowledge is packaged and transmitted to learners. In distance education this is manifested in very precise and careful organization of content with relatively little emphasis on interaction except for remedial purposes, since it is assumed all that is needed is contained in the package.

Learner autonomy:
"Concept that learners have different capacities for making decisions regarding their own learning." Relates to the structure and interactive expectations of a distance education course. A key element in adult learning.

Open education:
An imprecisely defined term often used synonymously with distance education and popular in countries that have traditionally had a very closed and elitist higher education system, to indicate relative freedom of access and choice of routes to course completion. Education that is not place-bound; occurring in student's environment.

Open learning:
Used synonymously with "open education" to emphasize systems of education which allow entry into the system without consideration of prior educational experiences. Also, describes a model of distance education developed by Kember which considers the influences of social and academic factors on learning outcomes.

Self-assessment:
"An internal review by which an organization assesses its own processes and performance against given criteria."

Self-directed learning:
The ability to exercise "learner autonomy." No one is autonomous at all times or able to be fully self-directed as a learner at all times, but the development of these capacities is the aim of many educational philosophies. The teacher aims to transfer to the learner the skills associated with teaching, i.e., to decide what ought to be learned, the most effective means of learning it, and to know realistically and correctly when the learning has been achieved.

Self-esteem:
Personal feelings of high or low self worth.

Teacher-focused:
An approach to education in which the teacher is the holder of knowledge to be dispensed to students; can be contrasted with "learner-focused."

Technology:
Mechanisms for distributing messages, including postal systems, radio and television broadcasting companies, telephone, satellite and computer networks.

Transactional distance:
Theory developed by Michael Moore which emphasizes that distance is a pedagogical/andragogical phenomenon which must be addressed by design, curriculum, forms of communication and interactions, and management of distance education programs.

Validity:
Within research and evaluation refers to extent to which what is measured is what is intended to be measured.

REFLECTiON UNiT 1

First of all, I really think in this short unit, we learned many things and terms we already used, but we didn’t know the correct meaning of these. The name of this class is “Education a distancia” and I really believed the best way to learn about it is by practicing; we have all the technology and tools to develop this kind of class.

It is important to mention different types of schooling such as Open education, Distance education and Traditional education; the last one, is the most common around the word. Sometimes we think Open Education and Distance Education are the same, well, they have the same objectives and the same methodology, but DE is more structured.

Finally, I think this unit was just an introduction of the entire course. I hope the course remains interesting until the end of the semester.