Se buscan educadores a distancia

Si ofrece u ofreció cursos en cualquier modalidad a distancia (en línea o híbridos), favor de responder a un breve cuestionario sobre las destrezas y/o habilidades que debe poseer un estudiante antes de iniciarse en un curso en modalidad híbrida. Este cuestionario es parte de la investigación doctoral de Norma Ortiz Rodríguez y los resultados se utilizarán para desarrollar un taller a estudiantes universitarios.

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Introducing Skype in the classroom

Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms. Read more.

Lecciones de la Escuela Virtual de Florida

Trends in student enrollment at Florida Virtual School (FLVS) have been increasing steadily since its inception in 1997, with over 250,000 students enrolled today. The majority of FLVS students are completing or supplementing their traditional classroom coursework, many for the convenience of virtual work and others because a particular course is not offered in their own district. Courses are free for Florida residents but available to students around the world, providing limitless access to award-winning curriculum and instructors. Both the school's model and its individual educators have been recognized for success in bridging the gap between knowledge and physical proximity of teacher and student. In being recently named Best Virtual School by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), FLVS follows several critical pillars for e-Learning success.

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Train teachers as education researchers

The most successful countries educationally make teaching an attractive, high status profession, and provide training for teachers to become educational innovators and researchers who have responsibility for reform. These were among findings presented last week in New York at the International Summit on the Teaching Profession, the first of its kind, held to identify best practices for recruiting, training and supporting teachers.

For the full report, click here.

Many countries want to become education hubs

A number of countries have declared their desire to become higher education hubs in order to develop as knowledge economies. They are setting up facilities and initiating policies to attract foreign students, researchers and faculty as well as branch campuses of foreign institutions, in what amounts to a major change in attitude towards higher education from purely local to regional and international.

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Presentación del Congreso de Investigación

El potencial de la tecnología para transformar la educación

Siempre es un placer presentar los comentarios de Sir John Daniel, del Commonwealth of Learning.

En esta ocasión, se presenta sus comentarios, hechos el 8 de marzo, en el 4th Annual Australian Higher Education Congress.

Aunque el título de su presentación fue Innovation in boosting participation: considering the potential of IT, su ponencia giró hacia la transformación en la educación.

Para ver su ponencia, oprima aquí.