Introduction to the Module

Online teaching begins with researching educational tools and selecting the ones that best fit a specific teacher, his students, the school he teaches in and the community they live in. This module sets out to develop the following competencies in teachers:

C1. Selecting appropriate online learning solutions for different educational scenarios.

This competence is relevant because not all learning solutions are the same, they differ in their degree of usefulness in different situations, their ease of use, the level at which they are used, when they are used during a lesson and so forth.

C2. Selecting a useful LMS for integrating different online learning strategies.

There are many Learning Management Systems (LMS) available, either provided for free by the school administrators, or available on a subscription option online and they all present specific advantages and disadvantages. For successful educational outcomes teachers have to know what the available options are, and what would be most useful to them.

C3. Blending synchronous and asynchronous solutions for optimal results.

Teaching in a synchronous environment has always been the classical way of educating students. The asynchronicity previously provided by giving students homework has been greatly improved upon the arrival of digital tools allowing students to learn at their own pace. It is crucial to incorporate in our teaching strategies useful tools for effective asynchronous learning.

The learning objectives of this Module are:

1. being able to research online for digital learning solutions
2. being able to differentiate between different digital learning solutions
3. being able to present advantages and disadvantages of different learning solutions
4. being able to apply the information given in this module to create a teacher account on multiple  learning management systems