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Design and development of contents for virtual courses

For the development of a course we need specialists in different fields, such as pedagogues, translators, audiovisual designers, programmers, among others. Furthermore, they must count on the necessary know-how to obtain a high level product.

Services of design and development of content help you to create applications and/or personalized on-line training courses that enhances your effectiveness and raise the value of your organization. We combine advanced technological tools and experienced resources with proved methods of development of content, with the aim of achieving the learning objectives planned by your e-learning project.

Services of design and development of content for virtual courses includes:

Content or educational and training materials suited to e-learning format (in support or
digital paper) +
Virtual Courses design and development +
Virtual Courses implementation +

 

Services included
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Distance Education is certainly a solution to the problems and costs of on-site training. Yet to be really effective a series of factors which determine the success or failure of the project are to be considered.

Making an educational material suitable for e-learning format requires a process of edition and educational design that enables handling the communicative situation of the recipients and ensuring that the knowledge you wish to transmit reaches the students.

The educational design of courses involves the development of an outline or project of the content which would fit in with the options included on the platform: presentation of the course, objectives, working methodology, files of theoretical content, files of practical content, exercises, evaluations, topics for discussions in forums, topics for scheduled chats with tutors, files of reference bibliography, links to interesting sites and glossary of terminology related to the content of the course.

Design and development of contents   Top

The design of the courses is carried out by working previously with the directors and teachers that will write the basic contents and the presentation of material, and computer-based tools for distance educators.

The organization of the course includes:

Establishment of timetables
Organization of the program
Recommendation of support (CDs, books, articles, virtual environment, etc
Definition of roles for: teacher/tutor, person in charge, administrator, etc.
Budget

The pedagogical processing of the contents (that is, to make the contents suitable for the distance education environment) includes: development of modules, suggestions for hypertexts, navigation map, conceptual maps, organization of bibliography, development and adjustment of activities and suggested evaluations (instruments, self-evaluation activities and finals).

Moreover, criteria for the graphic design of the text, images, icons and charts are suggested. Last but not least, the methodological proposal implies the academic use of communication and information tools on the Internet (chat, forum, e-mail).

 

Implementation of virtual courses   Top

In order to give shape to an e-learning project it is essential to begin by training the educators on the following topics:

Role of distance teacher/tutor/ trainer
Specifications of online education (specific learning processes, self-learning, teaching
by means of a virtual classroom)
Training on the use of computer-based tools for online education

Teacher’s monitoring and guidance, so as to develop the courses appropriately, concerning the following:

Use of communication tools (chat rooms, forums, e-mail)
Advice on suggested activitie
Recommendation about frequent questions
Specific educational recommendations

 

 
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