DICHOTOMIC KEY THROUGH MOODLE PLATFORM. BLENDEED-LEARNIG LIKE EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TEACHER TRAINING EDUCATION
Universidad de Huelva (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in:
ICERI2009 Proceedings
Publication year: 2009
Pages: 998-1009
ISBN: 978-84-613-2953-3
ISSN: 2340-1095
Conference name: 2nd International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 16-18 November, 2009
Location: Madrid, Spain
Abstract:
A quality training at university is developed by complementary, transverse and innovative academic activities. The European Space for higher education understands this as the relationship between teachers and students.
We consider that the production of the blended-learning work proposals like we introduce here, ease the training of future instructors according to the professional needs that the progressive implantation of information technologies in educational centres demand.
This activity has been elaborated and designed out of the experiences acquired in previous training courses for Physical Education and Primary education teachers, in subjects related with the didactics for the experimental and social sciences through the WebCT platform, being implemented nowadays by the Moodle platform which we consider to offer major didactic possibilities in collaborative works.
The students, helped by field notebooks, bibliographical cards, the viewing of pictures, virtual walks,etc will produce a dichotomy key that will be useful in order to classify, identify, compare,etc. the trees in Campus del Carmen at University of Huelva. This will be generated and updated on a blog in which these species we are studying will be shown.
They will produce all this work through a blended-learning scheme, using the Moodle platform. The intention is to ellaborate an intervention model of practical activities linked with the Teacher official syllabus of the Teacher degree's subjects we instruct, and that has an innovative spirit in the eyes of the students; to experience new educational strategies with an equipment that links the classroom and the natural, social and cultural environments of the education centre; finally to implement actions in which the students have a major responsibility and autonomy in the educational action. Keywords:
dichotomous key, experimental and social sciences, blended learning, moodle.