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Virtual learning tools
The needs of institutions, teachers and students have changed in recent years. In this article we present the best tools to offer efficient online education, adapted to the current academic environment.
Promoting good communication is important for carrying out daily activities, especially within the online education system. In this sense, educators, when transforming classrooms into digital spaces, have required the integration of various virtual learning tools.
Nowadays it is not enough to have individual solutions, on the contrary it is essential to have initiatives that jointly house all opportunities for communication, collaboration, interaction and storage with just one click.
In this sense, the objective of a comprehensive result is to provide teachers and students with a virtual space where they have all these virtual learning tools at hand, saving time, money and effort. It will no longer be necessary to pay for intelligent functions separately, but rather it is possible to experience the integration of these applications in a single platform.
What are the best virtual learning tools?
Below, we present 4 digital instruments capable of producing great benefits across the entire educational community.
- Virtual classrooms
Virtual classrooms, generally found within a learning management system (LMS), are responsible for creating environments similar to face-to-face classes. There, students can perform actions such as reading documents, conducting practice work, exchanging ideas, asking teachers questions and carrying out teamwork. All this without the need for a common physical space between teachers and students.
Some examples are Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and Brightspace.
- Activity assignment
Listening to dictated tasks or the practice of copying from the blackboard are a thing of the past. With virtual education, digital assignments began to be implemented with personalization that allows determining the day and time of delivery of a work, sending attachments and even video recordings or audio messages that enrich the production.
- Virtual practice, assessments and records
Another special feature for virtual education lies in bringing online exercises and exams closer, helping with student autonomy and self-learning. Likewise, the teacher can have precise and detailed reports of their students' progress, so self-evaluation of these instances optimizes not only time, but also the effort of educators.
With this in mind, today there are proctoring tools, which carry out the supervision of virtual exams, while using telematic resources.
- Content storage
Within a virtual platform it is vital to have spaces to store information. In other words, having the freedom to add, organize and manage this content facilitates the quick and accurate search for those resources necessary for students, teachers and educational institutions.
Finally, it is worth considering that virtual learning tools should reach schools to become a guide. Furthermore, it is important to emphasize that the vision and culture of the teaching center should be combined with what the different applications offer to the online academic sector.
After all, if the education system is flexible and also offers alternative paths to work with the school community, success will be guaranteed.
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