Webinar

Hello everybody!

Today I am not going to talk about a new resource for my students, today I bring some interesting information for teachers as learners. 

Yesterday, I attended a online webinar  about on line learning and digital educative competence.  

I would like to introduce you María Jesús, my ICT teacher and also she works in the Ministry of Education, she talked about different kinds of courses as edupills, nooc, mooc, and spooc. All of them are from the Ministry of Education. I explain all of them below but first, you can see here María Jesus' twitter: Follow @mjgsm

Edupill: This tool has been thought for our mobile, that means you can use it in everywhere, even when you are waiting in a qeue! So you are not going to lose your time!!.
Edupills are short courses (around 3-7 minutes) to improve digital competence. They are focused on individual learning. And they are for engaging motivation to improve the digital competence. Each pill (course) is a descriptor to attract more extensive courses. 

Nooc: This is the next one depending on  lenght. Nooc are curses of 3 hours. The main idea is that you achive an aim in just 3 hours. This aim is a whole competence. There are a lot of variety in this courses, and also if you are available, you can do it in summer! As Edupill, these courses are completly free, you just have to join it. When the course ends, you still have access to the materials. These courses are opened for 10 days and as I said before, resources will be there even if the course has finished. The most important thing in these courses are motivation for learning, because you cannot get point for doing them. Finally there is not limit of people to join. 

Mooc: They are more famous than the others, their lenght are 4-5 weeks, and as the same way than the others, you can not get point for them. You can get digital insignias which can certificate your digital competence level. This courses are centered in active methodologies and they want to promote profesional learning communities. A good point of this courses is that there are a lot of variety, you can do just some activities or everething, it is up to you. And the courses have a lot of different topics. 

Spooc: The main characteristic of it is learning in your own pace because this courses never end. You can do one part one day and finsh the course one month later or even in summer. You have some support to do it but not in the same way than the other courses. 

At the end, María Jesus talked to us about "Digital Competence Portfolio for Teachers"
These resources has been created to let you know wich is your digital competences level. 
You need to attach some evidences to prove your level. The way to measure levels are equal than the Common European Framework of References for Languages.  These resources will be necessary in the future because is on way to BOE. 


In my opinion, it was a pleasure to attended the webinar, because I did not know too much about this courses and how to get courses to improve my digital competences. Then I think these courses are so useful because they are adapted to you, not you to them. It is amazing that even when you finish a course you are able to access to the contents and resources. So there is no excuses! If you want to improve, you have all the means to improve. 

On the other hand, may be forcing teachers to certify their level of digital competences is to risky nowadays, but I think it would be possible to carry it out in the future. 



I hope you enjoy this post! 
See you soon!