Sharing ideas about the English Campus
| Sharing ideas about the English Campus: new and existing users Are you interested in blended learning but not sure how to get on board?
Meet Vilson Oliveira Filho. He's the e-learning manager for Cultura Inglesa in Brazil. They have been using the English Campus, which they call the e-Campus, since 2003. We asked him to answer some of your queries. What is the feedback from your clients and teachers on using the English Campus? At the moment the e-Campus is mainly used as the online complement to our face-to-face courses for all our students. It is also used in the classrooms via interactive whiteboards to provide support for the activities developed in the lessons. Activities from the e-Campus are integrated in all our courses. At the moment we have approximately 60,000 users.
Is the English Campus bundled with classroom training, or is it purchased separately? It is an integral part of the course although we do offer it separately for specific needs. How much time is allocated per week for using the English Campus - both for teaching and for monitoring students' progress? Since it is part of a varied programme offered to clients, the time spent by teachers using the e-Campus in their lessons varies from lesson to lesson. As regards monitoring time, the tool makes it easy to monitor students' progress and that is usually done on a weekly or fortnightly basis. What advice could you offer on how we can make the launch of a blended learning programme run smoothly? Aspects we found important and would probably be valid for any implementation programme are: Teachers are key to the whole process. Helping teachers understand how the tool works and the advantages of using it with their students will certainly help engage the best champions the implementation programme can have. The resources available are vast and it is important to plan ways of exposing students to the resources and features gradually and frequently so that they see the value and understand how the tool works. Students usually see the value of the tool when they have done something that helped them or been shown an activity or feature that could help them. _________________________________________________________________________ If you'd like to know more about any aspect of the English Campus, please contact: Jane Petrie +44 (0)20 7014 4003 |
