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About the Pilot Courses
Learning with a laptop in a Distance Learning course
The pilot courses are a set of tested and well-created Open Online Distance Learning courses based on open, online, flexible and technology enhanced education (OOFAT). These courses are an innovation in Open Online Distance Learning.
Elements of innovation
- A student friendly approach to (Open Online Distance) Learning with a “reverse approach”
from the student’s viewpoint (this is an innovative approach).
This means an enhancement of learner-centered pedagogy and an active learning approach providing a combining “the best of current knowledge and research”. All this is summarized in the pedagogical framework. - A quality enhancement framework (to ensure the necessary quality) created as an all-encompassing system covering the course as a whole (pedagogy, content, learning, technical issues, evaluation, design and lear) as an innovation in Open Online Distance Learning.
- A student motivating self-evaluation strategy as an innovation in Open Online Distance Learning, using competence-based graphical Mandalas (available from the ToolBox).
- These courses serve as examples of best practice. The well-distributed scope of subjects (science, languages, and humanities) ensure versatile use of the teaching examples and enable an easy way to produce further courses. For the evaluation special guided interviews with trainers are performed (Summaries are done and published as a video).
Pilot courses have been developed in various subjects, like Physics, Biology, English, Arts Education, and business education.
Pilot courses are available for
Science Subjects
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
Electric Circuit |
| Subject | Physics |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 4-5 |
| Age of learners | 17 |
| Language | English Also available in German Language |
| Description of the content |
Simple electric circuits with resistors The course uses the PHet simulation for creating simple electrical circuits (inplemented as an activity) as an OER. |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | |
| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
Einfacher Stromkreis |
| Subject | Physics |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 4-5 |
| Age of learners | 17 |
| Language | German |
| Description of the content |
Einfache elektrische Schaltkreise mit Serienschaltung The course uses the PHet simulation for creating simple electrical circuits (inplemented as an activity) as an OER. |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | |
| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
La Salud y sus dimensiones |
| Subject | Biología |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 3-4 |
| Age of learners | 16-17 |
| Language | Spanish |
| Description of the content |
Análisis de las diferentes dimensiones de la salud y el fomento de hábitos saludables. |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | |
| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) | Work and Energy |
| Subject | Physics in English |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 2 weeks |
| Age of learners | 15-16 |
| Language | English |
| Description of the content |
It’s a course for very good students, it’s a CLIL lesson, where students learn a physic topic” Work and Energy “ in English |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | It’s an example of CLIL lesson |
| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) | The Line in the cartesian plane |
| Subject | Mathematics |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 2 weeks |
| Age of learners | 15-16 |
| Language | English |
| Description of the content |
This is a course for weaker students to revise a very basic math topic |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | It’s a new strategy to motivate students to approach maths |
| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) | Linear equation |
| Subject | Mathematics |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 2 weeks |
| Age of learners | 15-16 |
| Language | English |
| Description of the content |
This is a course for weaker students to revise a very important maths topic |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | Its a new way to motivate students to learn maths |
| Comment (if applicable) |
Language Teaching
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
BE USED TO/ GET USED TO/ USED TO |
| Subject | English |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 4-5 |
| Age of learners | 16-17 |
| Language | English |
| Description of the content | Larn the best way to use the expressions: “be used to / get used to / used to” through videos, grammar activities and, writing and sharing compositions. |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | |
| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
Social Issues |
| Subject | English |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 4-5 |
| Age of learners | 16-17 |
| Language | English |
| Description of the content | Improve the vocabulary related to social issues through songs, brainstorms, reading and reflecting on articles, and writing and sharing compositions. |
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| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
Basic English |
| Subject | English |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 2 weeks |
| Age of learners | 15-16 |
| Language | English |
| Description of the content | It is a course designed for weaker students, they are going to revise the simple present tense and learning to talk about habits, students will do different activities such as listening, reading and writing. |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | Learn the best way to talk about habits in English |
| Comment (if applicable) |
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
Learning with a song |
| Subject | English |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 2 weeks |
| Age of learners | 15-16 |
| Language | English |
| Description of the content | It is a course designed to improve understanding and vocabulary |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | It’s a new way to approach English, using music |
| Comment (if applicable) |
Arts Education
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
Werkanalyse Verkündigung |
| Subject | Arts Education |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 3-4 |
| Age of learners | 16-17 |
| Language | 16-17 |
| Description of the content |
Analyse von fünf ausgewählten Bildern der Malerei der Renaissance. Zuweisen der Abbildungen der richtigen Stelle im Lukas Evangelium. |
| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | Die Zuordnungsaufgabe ist sehr anspruchsvoll und muss entweder gut vorbereitet werden oder muss vereinfacht (oder reduziert) werden. |
| Comment (if applicable) | Voraussetzung für diesen Kurs sing grundlegende Kenntnisse über Stilepochen und die entsprechenden Querverbindungen in die Malerei. |
Other Subjects
| Name of the course (as available in the Moodle platform) |
Business plan
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| Subject | Business studies | |
| Duration (estimated in weeks) | 5 weeks | |
| Age of learners | 16-17 | |
| Language | English | |
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| Advice for teachers (who want to use the course) | It’s a very important business topic to consolidate students’ business profile | |
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Hint: All pilot courses are available as OERs as well. You may download the courses, implement them into your Moodle server, adapt them or enhance them with additional content. All courses ale licensed under a Creative Commons License CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike).
