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About the Course

Welcome to Foundations of Virtual Instruction! This course will help you 'up' your game and develop the advanced skills and techniques that elude even some of the most experienced virtual teachers in the K-12 space. Examine pitfalls and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have the most significant impact on student learning in a blended or online environment. When you complete this course, you will be able to: • Craft virtual learning experiences that align with your student's needs. • Set up a learning environment to get to know your students, and they get to know each other. • Use a variety of online tools to provide feedback and personalize the learning experience. • Identify at-risk students and employ effective strategies for teaching them. • Compare and contrast online and face-to-face learning communities. • Apply strategies to make virtual courses more human....

Top reviews

MD

Nov 18, 2020

I am very thankful to all the creators and developers of this course, It really gave me the opportunity to understand the terminologies, legalities and a lot more,

Once again Thank you very much!!

JC

Oct 25, 2020

The readings are interconnected throughout the lessons, making it easy for me to understand the lesson completely. More interactive materials aside from discussion prompts are recommended.

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By Megan M

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Apr 1, 2020

This class is basically just a woman reading a book and showing some poorly made PPTs. Most of the links do not work properly and a lot of the questions on the tests include information that is nowhere to be found on the lecture, transcripts or extra materials.

By Elizabeth S

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Nov 2, 2020

Some useful information and links but badly implemented. Not engaging at all, hardly any interactive content and no proper assignments. Very US-centric. Typos in some of the quizzes. May as well just read a book.

By Paola G

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Jul 14, 2020

Muy largos los videos. Nada de interacción. Son profesores experimentados en el tema pero no lo ponen en practica. La evaluación final es demasiado extensa

By Richard J

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Aug 25, 2020

If I could be very honest, and since I assume that that is fine, may I say that this course was one of the least satisfactory educational experiences that I can imagine. The instructor read from prepared notes at a very very fast pace, never appeared on screen (imagine a virtual class and there is no "face time"!!), there were several typographical errors on slides, e.g., commnicated WITHOUT the u -- very easy to proofread slides -- and only one reference was to material past 2014. The final "quiz" was an amalgamation of all multiple choice questions over 4 weeks, and really not geared to those of us who might teach virtually and who would have found benefit from some links that did not work. Very surprising that this course would simply have been presented in such a way.

By Karina W W

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Aug 9, 2020

The course in itself was very dissappointing. As per other peers evaluating the course, the expectations were high on this subject, especially due to COVID-19. It would have been an excellent opportunity for teachers to grow and learn more about what it's into virtual teaching while during this social distancing time.

The lessons provided were mostly facts and history rather than a "how to" program. Irrevelant to worlwide teaching and applicable to our jobs.

I definitely would not recommend the course. I have steamed rolled through the course 1/5 without gaining anything meaningful or vitual for actual virtual instruction.

By Jennifer N

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Jan 12, 2021

Basically a review of common sense of virtual education. If you're a fast reader (since this course is entirely pages of text, with the exception of the introduction video where you 'meet' the instructor you never hear from again), you can get through the whole thing in a week. Mostly beneficial as a way to identify resources for you to get information on topics/tools of interest on your own.

By Richard M H

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Oct 14, 2020

Although the basic information provided by this course was good, overall the course was very poor. Firstly, it was just a series of readings: the course failed to practice what it preached and provided near no actual lectures or presentations. Secondly, although the course is marketed internationally most of the information provided was specific to the US.

By Yurgenis R

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Sep 17, 2018

This course has a poor method to teach, the instructor (People that speak) sometimes is difficult to understand her and talk very fast and in many cases I don't know of what is she talking. I'm really disappointed

By giselle b

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Sep 8, 2020

The instructor keeps stumbling over the reading, and many of the words are misspelled!

By Dino P C

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Aug 17, 2020

A bad example of online instruction

By Nikos B

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Feb 13, 2024

A well-organized and informative course in a range of topics of Virtual Learning and Teaching with reference to American Education. Five stars goes to methodological information about curriculum design as well as education policy. It provides a brief overview of the whole MOOC specialization.

By Deleted A

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Aug 4, 2020

It is a well demanding course. If you need to learn the basics of virtual/online/remote teaching is the perfect course for you. No requirements are necessary but a lot of interest in knowledge and wish to improve relationship with students in virtual orientation teaching!

By Dianne S V B

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Nov 9, 2020

Excellent course! Very relevant as it really does provide interesting, informative facts on how to address issues that may be encountered when dealing with everything that pertains to virtual instruction! Love the gamut of information that it provided.

By Roger M V C

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Mar 2, 2022

Un curso dinámico y muy completo para poder comprender todo el proceso de eduación virtual, desde sus antecedentes a la actualidad. Ha sido interesante y enriquecedor poder conocer las distintas experiencias de otros docentes también.

By Nagendra P P

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Nov 27, 2020

A wonderfully designed course for teachers and aspiring teachers who would like to enhance their skills in virtual Education. Thanks to Ms Cindy and University of California, Irvine for launching this course on Coursera

By DEMETRIO A R O

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Mar 8, 2022

Muy bueno y recomendable para todos aquellso que están en el mundo de la educación online. Despeja muchas dudas y sobre todo pone en manifiesto diversas herramientas para la enseñanza-aprendizaje del alumno.

By Sebastián M

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Jan 24, 2022

It was a very interesting course, specially for me, that I'm becoming a new virtual teacher. The only thing that I may change is a more interactive way of teaching, not only with readings.

By CHARLES H

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Mar 9, 2022

This introductory course does a nice job of going over the history of online learning/education along with explanations of the laws of education and how they relate to online learning.

By Ph.D A H

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Jan 9, 2021

Thank you University of California, Ä°rvine and instructor CindyCarbajal for Foundations of Virtual Instruction course! I enjoyed of your modules! I am thankfull for coursera

By Mehriban K

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Feb 9, 2021

These days, this is the right course for teachers! I highly appreciate everyone who managed all these readings, materials, videos, quizzes and etc. Thanks a lot!

By Amanda B

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May 28, 2019

This course introduced me to the world of Virtual Teaching, gave me awareness of online tools, and inspired me to continue developing as a professional.

By english 4

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Nov 28, 2020

This course is very helpful for me and provides a lot of tool for the online teacher to apply in effective online teaching. Thank you so much

By Carmen M S O

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Mar 12, 2022

Excelente curso para el aprendizaje de la educación virtual. Intenso, nos deja bastante lecturas y bibliografía a explorar. Muchas gracias.

By PEJVELEZ

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Mar 11, 2022

Excelente curso para actualizarte y motivarte a aplicar nuevas herramientas y métodos que se ajusten a los diversos perfiles de estudiantes