Teaching competences in virtual environments: a model for their evaluation
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Teacher evaluation, Distance learning, Model buildingAbstract
The competencies of teachers working in virtual learning environments are complex; they have distinctive characteristics associated with novel formats of instructional design and teaching. They involve mastery to manage and monitor students' learning, to give feedback on their performance, to stimulate motivation and group cohesion, to promote facilitating emotions and student's self-regulating and metacognitive processes; so, it is necessary to generate a comprehensive model to evaluate them. This paper describes a Teaching Competences Assessment Model for Online Teaching (MECDL), which considers types of participants’ presence (teaching, cognitive, social, emotional and learning), as well as conversational cycles and instructional sequence. Focus groups with virtual learning modality experts (researchers and teachers) to validate the content of the dimensions, competences and indicators of the MECDL. The resulting parameters were contrasted with different models of online teaching to elaborate the final version of the model, which includes the forecast dimension of the teaching-learning process (five competences and 27 indicators), conduction of the teaching-learning process (three competences and 40 indicators), and evaluation of the impact of the teaching-learning process (one competency and six indicators). The MECDL is proposed to be used as a conceptual framework to guide the performance, evaluation and training of online learning faculty.
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