Improving the Use of Feedback in an Online Teaching-Learning Environment: An Experience Supported by Moodle

  1. Miriam Borham-Puyal 1
  2. Susana Olmos-Migueláñez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Revista:
US-China Foreign Language

ISSN: 1539-8080

Año de publicación: 2011

Volumen: 9

Número: 6

Páginas: 371-382

Tipo: Artículo

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Otras publicaciones en: US-China Foreign Language

Resumen

The competency-based approach and the use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in the classroom have changed the way in which teachers and students face the teaching-learning process and have made the development of new teaching and assessing strategies, resources and instruments undeniably necessary. The present paper expounds the creation and implementation of the latter in an online teaching-learning environment, in this particular case, the platform Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) (Studium-USAL). More relevantly, it will place special emphasis on the essential role of feedback in the students’ learning process, as well as on the ways in which online resources contribute to the good practice of feedback, and as a consequence, to the development of essential competencies related to reading literacy

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