An e-Education Platform for Teaching-Learning Processes that are Difficult to Visualize

摘要

We present a teaching-learning platform for e-education that was developed to facilitate the bi-directional communication between instructor and learner when teaching-learning the behavior of non-visible processes. This platform also facilitates the educational evaluation of the conceptual and practical understanding of the learner. We discuss cognitive load theory within the context of e-education and its influence on the design and development of an educational platform of this type. We describe the use of this teaching-learning platform in an educational model without the presence of the instructor, and as a complementary material to the courses. We also discuss the experience with this platform when used in networking and operating systems courses. We describe those characteristics of this platform that simplify and facilitate the communication between learner and instructor. We also describe the current implementation of our e-educational platform and discuss the evaluation of our platform by students of networking and operating systems courses in a distance learning program.