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History course (Cold War) with Moodle platform (24 learners aged 19-20)

Pattern

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ICT skills

Students' mother tongue should be used with written instructions for teaching the necessary computer

skills before the first module in English starts.

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ICT support should be available throughout the course.

Only a few key tools should be selected for groups with little

experience of using social media. (e.g. e-mail, youtube, download-helper, flv

and vlc player to see video off-line)The use of tools should require little

logging in and passwords.

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Number and length of contact lessons

In a blended course: 2 face-to-face lessons at the beginning to learn

the necessary skills, 1 face-to-face intermediate lesson for monitoring

course with regard to strengthnesses and weaknesses

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and 1 face-to-face final lesson to register the attained level of

togetherness within the group

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The lessons should be long enough to properly address historical contents, ICT mastering and

language problems. 60 minute lessons proved too short. 90 minute

lessons were barely adequate.

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Tasks and interactionTasks should designed so that they are

interesting and relevant to the learners.

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One way to achieve this is to present a comparative assessment and evaluation

of contributions to the wider debates and ask the students to take part in a

role playing on controversies relating to the subject. So that last lessons should

be very useful to create more interaction among students.

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Cold War Chess game

Beside, you can add a Cold War Chess game to be run at distance. Here are the list of the countries:

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Cold War Chess game

King- US, USSR; Queen- US, USSR; Bishop- UK, Italy; Czechoslovakia,

Hungary;

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Cold War Chess game

Knight- Greece, Turkey; Cuba, China; Castle - W. Germany, S.

Korea; E. Germany, Poland;

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Cold War Chess game Pawn- Norway, Denmark,

Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands; Romania, Bulgaria, N. Korea, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Chile,

Ukraine, Latvia.

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Intervention

Given that this history course is planned inside a formal

curriculum, after 4 or 5 modules a compulsory assessment will be

managed by the trainers.

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Intervention

Each student should fill in a questionnaire or write a essay of

approximately 800 words.

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Forming groups

Groups in which the members feel equal to each other work better

than groups where there are differences in status, skills etc.