Testimonio Marie Rodriguez

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Be one of the first to use the new PANAL system in Funiber (Puerta de Acceso al Campus Virtual) as a beta tester. Give it a try here, using your student acces codes.

The PANAL project is designed to to be the acces point, and service aggregator, for all the academic services offered by FUNIBER, the first, and foremost, of them being the virtual campus. However it is algo a place to receive more information relating to potentially interesting programs for the student and news. Expect shortly a new channel dedicating to solving certification requests and personal information updates.

Teaching English as a foreign language.

VIRTUAL EDUCATION

The virtual education allows the student to have more autonomy and flexibility in his learning process:
• Allows eliminating schedule’s incompatibility problems.
• No more inconvenient about transportation.
• Each student organizes and plans his study’s rhythm according to his interests.
• The learning is to be applicable to the professional and working field.
The evaluation system consists in a series of tests and participations in on-line discussions, some of them mandatory and some others by choice, that allows the student to carry on the assignments, by respecting, at the same time, others students’ learning style and time availability.

THE VIRTUAL CAMPUS

The virtual campus is the principal tool for interaction and learning through the multiple activities that take place in it:
• Access to the academic programs’ documentation.
• Comments’ and experiences’ sharing. Questions’ resolutions with tutors and partners in the forums and discussions.
• Access to the programs’ bibliography and informational links. In addition to this, the student will receive the programs’ printed material.

DESCRIPTION

Professional Master’s program that leads the teacher to develop the necessary skills to teach English as a foreign language, not only in relation to the teaching practice in the classroom but also in work fields like the design and elaboration of teaching materials, planning, centers and courses’ management, editorial activities, teachers’ formation, etc.

OBJECTIVES

• To adapt new ideas and strategies to the real context of the teaching professional practice.
• To familiarize the teacher with the current linguistically focus.
• To innovate in the teaching practice.

MODALITY

Entirely virtual.

METODOLOGY

Pedagogical model were the student has a high degree of autonomy when it comes to planning his activities. The contents and works related to each assignment are made according to directions given in the virtual platform, which will be the place for academic interaction.

TO WHOM IS THE PROGRAM DIRECTED?

• Teachers of ESL / ELD and ELL in primary and secondary schools, and adults’ programs.
• Professionals in other related fields that intent to work as teachers of English as a second language.

Download our brochure: English

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Cindy Rayas

Did you know?

Did you know...

• Over 3.9 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2007 term.
• The economic downturn and the rise of fuel prices will mean more students in the on-line education.
• Over 85 percent of all online students coming from the within 50 miles of campus (local) or from within the state or surrounding states (regional).
• 83,9% of the online students are studying at the undergraduate level.

Source: “Staying the Course. Online Education in the United States, 2008”

The Funiber USA team

From left to right:
Christian Buitrago
Gigliola Insuasty
Lorena Peñaloza
Marcela Ramirez
Eliana Manjarres
Marcela Gomez

Elizabeth Mendez