The reality is complex, diverse and difficult to analyze, describe and interpret, which is why it is necessary for you to acquire a series of skills throughout your academic training that will allow you to develop your subsequent professional activity. For such circumstance, the learning and application of diverse methodologies of investigation, that are planned in this matter, will allow in one future to select the most suitable one to solve the problems that will be in their next labor scope. Without forgetting that within your work environment you will have to investigate in order to be able to approach possible solutions that improve the context in which your work activity is developed. The diversity of epistemological conceptions applicable to the different social situations will be a source of information for the researcher, allowing him/her to determine which is the most adequate to solve the problem he/she is facing. The aim is not to establish a priority or an order of importance among the various modes of research, but rather it is the research problem that will determine the choice of one methodology or another, making it more valid for this type of problem. All this has not made sense if we do not ask ourselves and answer the question: what do we want to achieve? There are many instruments that we can use to obtain data and, for each link, it is necessary to have knowledge of the wide range of possibilities. A good professional will be one who knows how to choose, in each circumstance, the methodologies that best suit the situation. Therefore, it is necessary to deepen the knowledge and mastery of the various tools at our disposal. Thus, in this area, the main methodologies that can be applied to the educational field will be analysed, indicating their fundamental characteristics, the advantages and disadvantages they present and the most appropriate circumstances or moments to put them into practice.
Contingency plan
Contingency plan (adapted from addendum Covid19):
1. Modifications to content: no changes will be made 2.
2. Teaching methodologies to be maintained: -Lecture - ICT practices - Case studies - Problem solving - Analysis of documentary sources - Obradoiro - Collaborative learning - Mixed testing - Personalised attention Teaching methodologies that are modified: no changes will be made.
3. Mechanisms for personalised attention to students:
E-mail: To be used to make specific queries that do not require synchronous monitoring to be resolved.
- Virtual Campus: Used to give students access to the material, provide them with relevant information and to request synchronous tutorials to resolve doubts and follow up on tutored work.
In addition to synchronous and asynchronous tutorials, students have a consultation forum in which both teachers and students themselves can create new threads associated with the modules or specific activities, to make queries whose answers are useful to the student body as a whole.
- Teams:
A) weekly session in a large interactive group (as in the interactive classes) for the advancement of the contents and the knowledge sheets and tests in the time slot assigned to the subject in the class calendar approved by the Faculty Board.
B) From 1 to 2 sessions per week (or more depending on student demand) in small groups (at least 6 people) for monitoring and support in the completion of the guided worksheets.
This dynamic allows for a standardised and adjusted follow-up of the students' learning needs in order to develop the subject.
4. Modifications in the evaluation: no changes will be made.
Observations:
a) The presence of the students will only be controlled in the classes of the subject through the realization of the tests of knowledge that will be done at the end of each session, being essential that the students carry it out and deliver it being present in the classroom.
Students will be considered to be in attendance as long as they attend classes; they can only be absent three times (without justification). Students may present excuses for missing class, as long as they are medical, work, hospitalisation, etc., but they must be approved (they cannot be, for example, a request for a doctor's appointment, etc.). The main resource to be used for monitoring student attendance will be the Virtual Campus, as well as some other virtual means of recording attendance (e.g. Forms).
b) Non-attendance students can follow the course via the Virtual Campus, although they will not be able to participate in the classes. Students who, given a new situation of confinement, have chosen this option (in the first week of class) or who have already exceeded three absences in total (or two in any of the parts of the subject) will be considered non-attendance students; in this last option, students will automatically pass to this modality. The evaluation of these students will be maintained as stated in the Teaching Guide, in the specific section "observations".
c) The assessment will be entirely through the Virtual Campus, with the differences presented in the teaching guide between face-to-face and non-face-to-face students.
d) The lectures will continue under the non face-to-face modality. A Power Point with the recorded voice of the explanation or through a video stream (the link will appear on the Virtual Campus) will be presented to the students one week in advance on the Virtual Campus.
e)The assessment of the subject will be, in all possible modalities, virtual (due to health circumstances) and will maintain the same weighting of qualifications, regardless of the teaching modality. It will be in the following way: the mixed test will be carried out by Virtual Campus (on the date and time approved by the Xunta de Facultade for the exams of January or July); the tests of knowledge will be in each class. The tests will not be available until the classes begin; the cards that are made will be uploaded to the Virtual Campus on the established date. It should be noted that students who are present in class must take the mixed test and the knowledge tests (the qualification of these tests is always conditioned to the delivery of the documents of the practices in the Virtual Campus). Non-attending students will only have to take the mixed test (see the evaluation section of the teaching guide).
g)The tutorials of the subject will be individual (except in the case of tutorials on the work dossiers) and virtual. Students must request an appointment with the teacher via the Virtual Campus, in the link provided for this purpose. IMPORTANTLY, THE TUTORIALS WILL ALWAYS BE WITHIN THE TIMETABLE PRESENTED BY THE TEACHERS WHO TEACH THE SUBJECT.
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.
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