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 the contents: no changes will be made
2. Methodologies
Teaching methodologies that are maintained:
-Analysis of documentary sources
-Master session
-Mixed test
- Documentary source analysis
-Initial activities
- Personalized attention
Teaching methodologies that are modified: no changes will be made
3. Mechanisms for personalized attention to students:
-Electronic mail: Used to make queries, request virtual meetings to resolve doubts and monitor exercises in classes and the dossier
- Moodle: According to the need of the lighting. They have "thematic forums associated with the modules" of the subject, to formulate the necessary consultations. There are also "specific activity forums", through which the development of theoretical contents of the subject are put into practice.
- Teams:
a) weekly group session to advance the contents and activities in the time slot assigned to the non-calendar subject approved by the academic commission of the master's degree and approved by the Xunta de Faculty (planned for face-to-face students)
b) 1 to 2 weekly sessions (or more as demanded by the students) in a small group for follow-up and support in carrying out the activities. This dynamic allows a standardized and adjusted follow-up of the learning needs of the students to develop the subject (planned for the students)
4. Changes in evaluation: no changes will be made
Comments:
a) The presence of the students will only be controlled in the classes of the subject through the realization of the activities that will be done at the end of each session. Late-night students are considered to be in attendance as long as they attend classes; they may only be absent three times (without justification), but never more than twice. Students can present proof of their absence from class, provided that they are doctors, working doctors, hospital staff, etc., but they must be approved (they cannot, for example, request a doctor's appointment, etc.). The main resource used to control student attendance will be the Moodle, where the activities will take place (if the classes are virtual but in the face-to-face classes).
b) Students who do not attend classes can follow the subject through Moodle, although they will not be able to participate in the activities or late-night classes called by TEAMS. A student will be considered as a non-attending student if, given a new situation of confinement, at that moment he/she would have chosen that option (on the first day of class) or would have already overcome the three absences in total (or in some of the parts of the subject); in this last option the students would automatically pass this modality. The evaluation of this student body will be maintained as stated in the Teaching Guide, in the specific section on "observations".
c) The classes maintain the format of work groups that had been specified in the property if we are in the face-to-face or virtual mode. The work groups will be created by TEAMS, which will be the means through which the activities will be monitored by the teaching staff (these classes will always be in the schedule approved by the academic commission of the master's degree and approved by the Xunta de Faculty). Only for the students who attend the classes.
d) The evaluation of the subject will be virtual (due to health circumstances) and the same weighting of the grades will be maintained, regardless of the teaching modality. It will be in the following way: activities (problem solving) in the evening within each class. The activities will not be enabled until classes begin; they will be presented within the dossier and will be posted in Moodle on the date established by the teaching staff on the first day of class. It is important to remember that the student must present each of the forms of evaluation to overcome the subject, and that is to say, must do mixed test, problem solving and analysis of documentary sources. The non-presential students will have to make only the mixed test and the solution of problems (with the activities that the teacher indicates and that will appear distinctively in moodle)
e) Tutorials on the subject will be individual and virtual. Students will have to request an appointment with the teaching staff via e-mail. VERY IMPORTANT, THE TUTORIALS WILL ALWAYS BE WITHIN THE TIMETABLE PRESENTED BY THE TEACHER GIVING THE MATERIAL.
5. Modifications to the bibliography or webgraphy: no changes will be made. All the working materials are already available in digital form in Moodle
(*)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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