The use of synchronous platforms applied to journalism education

Abstract

Synchronous systems are very useful in distance learning, and to facilitate interaction and discussion in real time, which is done immediately feedback between teacher and student. The purpose of this paper is to make an assessment of the usefulness of the platform Elluminate Live! in the reality of teaching the Journalism Degree UDIMA.

Among the major uses of this tool to highlight the following: on-line tutorials, enabling students to develop group work, share documents and applications, the collaboration of experts from anywhere in the world and live presentations students via webcam.

This study details the experiences and results performed with different subjects of the Degree. In conclusion it is demonstrated that most students consider Elluminate Live! an easily accessible tool and very useful, as course after course increasingly demanding training sessions by the teachers.