EN LINEA: VHL Spanish eCourse is a complete standalone online introductory Spanish course, specially designed for online courses and distance learning applications.
Because EN LINEA is based on Vista Higher Learning's best-selling printed textbook program, VISTAS, Second Edition, it delivers classroom-proven content and pedagogy in a ground-breaking, highly interactive online environment.
EN LINEA reduces instructor prep time, providing all the rich content students need and instructors expect.
Audio
EN LINEA presents countless examples of real language narrated by native Spanish-speakers. Vocabulary, pronunciation, dialogs, and learning strategies are emphasized by using high-quality streamed audio.
Video
EN LINEA integrates a 2-part video component in each lesson, totaling 2.5 hours of streaming video that truly supports what students are learning.
The Fotonovela video depicts daily interactions within the context of the lesson's theme and models the language students are learning in the lesson.
The Panorama cultural video includes cultural footage of every country in the Spanish-speaking world with Spanish narrations that students can understand.
Tutorials
In every lesson, EN LINEA includes in-depth animated vocabulary and grammar tutorials that present the core content of these sections.
Activities
Students build listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in every lesson by a completing interactive learning activities. To keep students engaged, many different types of activities are presented, including:
- Listening
- Multiple-Choice
- Matching
- Fill in the Blanks
- Audio Recording
- Short Essay
Communication Skills
Because providing adequate oral communication practice in an online course can be a challenge, EN LINEA introduces partner activities. Students interact with a partner online to complete communicative activities. These activities allow students to practice, record their answers together, review their recording, and then submit it for instructor review. Other audio recording activities throughout EN LINEA can be completed by students invidually.
Assessment and Classroom Management
The assessment tools within EN LINEA allow instructors to easily deploy online testing. Instructors can choose from among four pre-written tests per lesson, plus two quarter-end exams and two semester-end exams. Instructors decide which exams should be made available for students to take, and when.
Automatic grading of all discrete-item activities--including vocabulary and grammar section quizzes--minimizes grading time and speeds the process of delivering feedback to students.
EN LINEA's integrated Gradebook and Classroom Management components track performance, assignment deadlines and completion, and exam scores, and allow instructors to communicate online with the entire class or individual students.
Easy Startup
Instructors never have to answer students' technical questions. Vista Higher Learning's technical support staff provides direct assistance to both students and instructors.
EN LINEA doesn't cost you or your institution any money to implement. Students buy the code to access EN LINEA and add themselves to your course.
Because Vista Higher Learning hosts EN LINEA for you, it doesn't take up space on your school's system or require additional support or maintenance.
If you currently use a course management system like WebCT or Blackboard, students can link into EN LINEA from your course. You can easily export grades from EN LINEA into your WebCT or Blackboard gradebook as well.
Contact Us to Learn More
To help you evaluate EN LINEA: VHL Spanish eCourse for use in your fall classes, we would like to offer you complimentary instructor access to the program.
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