This is the pattern of a history course with some advises to make it successful

1. History course (Cold War) with Moodle platform (24 learners aged 19-20)Pattern 1

2. ICT skills Students' mother tongue should be used with written instructions for teaching the necessary computer skills before the first module in English starts. 2

3. ICT support should be available throughout the course.Only a few key tools should be selected for groups with little experience of using social media. (i.g. e-mail, youtube, download-helper, flv and vlc player to see video off-line)The use of tools should require little logging in and passwords. 3

4. Number and length of contact lessons In a blended course: 2 face-to-face lessons at the beginning to learn the necessary skills, 1 face-to-face intermediate lesson for monitoring course with regard to strengthnesses and weaknesses 4

5. and 1 face-to-face final lesson to register the attained level of togetherness within the group 5

6. The lessons should be long enough to properly address historical contents, ICT mastering and language problems. 60 minute lessons proved too short. 90 minute lessons were barely adequate. 6

7. Tasks and interactionTasks should designed so that they are interesting and relevant to the learners. 7

8. One way to achieve this is to present a comparative assessment and evaluation of contributions to the wider debates and ask the students to take part in a role playing on controversies relating to the subject. So that last lessons should be very useful to create more interaction among students. 8

9. Cold War Chess game Beside, you can add a Cold War Chess game to be run at distance. Here are the list of the countries: 9

10. Cold War Chess gameKing- US, USSR; Queen- US, USSR; Bishop- UK, Italy; Czechoslovakia, Hungary; 10

11. Cold War Chess gameKnight- Greece, Turkey; Cuba, China; Castle - W. Germany, S. Korea; E. Germany, Poland; 11

12. Cold War Chess gamePawn- Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands; Romania, Bulgaria, N. Korea, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Chile, Ukraine, Latvia. 12

13. Intervention Given that this history course is planned inside a formal curriculum, after 4 or 5 modules a compulsory assessment will be managed by the trainers. 13

14. InterventionEach student should fill in a questionnaire or write a essay of approximately 800 words. 14

15. ForminggroupsGroups in which the members feel equal to each other work better than groups where there are differences in status, skills etc. 15