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Institutional strategies for educational innovation and e-learning
This presentation discusses strategies for educational innovation and e-learning at Jimma University in Ethiopia. It recommends establishing an educational innovation center to provide resources and training to teaching staff. It also suggests formalizing contact with each faculty through an educational innovation committee and collaborating with educational researchers. Performing needs analyses of teachers and disseminating best practices are also presented as ways to support the adoption of innovative teaching methods using information and communication technologies.
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- 1. Institutional strategies for educationalinnovation and e-learning Prof. dr. Frederik Questier - Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jimma University, Ethiopia, June 2015
- 2. This presentation canbe found at http://questier.com http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier
- 3. E-learning Challenges at JimmaUniversity?
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- 8. 9 How to getevery teacher to apply innovative teaching? ➢ Innovators ➢ will start if no barriers ➢ Early adopters – early majority ➢ will start when you show them best practices ➢ The rest ➢ will need in situ support
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- 11. 12 Unified Theory ofAcceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Venkatesh, V.; Morris; Davis; Davis (2003), "User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward a Unified View", MIS Quarterly 27 (3), pp. 425–478
- 12. 13 Research studies showthat how much and how effectively teachers integrate ICT in their teaching process depends mainly on their educational vision (not age, gender, ...)
- 13. 14 Teachers modern educationalvision → Teacher's educational ICT use
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- 20. 21 Build an educational innovationcenter ➢ Expertise center ➢ Resources for experimentation ➢ Research approach ➢ Mixed team ➢ Educational scientists ➢ Educational technologists ➢ Provide services to teaching staff and students ➢ E-learning environment ➢ Training of teacher staff ➢ Facilitation of innovation
- 21. 22 Formalize contact withfaculties ➢ Educational innovation steering committee ➢ members from ➢ each faculty ➢ central academic services ➢ and/or ➢ in each faculty ➢ an active, full time responsible for educational innovation
- 22. 23 Collaborate with edu researchers ➢Researchers / teachers from faculty of educational sciences could ➢ assist with advice ➢ help in training teacher staff ➢ elaborate research projects around local context ➢ involve internship and thesis students
- 23. 24 Educational mission and visionon teaching / learning ➢ Get it written ➢ Get it known ➢ Get it implemented ➢ ask on every curriculum reform ➢ ask every new teacher to elaborate her vision on it
- 24. 25 Perform a teacherneeds analysis Our results ➢ Didactical support for which tasks? (56%-30%) ➢ Adapt to the way students learn most efficiently ➢ Development of activating tasks ➢ Use of ICT in education ➢ Development of efficient learning materials ➢ Motivating my students ➢ Translate competences to evaluation ➢ Giving feedback to my students ➢ Translate competencies to effective learning activities ➢ Formulating end competences for my courses ➢ Adapt to the prior knowledge of my students
- 25. 26 Perform a teacherneeds analysis Our results ➢ Didactical support in which way? (66%-33%) ➢ Online self study courses ➢ Workshops ➢ Individual support of an educational advisor ➢ Intervision ➢ Project group ➢ Individual coaching/mentoring by an experienced colleague ➢ Formal training 'academical didactics'? ➢ 57% 'yes'
- 26. 27 Disseminate best practices ➢Website, news letter, books, ... ➢ Yearly day of Educational Innovation ➢ External keynotes ➢ Workshops from internal innovators ➢ Panel discussions ➢ Poster sessions
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- 28. 29 Provide didactical seminar for(new) teachers ➢ yearly ➢ 4 days residential ➢ 'mandatory' for new teachers ➢ reflection about personal educational vision ➢ didactical methods ➢ Introduction to educational technologies ➢ feedback with video recordings
- 29. 30 Provide workshops ➢ Howto motivate my students? ➢ How to make my courses more interactive? ➢ Peer assessment for group projects ➢ E-learning platform ➢ Student portfolio ➢ Formulation & analysis of Multiple Choice tests ➢ Intellectual property & plagiarism ➢ Digital formats ➢ Open learning with wiki’s, Wikipedia, wiki courses, ... ➢ Open Source Software & reusable learning resources ➢ Voice techniques
- 30. 31 Provide question drivensupport ➢ Face to face advise and consultancy ➢ E-mail helpdesk ➢ [email protected] ➢ OTRS (Open Source Trouble Ticket System)
- 31. 32 Facilitate innovation projects ➢Open call for projects in colleges ➢ Provide funding ➢ Anything from small seed money to 2y 1 FTE ➢ Challenge: continuation after the funding ➢ Dissemination ➢ Scalability ➢ Implementation in other programmes ➢ Or: assign central people that can go from project to project
- 32. 33 Facilitate communication between studentsand staff [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] + variants for 'ad valvas' and 'work students' Software: GNU mailman : www.lists.org
- 33. 34 Learning Management System prerequisite Educationaldatabase Students Teachers Courses Unique stable codes!
- 34. 35 Involve your LMSusers
- 35. 36 Evolution in E-learning? e-learning1.0 e-learning 2.0 closed source software open source software solitary platform integrated in ICT-environment closed to outer world open where useful, closed where necessary only own institution connected with other institutions focus on technology focus on pedagogy consumption interaction courses communities teacher oriented student centered content management knowledge management upload of materials authoring environment tools intelligent assistant institutional learning environment personal learning environment
- 36. 37 Your LMS shouldbe ➢ A learning environment ➢ Easy to use ➢ Self explanatory ➢ Pre-populated ➢ Automated ➢ An information hub ➢ A communication hub ➢ Social ➢ A community ➢ Addictive
- 37. What do peoplesee in your LMS? your students? your teachers? other staff? external people?
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- 40. 41 Let's avoid the emptybox feeling!
- 41. 42 Learning Object Repositories S.Ternier et al., Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language, D-Lib Magazine, 2008, Volume 14 Number 1/2, doi:10.1045/january2008-ceri
- 42. 43 The LMS ➢ willbecome ➢ the centre of learning ➢ the face of your university ➢ crucial ➢ corner stone infrastructure
- 43. 44 Murphy's law Anything thatcan go wrong will go wrong ➢ power interruptions and surges ➢ overheating (air-conditioning failure) ➢ hardware failure ➢ network interruptions and congestions ➢ bugs ➢ broken updates ➢ unintentional deletes ➢ dirty/faulty data input ➢ security breaches ➢ viruses ➢ fire, flooding, theft
- 44. 45 Scale (up) adequately Preparefor disaster recovery Have separate test and backup setups
- 45. 46 Recommendations for an openinfrastructure ➢ Implement national or institutional portals and repositories for: ➢ Free Open Source Software ➢ E-learning materials ➢ Scientific publications ➢ Research data ➢ Open up and connect your Virtual Learning Environments ➢ OERs ➢ Roaming for students and staff Share experiences and collaborate
- 46. Nominal group technique Whatshould JU do to improve e-learning? 1.Silent generation of ideas 2.Sharing ideas 3.Discussion for clarification of ideas if needed 4.Ranked voting (priority 1, 2, 3) 5.Ranking
- 47. 48 Example results Universityof Cuenca ➢ ICT-edu training for teachers (and students) ➢ Funding for ICT-edu projects ➢ Policy for the use of ICT-edu ➢ Promote teachers that have good use of ICT ➢ Introduce ICT in curriculum, carreer, faculties ➢ Center for educational innovation and technologies ➢ Professional networks to share experiences & information ➢ Create awareness about reasons for ICT-edu use ➢ Promote evirtual, e.g. with workshops ➢ Workshops on ICT-edu ➢ Request feedback from attendance in ICT workshops ➢ Give teachers a few months training (learning) time ➢ Deadline for ICT-edu ➢ Open mind for new technologies ➢ Research about ICT-edu (tools) ➢ Project to implement ICT in the classroom with supervisors that monitor implementation ➢ Stimulate ICT instead of manual work for course descriptions ➢ Collect statistics of availability of students computers ➢ Budget for student computers and computer labs
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- 50. This presentation wasmade with 100% Free Software No animals were harmed