Web-based Cooperative Teacher Education in Information and Communication Technology

The Project eL3 eLearning and eTeaching in Teacher Pre-and In-Service Education Peter Gorny University of Oldenburg - Laboratory for Multimedia-Supported Teaching D-26111 Oldenburg [email protected]

www-cg-hci.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de

The present situation

Approximately 75 % of all teachers in Germany (> 700,000) do not use a computer for teaching or preparation of teaching material.

Only 5 % use computers in the classroom.

Only 2 % use the internet in the classroom.

(Estimated by Federal educational administrations, 2000)

The Federal organization of the school system leads to a great diversity – and little influence for the Ferderal government.

But singular Federally funded projects might help a little .....

eL3

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The objectives

Development of a system of distance education courses

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for teacher education pre-service = teacher students in-service = professional teachers for all school subjects

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for all school types general schools special schools vocational schools

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For all school levels Primary Lower Secondary Upper Secondary (grades 1 - 4 — age: 6 - 10 yrs.) (grades 5 - 10 — age: 11 - 16 yrs.) (grades 11 - 13 — age: 17 - 19 yrs)

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The background of the project partners

The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research because of the experiences preliminary projects in the consortium : Erlangen: MENON — Multimedia Educational Network MESO — Multimedia Educational Software Observatory Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern Oldenburg: LIF — Lehrerweiterbildung im Fernstudium — Informatische Grundbildung PL UTO — Project to Link Universities and Training Organisations in an European Teacher Training Network MuSIK — Medien-unterstütztes Studium der Informatik Dozentenweiterbildung Multimedia in der Lehre RION — Rechtsinformatik online INVITE — Intuitive Mensch-Technik-Interaktion, Teilprojekt ZIB — Zugang zum Internet für Blinde

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The pedagogical concept

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Awareness of New Media („media competence“)

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Learning by Doing: Direct application of New Media in each school subject

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Technical skills are not presented separately and in advance, but in direct context with classroom content (method: special web-based training modules for those who lack some special skills)

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The web-based material has to be completed with other material to be retrieved from the internet or other sources

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One task for to be solved cooperately in each group at the end of each content unit.

(Self-organized, open, active learning)

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The methodological concept (1)

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A hybrid approach to distance education: Web-based learning material – hypertext-based, highly interactive with embedded applets (simulations / animations) Direct email contact to the lecturer Personal tutorial contact in small groups (max. 5 persons – preferably in one school district – with regular F2F-meetings) Discussion forum for each group and for each course Chatroom for each group Database with glossary, bibliography, expert addresses etc.

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The methodological concept (2)

communication

— Support functions

E-Mail Video-Conference Chat Workflow Management Tools Virtual Bulletin Boards Hypertextsystems Editoren for groups Coodination

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Cooperation

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The methodological concept (3)

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F2F-group work is an important component of the courses: discussions in the plenum

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The methodological concept (4)

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F2F-group work is an important component of the courses: working in small groups on assignments

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The technical basis

The course material is embedded in the learning platform Hyperwave-Learning Suite which offers the necessary funcionality, especially also the groupware functions.

The course material is developed by „content authors“ who use the scripting language LML (Logical Markup Language), developed in Oldenburg on the basis of XML.

The fast Internet access is provided by the universities Erlangen and Oldenburg and by the regional school networks.

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The content (1)

The learning material contains examples of direct applications of ICT in the various schools, specialized for each school subject.

A given content is analyzed, methodological requirements are derived and an appropriate medium / method is derived and transferred into a technical form.

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The content (2)

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The content (3)

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The practical realization

With a staff of 11 full-time developers and additionally 15 teachers on a part-time basis the material will be developed within 2,5 years.

the first courses will start in Spring 2002, each with approx. 30 participants (test phase) the completed course system will go public in Spring 2003 and will give access for approx. 30,000 teachers within two years.

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The eL3 project consortium

Universität Erlangen — FIM Psychologie — Dr. Walter Kugemann Universität Oldenburg — Mediendidaktische Arbeitsstelle und Lernwerkstatt für multimediales Lehren im Didaktischen Zentrum — Prof. Dr. Peter Gorny und Prof. Dr. Hilke Günther-Arndt and many co-workers .....

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