Transcript Ramón Garrote Jurado & Tomas Pettersson [email protected]; [email protected] Allégatan 1, 501 90 Borås, Sweden LiveUSB Mediated Education (LUME) A complete set of instructional material.

Ramón Garrote Jurado & Tomas Pettersson
[email protected]; [email protected]
Allégatan 1, 501 90 Borås, Sweden
LiveUSB Mediated Education (LUME)
A complete set of instructional material and portable software for a course
brought together on a USB memory device.
LUME LiveUSB Mediated Education
All course material, such as videos and
texts stored on the same memory
device.
Modern
pedagogical
methods
Information and
Communication
Technology
Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER together with the LUME method
can make education accessible to large
Open
numbers of students worldwide. The
Educational
All programs stored and executed from
advent of cheap USB flash drives with
the USB-stick.
large memory capacity means that
Resources
materials for lifelong learning, distance
A flash memory for each student! Work
learning, self study as well as onon any computer, any place, any time.
Adaption of Engineering Education to the use of net independent software campus and blended learning can be
All work and program settings are saved
distributed at low cost and utilized
A course about the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS), given by the University of Borås to
on the stick between sessions.
without regard to the availability or
lecturers in Cuba, Guatemala and Peru.
cost of Internet connections.
A TOOL TO FACILITATE
The programs Moodle (a free, open-source LMS), Sumatra PDF, VLC media player, LyX, HotPotatoes
For teachers the LUME method offers a
Pedagogical flexibility. E-learning.
6, AbiWord, MoWeS and Portable Open Office was stored on a 4Gb memory stick together with
complete tool for getting the most out
Blended learning. Problem Based
more than 50 Spanish-language videos with practical guides about how to use Moodle,
of OER even if internet connections are
Learning. Lifelong learning. Distance
downloaded from YouTube. Each student got a copy of the flash memory and headphones to be
scarce or expensive.
education. Self-studies.
able to work undisturbed.
The course is problem based, formed around the main assignment for each participant to select a
course from their practice and adapt the existing course material to the LMS, possibly add some
new material and prepare for the appropriate use of tools, such as discussion boards, grade book
etc. when teaching the course in the future.
Read more at:
Experiences from the three times the course were given demonstrates that the participants are well
http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/include/getd prepared to use a LMS in a pedagogically sound way, i.e. as a tool to facilitate constructivist, learner
oc.php?id=4473&article=1209&mode=p centered methods. The teachers are now aware of the vast free resources (OER) on the internet and
have a tool to utilize them.
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http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet27/
Acknowledgments
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This work has been produced with financial assistance from the European Community; contract DCI-ALA/19.09.01/08/ 19189/160-922/ALFA III9. The contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and in no way to be regarded as reflecting the official views of the European Union.
Recursos Educativos Abiertos
(REA) –Open Educational
Resources (OER)