Teachers new role in web-based teaching and national co-operation in Finnish Virtual Polytechnic Finnish Virtual Polytechnic Annika Michelson

Internet shopping and planning

Books and music

Internet banks

Multimedia computers, phones, video, GPS, WirelessLAN

Electronic services

eCitizen and eVoting in Estonia

eSchool in Estonia

Online discussions

Internet telephone

Educational environments R5 Generation

Blogs

Wikipedia

Open Sources – cross-platforms Marratech Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Breeze) Webex Dimdim

 A national network co-operation organization formed by all (29) Finnish polytechnics joined in one portal -  At the Finnish Virtual Polytechnic portal you can find courses offered by the polytechnics.  The flexible study right means that you can choose courses from any polytechnic.  Since 2001, about 1000 people have participated in the production team work.  In the project ESF more than 300 producers, 50 coordinators, 8 area coordinators, 15 web designers and a lot of polytechnic’s own support staff participated. Finnish Virtual Polytechnic

Production teams at their best…

...learned to know eLearning pedagogics and learning objects!

I do not understand what a learning object is! Look what a nice learning object I did – Pasi helped me!...learned to plan learning objects

....learned to know the world of informatics! Is this the first or the second pedagocical function...? What does metadata mean and why do we need it?

...learned to observe courses from eLearning point of view! Is the pedagogical soloution good? Is the visual image good?

eProduction environment TeamSpeak Skype Dyngate …learned to use new tools

…were angry! Members of our team were not ready to use web-based tools DOES NOT FUNCTION, TOO SLOW NOT LOGICAL!

... were happy! What a good learning object! I have done this! The students liked it!

...from giving lectures to be a supervisor guiding students The information flow is huge It is easier and faster to get help It is easier to do group work Online supervision and guiding is connected to real time as is a normal classroom lecture – no change there!

The importance of networks, especially open networks, is growing...