Interactive online books in Danish Business Colleges Dubrovnik, 24 November 2016 Mikkel Krag Brunvold

My background Lecturer in Marketing National Advisor in Marketing and Innovation Author: Writing in Economics, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Systime is a publishing company

Co-creation - integrated part of the internet book Notes taking function Interactive quizzes Your opinion Easy to integrate The users will take notes and write the response to interactive learning objects. The users can customize the internet book to their needs and it is easy to integrate in other online learning platforms.

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Co-operation between Systime and flatrate schools The flatrate schools have access to all Systime’s internet books – more than 320 - the digital library

Win-win situation The schools get a digital library with more than 320 internet books at an affordable price Close dialogue with Systime Systime gets very useful feedback from different user groups Co-creation through dialogue with flatrate schools New authors Development of existing internet books New internet books

Systime Flatrate With an iBog® flatrate all students and teachers at a school will have access to all interactive internet books published by Systime For many subjects there is a large variety of titles and there is digital teaching materials for all subjects The school pays one fixed price per student Show also: The entire library and https://i.systime.dk/ e.g. animations: https://i.systime.dk/index.php?id=169

User involvement: school management and teachers Presentations and courses - with a pedagogical and didactical angle Inspiration meetings for/with teachers Test groups for new features

Case: course builder The course builder is a digital tool for teachers. With this tool the teacher can build a learning path with elements from various internetBooks and other digital material Offers flexibility and exploits the digital format Based on wishes and need for this tool expressed by both teachers and school management

Case: Aarhus Business College Aarhus Business College is Denmark’s oldest business college with a history going as far back as 1865 The second largest business college in Denmark 3200 students 350 full- and part-time employees Strategic priorities Digital teaching materials Sharing of knowledge Innovation Internationalisation

The agreement iBog® Interactive teaching material Digital tools Involvement of users (teachers and students) Co-creation

Decision making proces - at the school Administration Teachers Management Students Librarians Management made the decision as part of obtaining strategic objectives Focus on saving costs and allocating as many ressources as possible to activities with a teaching purpose - reduce administrative costs Save money because the school did not have to handle books, Resources can be used for teaching instead.. Management: flatrate will make co-teaching and substitute teaching easier + support knowledge sharing Students bring computer to school every day - digital material and tools are part of their everyday school life Initiative to have a flatrate agreement may be taken from different stakeholders - teachers, Systime authors Written papers for the teacher are written on computer - problem solving at the computer Teachers: Danish tradition is that teachers decide for themselves which textbooks to use in the class - not necessarily the same across classes in the same subject at the same level Teachers: critical because they will loose their self-determination with regard to the choice of text material

How it works - from a school perspective 4 schools 4 different addresses 100 classes 3.000 students 300 teachers One key no administration no reservations no distribution no invoices Experiences from nov 14 when the flatrate agreement was activated at AABC: All students and teachers had all registered “My account” at Systime - so it was easy overnight to activate the flatrate Students found out at first - and very very excited about it - in a history class working wih China’s history - the students started to speak Chinese … just for the fun of it, because they have found a textbook about the Chinese language Complex administative precedures for reservation, registration and distribution of textbooks to students - needless on the morning when the flatrate was activated Overwhelming and also confusing at the same time

Students and teachers Updated teaching materials More than 250 interactive internet books Students always bring all books Notes are digital in the iBog® Students: very positive reactions - in November when they work at their specialized study project - had a digital library - easy to get access to text books, study Italian, Chinese - any subject Teachers: not all happy - training in class room management because computers get increasingly important, training and courses in the use of the iBog Teachers: getting more and more positive because the number of interactive textbooks is very large - use of textbooks for other upper secondary ecucation programmes: not just textbooks aimed at business college but also for “Gymnasium” and technical college

Students and teachers Library at the student’s computer Search facility across all internet books Cooperation, differentiation and sharing of knowledge Teacher-teacher Teacher-student Student-student

And in the classroom… Student motivation Classroom management in an interpersonal perspective. Theo Wubbels, Utrecht University Dorte Ågård, Klasserumsledelse, Frydenlund

Contact Information & References mikkelbrunvold@gmail.com, Linkedin http://aabc.dk/om-aabc/english/ Systime in English: https://solutions.systime.dk/index.php?id=1435#c10864