Pedagogy Studies in a High-Tech Environment András Benedek - Judit Vidékiné Reményi Department of Technical Education Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hungary

Pedagogy courses – the flagships of learning innovations High-quality teaching is a prerequisite for high-quality education and training “Teaching can be taught, to some degree, but not the way many graduate schools of education do it, with a lot of insipid or marginally relevant theorizing and pedagogy.” fire-bad-teachers.html Drastic changes of the „social context” of teacher education

IT diffusion – new phenomena increased access to broadband internet mobile networks individualized learning transformation in terms of quality formulation of a new quality service reference-system

The basic question How to introduce a non-typical learning environment in an organization of higher education with significant traditions? Answer: blending the learning environments

The introduction of the Moodle environment Starting – 2006 Linux operational system, open source course management system, GPL license PHP program language Webserver: Appache Database: MySQL Web 2.0 – E-learning Moodle Users: 4500 (2010)

Subject: Digital Pedagogy - new content -

Follow-up of the participants - sophisticated, tailor-made feedback -

For participants of the courses create their own detailed user profiles and blogs share their ideas and thoughts participate in learning actively and continuously

Flexible course organization subject-based (organized for a specific topic) time-based (organized according to a time schedule weekly or for a semester) community-based (built on a central forum )

Users of the Moodle system students administrators lecturers with different rights

Statistics on communication

Clusters by different student- interest

User Matrix

The development-transformation of the learning environment Traditional Atipycal Blended Networked learning M-learning High-tech learning environment used as a source of content as a source of information as a means of communication as a means of knowledge generation

New questions These questions may arise regarding the usage of an electronic learning environment: –Who uses it and for what? –When and how? –How effectively?

Conclusion The new generations, broadly meaning the modern individual, can indeed get used to the new environment – partly virtual, and operating in divided time in a significant part, and turn the organic learning environment provided by the e-communication techniques into instrumental knowledge.

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