eFaculty and eLearning Marjan Krašna Tuzla – BIH 1. – 5. December, 2009
Agenda eFaculty CMS - Content Management System LCMS - Learning Course Management System Internet – intranet and safety eLearning
CMS
LCMS
Internet – intranet and security
Three faculties: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics WAN Access – 1Gbps Intranet infrastructure – 1Gbps backbone (UTP and optics) Level 3 aware switch on backbone nodes. Security policy: Servers are protected (Windows 2003, 2008, Linux, VMS) Personal computers (DHCP firewalled or public IP) Symantec Endpoint protection Backup (automated – incremental for servers)
LCMS
Current development Transition to new CMS (deadline next year) Blended learning – broad application of LCMS (deadline next semester) Virtual file storage – better data protection Upgrade of computer rooms and multimedia equipment Establishment of Center for distance education Learning material production, ICT certified training, and Support.
eLearning topics eLearning projects The motivation of teachers and students in developing electronic educational resources multimedia for teachers, project work
eLearning projects
Using LMS (Moodle) SCORM packages Projects PowerPoint Word Audio and Video production SPSS Environmental studies: For 3 rd year primary schools For secondary schools
E-environment 3 rd year primary school
E-environment secondary schools
The motivation of teachers and students in developing electronic educational resources
Multimedia for teachers multimedia is fun shorter time is needed for acquiring required knowledge larger portion of the brain is active if multimedia material is used in education
Project “Multimedia” Primary reason: Preparing students at the Faculty of Education for multimedia teaching material Secondary reason: Establish new studying subject MULTIMEDIA 60 hours, 30 hr lectures, 30 hr practical experiment year 2: traditional multimedia year 3: computer supported multimedia
Goals of the study subject become aware of the importance of mono/multimedia system in education; become aware where and how they can use mono/multimedia systems in their work; get qualified and motivated for creative problem solution in primary and secondary schools using mono/multimedia systems; get qualified for use of mono/multimedia system during their studying and research & development activities. get acquainted with methods and rules for making of simple mono/multimedia systems in their classes and basic laws of special didactics for that field.
Obstacles Insufficient computer knowledge, Diversities of academic programs, Unawareness of importance of multimedia, Software and Hardware
Project work Faculty projects Ministry funded project EU projects International projects Assign students to the project
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