EAIR Forum, Prague New Learning Architecture for the University Jaroslava Mikulecká University of Hradec Králové Czech Republic

EAIR Forum, Prague Learning Architecture Design, Sequencing, Integrating, of all electronic and non-electronic components of learning to deliver the optimum improvement in competence and performance of students and teachers.

EAIR Forum, Prague Why New Learning Architecture? It is not the strongest of the species who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsible to change Charles Darwin

EAIR Forum, Prague Knowledge management approach Knowledge building capabilities shared and creative problem solving, implementing and integrating new methodologies and tools, experimenting and prototyping, importing and absorbing technologies from outside of the University’s knowledge

EAIR Forum, Prague Core Capabilities Constitute a competitive advantage for a firm; they have been built up over time and cannot be easily imitated: Physical systems, Employee knowledge and skills, Managerial systems, Organization’s values and norms.

EAIR Forum, Prague Trust and social capital Trust is expectation that arrives within a community of regular, honest and cooperative behavior, based on commonly shared norms on the part of the other members of that community. Social capital is the capability that arises from the prevalence of trust in the society or in certain parts of it Social capital is developed and fostered when individuals believe that their actions will be appropriately reciprocated, and that individuals will meet their expected obligations.

EAIR Forum, Prague KM at the Universities Universities usually possess a modern information infrastructure, To share their knowledge with others is very natural for professors and teachers in general, To acquire knowledge from accessible sources as fast as possible is the natural desire of students, There is usually a trustful atmosphere at universities, no one is neither hesitating nor being afraid of publishing or otherwise disseminating her or his knowledge

EAIR Forum, Prague New Methodologies and Tools From classroom teaching to e-learning: modern presentation equipment digital cameras digital libraries (as ACM and IEEE digital library - ) e-books CD ROMs with CBT

EAIR Forum, Prague New Methodologies and Tools e-packs (as on WebCT page distance learning management software (e-learning systems as WebCT, LOTUS Learning Space, Blackboard and many others) authoring tools software (as Macromedia Flash or Autorware) web based scheduler and course planner

EAIR Forum, Prague Financial Resources TEMPUS project S-JEP : Multimedia and Distance Learning for Teachers. SOCRATES/MINERVA project No CP CZ: E-DILEMA - E-resources and Distance Learning Management Research stream CEZ: J20/98: “Knowledge Management for Information Society”, Research stream CEZ: J20/98: “ICT in the global education”, Special funds of the Ministry of Education

EAIR Forum, Prague Finance Communication HW (development, SW Technical support Training Study materials

EAIR Forum, Prague Motivation financial accreditation competition

EAIR Forum, Prague Competition of distance courses The main aim of the competition is to stimulate cooperation among Czech (and Slovak) universities, to motivate development and deployment of on-line courses, to evaluate quality of on-line courses materials, to demonstrate on-line teaching methodology, problems and achievements.

EAIR Forum, Prague Evaluation procedure The evaluation procedure has two-steps: 1.The jury grades course materials (1 to 9, the more the better) according to the criteria given in the table below. 2.A workshop is organised where the authors of the best courses demonstrate their products to the jury and to all interested people.

EAIR Forum, Prague Evaluation Criteria The basic features (35% of all points) –Mesurable and testable course objectives –Intuitiveness of course control –The overall design of the course –Course graphics –Usage of multimedia –Lucidity –Resourcefulness –Response time of the system –Quality of supplementary materials

EAIR Forum, Prague Evaluation criteria Motivation of the students (27% of all points) Discussion groups and whiteboard Workgroups Practical examples Planning and organising of learning process (8%) Support with calendar, vocabulary, index, search possibilities

EAIR Forum, Prague Evaluation criteria Feedback (30%) Monitoring of student’s progress Autotests Tests, assessments, assignments, exams

EAIR Forum, Prague eDILEMA project Objectives of the project : to develop innovative practices for building joint electronic educational resources and services for distance learning at a collaborative principle to develop a optimal strategy for converting traditional way of teaching to mixed-mode distance delivery to test the designed practices via building distributed e-resources and services for distance learning in the subject area of business studies

EAIR Forum, Prague Digital Library of Learning Objects Learning Object is any entity, digital or non- digital, that may be used for learning, education or training. Metadata for learning object describe relevant characteristics of the learning object DL – controlled set of digital information objects – special type of information system fulfilling the role of library

EAIR Forum, Prague DL is not … web – is not controlled multimedia database – does not provide library services on-line information resource – need not to be on-line

EAIR Forum, Prague Metadata for DL 1. general information on the resource itself 2. semantics of the resource 3. pedagogical attributes 4. technical characteristics 5. conditions for use 6. meta-meat data

EAIR Forum, Prague Metadata Standardisation IMS - has produced a wide range of specifications for learning technologies; recently Digital Repositories White Paper Dublin Core – developing a widely used resource discovery specifications ARIADNE – developing concepts and tools for e-learning with a strong emphasis on the sharing and reuse of e-resources -

EAIR Forum, Prague e-Repository - Physical View

EAIR Forum, Prague E-Repository – logical view