Media in higher education (24.01.2013)

Media in Higher Education

Marko Puusaar, Jüri Lõssenko, Ene Koitla Estonian Information Technology Foundation

Estonian e-Learning Development Centre

Higher Education – Higher Level Learning? 24th January 2013

Plan Hello

The role of multimedia in learning Flipped classroom

Lecture capture

Estonian e-Learning Development Centre

Our passion Supporting learning through the internet

Some facts and figures

!   We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in Europe with 90 000+ users and 47+ schools

Some facts and figures

!   We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in Europe with 90 000+ users and 47+ schools

!   We have supported the development of new e-learning materials in the amount of 3000+ European credit points (ECTS)

Some facts and figures

!   We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in Europe with 90 000+ users and 47+ schools

!   We have supported the development of new e-learning materials in the amount of 3000+ European credit points (ECTS)

!   All the developed materials are freely available in our central repository (www.e-ope.ee/en/repository/) under a Creative Commons license

Co-operation

The Estonian e-University consortium

The Estonian e-VET consortium

All together 44 schools all over Estonia

www.e-ope.ee

? Should more multimedia be used to support learning and teaching in higher education?

Role of multimedia in education

Assist teaching and learning •  Illustrate •  Condense •  Simulate

Provide experiences by using cinematic techniques

•  Movement •  Viewpoint

•  3D •  Slow/fast motion

•  Staged events (e.g. dramatised enactments)

Demonstrate skills •  Manual/craft •  Body movement •  Reasoning •  Language

Nurture learning •  Stimulating appetite for learning

•  Motivating a strategy by showing its success •  Alleviating isolation of the distant learner •  Reassuring/encouraging self confidence •  Entertain, fascinate, delight, amuse

before | in | after

Flipped classroom

Flipped classroom

Before class: get to know the topic In class: discuss and synthesize

What is it? Recording o f c lass room-based activities in a digital format that students can then watch over the web, on a computer or their mobile device

What is it?

Why? Life brings us unexpected events

Students work

Education has to be flexible

Who uses it (in Estonia)

!   University of Tartu

!   Tallinn University of Technology

!   Tallinn University

!   Estonian University of Life Sciences

!   Estonian Information Technology College

!   Tallinn Health Care College

!   TTK University of Applied Sciences

!   Lääne-Viru College

!   Estonian National Defence College

!   Estonian Academy of Security Sciences

!   Estonian Aviation Academy

!   Tallinn Polytechnic School

Lecture Capture in Estonia

•  5500+ lectures recorded and published…

Lecture Capture in Estonia

•  5500+ lectures recorded and published…

•  …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some of them are mobile units)

Lecture Capture in Estonia

•  5500+ lectures recorded and published…

•  …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some of them are mobile units)

•  281 000+ views

Lecture Capture in Estonia

•  5500+ lectures recorded and published…

•  …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some of them are mobile units)

•  281 000+ views

•  147+ hours captured every week

Lecture Capture in Estonia

•  5500+ lectures recorded and published…

•  …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some of them are mobile units)

•  281 000+ views

•  147+ hours captured every week

•  14 universities and applied science universities using the same solution

Lecture Capture in Estonia

•  5500+ lectures recorded and published…

•  …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some of them are mobile units)

•  281 000+ views

•  147+ hours captured every week

•  14 universities and applied science universities using the same solution

•  about 50 000+ students

Recap

•  Multimedia helps to attract attention and brings

•  Flipping the classroom is possible

•  Education can be flexible (and lecture capture helps in that)

Once again Should more multimedia be used to support learning and teaching in higher education?

Thank you Lets talk…

Marko Puusaar

[email protected] Skype: mpuusaar

Twitter: @mpuusaar

Thanks for the images:

!   Slides 18 and 19: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cali4beach/8104594017/ by Cali4beach under CC BY 2.0

!   Slide 20: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmquan/2289728133/ by pmquan under CC BY 2.0

!   Slide 31: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kusito/363846688/ by Markus M. under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0