www.howest.b e Presentation Howest – study visit Coventry Monday, 5th December
Dec 18, 2014
www.howest.be
Presentation Howest – study visit Coventry
Monday, 5th December
Nice to meet you!
Liesbeth De Blaere,Staff member HOWEST – University College West-Flandres
Belgium
Who are we?
E-learning in Belgium
Issues concerning e-learning
Examples of Belgian e-learning
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• +/- 6000 students• 24 bachelor programs and 7 master programs
• Architecture• Health care• Business and management• Industrial sciences and technology• Education• Social sciences
• 838 staff members – 470 FTE
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Flemish qualification structure• Implementation of EQF• Qualifications: set of competences that lead to
legal certificate• Education• EVC
• Qualifications: base for LLL• Importance of e-learning
• Level 5, 6, 7 and 8
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E-learning in practice:• Since 2006: distance education trails• Still trial and error; first technology, then pedagogy • Initiatives to cooperate with each other & with open university
• Design courses together <> Coaching students in each individual institution
• For whom?• Everybody, but succes rates increase:
• EVC’s (earlier adopted competences)• EVK’s (earlier adopted competences)
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Issues concerning e-learning• Succes rates low (students)• Social aspects?• Activities? Course material?• Combination of work, social life, family,
study…• ?
• Teachers need to adjust as well• TPACK-model…
• Need for (more) agreements between different education programs • from 1 level to another• from 1 program to another
• Technology is not the answer to everything• Don’t use it just to use it…
It must “WORK”; research must show the assets
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Good Practice 1
• Peer assessment tool in ELO• Dokeos Chamilo
Good Practice 2
• Twitter as Audience Response System
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Good Practice 3
• Weblectures• Skype, BigBlueButton, LYNC
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Questions?