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TU Graz was founded by Archduke John of Austria in 1811
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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education An Integral Approach
Teaching and Learning Service System at Graz University of Technology – Austria
Walther Nagler
Martin Ebner
Isidor Kamrat
Nikolai Scerbakov
Behnam Taraghi
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Kangaroos to be seen at the Vienna Zoo
Graz
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Thal near Graz
This is were Schwarzenegger is from …
Inner city of Graz
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Campus of TU Grazat Inner City of Graz
• 200.000 m² floor space (as of Jan. 2009)
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• 8th largest university in Austria
• Second largest university in Graz
• 11.500 students total (winter term 2009)
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Organigram of TU Graz
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Dept. Social Learning Central E-Learning Service by CIS since 2006
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Reach millions of people within minutes …
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„Our students have changed radically. Today‘s students are no longer the people our educational
system was designed to teach.“Mark Prenksy 2001
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Net-Generation Study among Freshmen
• Study covers freshmen to TU Graz from 2007 to 2009
• Survey took place during annual “Welcome Days”
total n = 2156; (2007 n = 578, 2008 n = 821, 2009 n = 757)
• Topics: Technological equipment
Digital communicationWeb2.0 activities in general
Web2.0 activities towards E-Learning2.0
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Equipment
Comparison of Devices
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Comparison of Communicational Behaviour
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Communication Behavior
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Use of Web2.0 in Details
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Other Microblogs
Locr
Other Virtual Realities
delicious
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RSS
Twitter
Other MediaSharing
Flickr
YouTube
Second Life
Videopods
Audiopods
Other Communities
Facebook
Xing
StudiVz
Social Bookmarking
Other Wikis
Wikipedia
MySpace
Weblogs
Target of Web2.0 Usage in 2009
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TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System
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TUGraz.online by CIS since 1998
• Single Sign-On via Shibboleth
• 1 central Database (ORACLE) – over 600 tables
• Individual Personal Access with Distinct Authorizations
• 28 Austrian Universities and TU Munich (Germany)
• Inquiry of the teaching regarding current, past or future academic years
• Individual tasks for employees using personal digital business card
• Individual tasks for students using personal digital business card
• Individual tasks for organisation units
• Tasks for service purposes
• Tasks for central administration and management with a selective interface to the SAP system used for staff, inventory and room tasks
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TUGraz.online Concept
• Data: 600 tables / 6 main classes• People
• Organisation
• Teaching
• Research
• Rooms
• Inventory
• Programs: enabling access to data
• Roles: determine the preconditions of programs
• Functions: connect program‘s role with identified user
• Identified User: a physical member of TU Graz
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• Advantages
• Integration into e-Learning concept of TU Graz
• User roles and rights
• Basic areas and possibilities
• Useful and uncommon gadgets
• Examples
TU Graz TeachCenter WBTMaster by IICMInstitute for Information Systems and Computer Media of TU Graz
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• One center for online teaching / learning
• Single sing-on
• High degree of individualization
• Adjustment on demand
• Best performance
• Automated backup
Advantages of TUGTC
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• Connected to TUGraz.online (LDAP) single sign-on, user import and import of course information
• Login possibilities• Homepage: http://tugtc.tugraz.at
• Personal Desktop
• Tutors Room
• TUGonline user card
• TUGonline course card
• Mobile
• As a member of TU Graz (with TUGraz.online access data)
• As an external Person (with special access data)
• RSS course feed
Integrated into E-Learning Concept
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• Administrator• Create and manage courses and their applications
• Monitoring server and server traffic
• All teacher and user rights
• Teacher / Tutor / Author• Import users of course
• Responsible for content
• Edit tests and polls
• Moderate communication applications
• Edit course settings (fill in or remove applications)
• View and work with course-statistics
• All user rights
• User / Student• Edit forum, faqs, personal upload area, annotations,
microblogging with different devices, …
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User Roles and Rights
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• Announcement / Blackboard
• Course administration data
• Content and Upload area
• Learning and teaching adds
• Forum, FAQs, Chat, Blog for several applications
• User list
• Information and goodies column right sided
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Basic Areas and Possibilities for Teachers
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• RSS feed of course and external sources
• Course statistics and “file watching”
• File upload by drag & drop
• Course blog & “blog it”-button
• Evaluations & plagiarism check
• Time planer
• … more than 200 several and special apps
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Useful and Uncommon Gadgets
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Example: Announcements
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Example: Administration Data
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Example: Main Content Area
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• Virtual rooms (quiz, projects, lockers, laboratories, meetings, …)• Discussion forums• Applications (polls, evaluations, plagiarism, …)• Special tools (graphic chat, group appointments, …)
Example: Teaching and Learning Adds
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Example: User List and Administration
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Example: Information and Goodies Column
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Example: ABC-E-Books within TUGTC
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Using different channels:• Weblog on TUGTC• PDA & Mobile phone• eMail
Example: Interactions within E-BooksMicroblogging and Annotations
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Example: Diary – Individualized Study History
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TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Weblog
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TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Help
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TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Search
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E-Books on TU Graz
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ABC-E-Books within TUGTC
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Using different channels:• Weblog on TUGTC• PDA & Mobile phone• eMail
Interactions within E-BooksMicroblogging and Annotations
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• Over 900h of podcasts since 2007
• Over 60 different lectures recorded
• Full service including • Instructions and settings before
• Support during lessons
• Postprocessing and publishing
• Which way can be chosen? • Recording of lectures (screen & voice & video)
• Streaming of lectures (screen & voice & video)
• Short recordings (for introductions, explanations)
• Professional Videos for TUGraz on iTunes U
• Informal recordings & streaming using Web2.0 platforms (Qik, AudioBoo …)
Podcasting Services
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Podcasting Services
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Example: Podcasting
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Example: Streaming embedded in TUGTC
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TUGraz on iTunes U since autumn 2009
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TUGraz on iTunes U since autumn 2009
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TU Graz M-Learning
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TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System
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PLE TU Graz – TU Graz Personal Learning Environment
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SOCIAL LEARNING
Computer and Information ServicesGraz University of Technology
Walther Nagler, Martin Ebnerhttp://elearning.tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
http://twitter.com/sociallearning
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. . . WE‘‘LL BE BACK
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