Web-based Cooperative Teacher Education in Information and Communication Technology The Project eL3 eLearning and eTeaching in Teacher Pre-and In-Service.

Web-based Cooperative Teacher Educationin Information and Communication Technology

The Project eL3

eLearning and eTeaching in Teacher Pre-and In-Service Education

Peter GornyUniversity of Oldenburg - Laboratory for Multimedia-Supported TeachingD-26111 Oldenburg [email protected] www-cg-hci.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de

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Approximately 75 % of all teachers in Germany (> 700,000) do not use a computer for teaching or preparation of teaching material.

Only 5 % use computers in the classroom.

Only 2 % use the internet in the classroom.

(Estimated by Federal educational administrations, 2000)

The Federal organization of the school system leads to a great diversity – and little influence for the Ferderal government.

But singular Federally funded projects might help a little .....

eL3

The present situation

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The objectives

Development of a system of distance education courses

for teacher education • pre-service = teacher students• in-service = professional teachers

for all school subjects

for all school types• general schools• special schools• vocational schools

For all school levels• Primary (grades 1 - 4 — age: 6 - 10 yrs.)

• Lower Secondary (grades 5 - 10 — age: 11 - 16 yrs.)

• Upper Secondary (grades 11 - 13 — age: 17 - 19 yrs)

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The background of the project partners

The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research because of the experiences preliminary projects in the consortium :

Erlangen:MENON — Multimedia Educational NetworkMESO — Multimedia Educational Software ObservatoryVirtuelle Hochschule Bayern

Oldenburg:LIF — Lehrerweiterbildung im Fernstudium — Informatische GrundbildungPLUTO — Project to Link Universities and Training Organisations in an

European Teacher Training Network

MuSIK — Medien-unterstütztes Studium der InformatikDozentenweiterbildung Multimedia in der LehreRION — Rechtsinformatik onlineINVITE — Intuitive Mensch-Technik-Interaktion, Teilprojekt ZIB —

Zugang zum Internet für Blinde

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The pedagogical concept• Awareness of New Media („media competence“)

• Learning by Doing: Direct application of New Media in each school subject

• Technical skills are not presented separately and in advance, but in direct context with classroom content (method: special web-based training modules for those who lack some special skills)

• The web-based material has to be completed with other material to be retrieved from the internet or other sources

• One task for to be solved cooperately in each group at the end of each content unit.

(Self-organized, open, active learning)

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The methodological concept (1)

A hybrid approach to distance education:

• Web-based learning material – hypertext-based, highly interactive with embedded applets (simulations / animations)

• Direct email contact to the lecturer

• Personal tutorial contact in small groups (max. 5 persons – preferably in one school district – with regular F2F-meetings)

• Discussion forum for each group and for each course

• Chatroom for each group

• Database with glossary, bibliography, expert addresses etc.

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The methodological concept (2) — Support functionscommunication

CooperationCoodination

Virtual Bulletin Boards

Hypertextsystems

Editoren forgroups

E-Mail

WorkflowManagement-Tools

Source:Stefanie Teufel1995

Video-Conference

Chat

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The methodological concept (3)

F2F-group work is an important component of the courses:• discussions in the plenum

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The methodological concept (4)

F2F-group work is an important component of the courses:• working in small groups on assignments

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The technical basis

The course material is embedded in the learning platform Hyperwave-Learning Suite which offers the necessary funcionality, especially also the groupware functions.

The course material is developed by „content authors“ who use the scripting language LML (Logical Markup Language), developed in Oldenburg on the basis of XML.

The fast Internet access is provided by the universities Erlangen and Oldenburg and by the regional school networks.

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The content (1)

The learning material contains examples of direct applications

of ICT in the various schools, specialized for each school

subject.

A given content is analyzed, methodological requirements are

derived and an appropriate medium / method is derived and

transferred into a technical form.

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The content (2)

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The content (3)

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The practical realization

With a staff of 11 full-time developers

and additionally 15 teachers on a part-time basis

the material will be developed within 2,5 years.

the first courses will start in Spring 2002, each with approx. 30 participants (test phase)

the completed course system will go public in Spring 2003 and will give access for approx. 30,000 teachers within two years.

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The eL3 project consortium

Universität Erlangen — FIM Psychologie — Dr. Walter Kugemann

Universität Oldenburg — Mediendidaktische Arbeitsstelle und Lernwerkstatt für multimediales Lehren im Didaktischen Zentrum — Prof. Dr. Peter Gorny und Prof. Dr. Hilke Günther-Arndt

and many co-workers .....