Thursday, 4 December 2008

Training Teachers to carry out e-learning

Inger-Marie F. Christensen is hosting this session and she works for a organisation which wants to facilate e-learning and its tools.

How do they work at the University in Denmark?

Copyrights is something that always pops up. Therefore they have one person responsible for that.
A lot of teachers think that is too time consuming. They are still looking for the best solution to engage teachers in carryin out e-learning.

How motivating teachers, what competences are needed?

  • By helping the enthousiasts and hopefully they bring more and more teachers online.
  • Sometimes you have to oblige people using several tools.
  • Oblige teachers on an online archive folder.
  • In that way it is easy to uploading it to an LMS.A course on e-moderator is obliged to all teachers.
  • Start with teaching them the basic skills of computing.
  • What kind of learning activities do your students have to undertake? And what activities can you teach online? What do you hope that they do online?
  • Pedagogical approach.
  • e-learning support. A responsible person who can tackle the problems teachers have in creating their courses. Just to avoid that they stop at the first barrier (f.i. what if they forgot their password).
  • Define first what you want to develop. Afterwards the software pops-up.
  • Teaching face-to-face sets the teacher as a leader, while an online course gives other opportunities.
  • Look for easy software, so that teachers don't have problems with that.
  • We have to follow the new way of living, don't stay with "medieval" ways of teaching. In a supermarket workers were obliged to use the barcode system (otherwise they were fired), while in teaching they tend to stay on his 'traditional', well known way.
  • Management needs to be positive about introducing e-courses, otherwise it will not work.
  • Gully Salman model. 5-steps model.

The formal model is below. Enjoy!


Conclusions.

How do we secure motivation and commitment?
We believe that you have to put in the compulsery field.
If they get the chance to teach one course online, they will know what it is like.
The e-course has te be firmly planned.

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