E-learning methodology for teachers

TC01 - eLearning concepts

This module will help teachers to understand and apply the basic concepts of technology based teaching/learning (the e-learning state of the art, the e-learning trends). They will be able to navigate, collaborate and hold discussions in the e-learning environment. They will be able to describe the main features of online learning management systems, the existing standards and will be able to select the appropriate LMS for achieve their pedagogical aims. They will be able describe the elements of IPR issues of e-learning developments. They will be able to analyze the needs of their students (Net Generation) and synthesize new knowledge in evaluating their present pedagogical methods and the pedagogical programme of their schools. They will be able to identify and categorize Web 2.0 tools, and to explore their pedagogical potential.

·          Conceptions and history

·          E-learning solutions, standards and trends

·          Learning Management Systems

·          Educational Multimedia

·          Teachers challenged by the Net Generation

·          Web 2.0 tools – panorama

·          New roles of Teachers
 

TC02 – Networked learning

An active knowledge exchange of the net generation takes place on the Internet in several networks. The main objective of the module is the systematic use of this potential in the education. The module gives an introduction to the network theory and to the connectivism as a learning theory. The module introduces in use of interactive 2.0 tools in the networks. In this module the teachers will explore the ways of collaborative network learning, of collaborative knowledge building and of educational knowledge management. They will create e-portfolios, they will learn how to use e-portfolios and how to organize the learning into network.

·          Introduction in the main ideas

·          E-portfolios in network learning

·          Social networks in education

·          Educational use of social games

·          Educational use of blogs

·          Social bookmarking
 

TC03 – Educational use of ICT tools

In this module the participants will get acquainted with the planning of an e-learning curriculum, how to plan and document the steps of creating an interactive multimedia. They will learn what a synopsis and storyboard mean and how to prepare them. At the end of the module the participants will be able to create or collect e-learning objects to a special part of their subject, they will plan an e-learning event based on these e-learning objects.

·          Designing eLearning curriculum/event by using synopsis and storyboard

·          Media elements: features, specification

·          Ergonomic aspects (Text, Image, Audio Video, Animation)

·          Create and edit media elements using applications

·          E-learning material: integration of the elements, publishing online
 

TC04 – E-learning events in Moodle

The aim of the module is to prepare the participants to work in an open source learning environment (LMS). It gives detailed, practice-oriented demonstration of the learner-side and teacher-side activities, and gives an introduction how to administer in the environment. The participants will be prepared, how to manage users, how to create courses, how to integrate e-learning content and activities. They will be able to design, create their own course, to publish tasks and tests for students, to supervise the learning event, generate collaboration and communication, and use methods to assess the learners’ activities. They will and evaluate it against the pedagogical aims.

 

·          Design e-learning event

·          Create Moodle courses

·          Adding resources (Text, Web page, Link, etc.)

·          Adding activities (Task, Chat, Blog, Forum, etc.)

·          Roles in Moodle

·          Management of users' account

·          Assessment tools, learners' records

·          Evaluation tools
 

TC05 – Sharing Open Learning Objects

This module will help the participants to understand the “open” philosophy/model which has been successfully adopted in the field of software development; to identify the state of the art concerning Learning Objects (LOs), LOs standards and LOs repositories; to describe the features of a specific model for learning object, called openLO; to discover the opportunities, for schools and teachers, of a sharing/co-operative approach in LOs production.

·          Using eLearning to enhance teaching and learning in schools: the learning materials, a critical point,

·          Reusability, adaptability, interoperability: the Learning Object model and the SCORM and LOM standards.

·          The “open” model: free/opensource software and open content. The copyleft licences.

·          The openLO model: technical, pedagogical and legal aspects.

·          Learning Object Repositories: features and characteristics of the principal digital repositories.

·          The freeLOms: an environment where to share and produce LOs in a co-operative way.