eFIT at School IT and e-learning projects in Austria

1. eFIT at School IT and e-learning projects in Austria Christian Dorninger, bm:bwk ERI-SEE Graz, Nov. 2003

2. Austria – a small country * 15% foreign students

3. 5 European benchmarks: 1. Halve the rate of early school leavers (+) 2. Halve the gender imbalance math&science (–) 3. 80% completing secondary education (+…) 4. Halve the low-archiving 15-year-old in math&sc. 5. Part. in lifelong learning at least over 15% (+ -) 6. Education expenditures over 5% of GDP (+ ?) EU- Benchmarks

4. Business recession – starting again (?) Lifetime of knowledge 2-5 years Old qualifications not used, new one not enough employees (60% of jobs of 2010 now unknown !) Keyqualifications <-> professional know-how New IT-qualifications on 4 levels (Basic for users, modest-IT, professional-IT, research..) Forum: http://www.ams.or.at/b-Info IT-Labourmarket

5. VET IN AUSTRIA development ofpersonal skills development of perspectivesof our society development of perspectivesof our economy solid general / technical and vocational education and training

6. VET IN AUSTRIA PROPORTION OF ENROLMENT / GRADE 10 (2001/2002)

7. Analyzing symbols and knowledge management is main production force Virtual economy is more significant Teleworking will be increased knowledge = information + “structure”(H.M.Enzensberger, D.Schwanitz) Knowledge Society

8. elearning with e-Fit Austria 2001-03 e-Learning Learning with Computer / Internet - nonlinear, mediabased, networking E-Learning platforms evaluation of learning – platforms and contentmanagement systems www.virtual-learning.at Community & Services e-blackboards; newsgroups; virtual classrooms; online - courses Content creation Content - pool -> quality assurance -> content - repository

9. “New media in teaching at schools and unis” -> good content like www.planet-et.at, wu@learn, www.bildung.at, http://iol3.uibk.ac.at/iol(Content) Support structure for e-learning projects Approach to reshape informatics studies Private-public partnerships (certificates) Austrian Open Source community eFit-Austria 2001-03

10. What is an e-learning school (e-education)? • Every student (upper secondary) can test e-learning sequences in the next to years • All teachers should get experience with e-learning sequences in their subjects • Teams of teachers work on e-learning programmes (didactics, methods, content) Good school experience in regional networks Steering group of school partners must be established to support content development Cluster schools are working in networks and offer additional qualifications (IT-certificates)

11. “Dreaming of a school” – H.G. Rolff (2002) Learning assignments/colleg model School programme, change management 50% of syllabus made by school community Global budgeting Exchange of good practice; Evaluation-culture House of learning

12. Only concrete pedagogical visions can release a fundamental change process: e-Education (“e-learning-school”) Bilinguality (two languages at school for all) VET close to work-procecces (e.g. business process chains, training firms, engineering) Internationality (projects working, clustering) Inhouse organisation

13. Pick the winners and let them work together: About 50 schools in all provinces Exchange experience in different types Cooperation with unis and companies Reinvent “old” pedagogical concepts (Daltonplan, training firms, industry project) Regional clusters with local coordination E-learning school clusters

14. Change process must be supported: E-learning portal and server structures Learning platforms (LMS, CMS, LCMS,…) e-Content creation and providing Studies to answer questions of e-learning / e-teaching in a scientific way Support structure outside

15. Critical Success factors 1) e-learning school clusters (structure with selforganisation and benchmarking) http://www.schule.at/elc-community http://e-lisa.at/notebook-klassen 2) Content(server) with material (critical mass) “Schulbuchextra”: http://sbx.bildung.at “Mathe-online”: http://www.mathe-online.at

16. Content-Management Metadata-Management und -Repository Access and Authorisation Metadata- und Thesaurus-Recherche Usability-Management Interface Interface Interface Interface Interface Interface Interface Virtuelle Schule Schulbuch-Extra (SbX) Bitmedia (ECDL) Contake Eduthek FUBB eTeaching Content-Provider In realisation In development In conception Must be provided by partners eLearning Content-Cluster Austria: Architecture eLearning Content-Cluster Austria bm:bwk

17. LMS: Tools Chat Messaging Notes Discussion Forums Progress Tracking Search Multilinguality Library, Glossary Statistics Reports ... Rooms Studyroom Courseroom Café Administration Foyer Roles Trainees (->Profiles) Trainers & Tutors Authors Administrators

18. Example for contenthosting FUBBhomepage www.esffubb.at Education-server Votec www.votec.at Learn-platform Blackboard http://193.171.249.213

19. Virtual classroom Class -booking FUBB-TeamPIB Wien Virtual classroom Content LMS-system Blackboard

20. Publishers of e-content material Content-Server Cooperation models at school Individuell preparation of lessons e-Content for all types of schools expenditure General strategy

21. High satisfaction of students with e-learning environment High teacher agreement and abilities NotebookPC-class students are better in organisation of learning They are better problem solvers and texteditors Negative consequences (lack of con-centration, internet manic, worse marks) could not be found Studies of learning in notebook-classes

22. Four Casestudies (tomorrow): Roll out of a basic skills product-ECDL eContent for all – ECDL-LearningCD CISCO-Networking academy E-learning village: school and student-administration Concrete examples of IT-expediture