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Robert Pinter. NETIS test teaching in Hungary NETIS 4th project meeting, London, Middlesex University 04 March 2008. Information Society Research Institute 1111, Hungary, Budapest, Stoczek u. 2-4. St 108. • tel: 06-1 463-2526 • fax: 06-1 463-2547 • web: www.ittk.hu.

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  1. Robert Pinter NETIS test teaching in HungaryNETIS 4th project meeting, London, Middlesex University04 March 2008. Information Society Research Institute 1111, Hungary, Budapest, Stoczek u. 2-4. St 108. • tel: 06-1 463-2526 • fax: 06-1 463-2547 • web: www.ittk.hu

  2. First course in Autumn An experiment to work in traditional class and teaching the whole book for students in sociology.

  3. Administrative information 1. - Semester started at September 2007, ended in January 2008 (withthe exam period). - Participants were students in sociology (3-5th years). - 32 students have started the course two of them left the group in the first weeks, and students have been graded. - Classes were held by Robert Pinter, except the class on technology (held by the author of the chapter, Attila Kincsei), and culture (held by Bence Kollanyi, a PhD student, also an author of the book).

  4. Administrative information 2. - Full semester focused on NETIS, with 13 classes. First class was an introduction to the NETIS project and made known the basic conditions of the course, structure of class, exam etc. - Whole Course book were taught except the last chapter (there was not enough time to finish the book). - Students could have a free copy of the printed Course book in Hungarian, or could use the NETIS Moodle. Approximately half of the students asked for the printed version. Faculty library also received several volumes of the book.

  5. Administrative information 3. - Registration in Moodle was obligatory, but using of Moodle was elective. With these conditions, only one student made comments in the system, students mainly did not use Moodle, or used it only as the source of texts (passive usage). - Students can have a grade based on their class work and presentation. Students without presentation needed to prepare 3 short essays (no longer than one page each ones), based on elective questions of NETIS Moodle. These students used Moodle, but mainly sent the essays in e-mail to the teacher.

  6. Structure of classes 1. - The course was a “classical”, traditional seminar with student presentations (two presentations at each topic, one introduction and one opposition with the critic of the given chapter). Student presentations were mainly recorded in mp3 (only in that cases when students have permitted the recording). Records will be available later. - First two classes were taught by the teacher as an introduction to the course (chapters of Karvalics and Pinter). - After presentations of students there were short teacher comments in each class.

  7. Structure of classes 2. - Conversation took part in the last 30-50 minutes of the classes, based on questions of presenters, teacher and students, ranked by group voting. Memos of classes contain the questions and the number of votes (will be available in Moodle soon). - In some cases (e.g. in topics of e-government and e-learning) group work was organized, students were divided into 4 sub-groups, and had joint work then presentations, joint debate. - Finally, students filled out the same questionnaire at the end of all classes: what was the most exciting/boring, helpful/obstructing, surprising in the class, and they have evaluated the given class with a grade between 1-10 with an explanation.

  8. Opinion on the course 1. - Students mostly liked the course, and regularly visited the classes (more often than usually in other cases). - Bigger part of the class disliked the students introductory presentations, as these presentations served only as summary introductions and did not have added value. But some students stated that they did not read the chapter in advance because these summaries were enough for them. - However students liked the critic presentations in that cases where mates formed independent opinions. - Some students stated that they would have preferred teacher lectures and would have eliminated all students’ presentations.

  9. Opinion on the course 2. - Conversation was an important part for everybody, they liked to participate in debates, hear new arguments and share personal experiences. - But students most enjoyed the group work – however as they noticed, the first case was more exciting than the second one, maybe because it lost its uniqueness. In the next semester we plan to have an entirely e-learning course with students in sociology and then compare the differences between the two methods and groups.

  10. New course in Spring An experiment to work in e-learning focused blended learning and teaching the whole book for students in sociology.

  11. Administrative information 1. - Semester started at February 2008, will be ended in June 2008 (withthe exam period). - Participants are students in sociology (3-5th years). - 18 students have taken the course, but only 9 of them appeared at the first class, and 7 at the second class. - The twoclasses were held by Robert Pinter, and the whole course will be guided also by him. - Whole Course book is planned to be educated in blended learning (personal contacts at the first two classes, once at mid-term, and once at the final class).

  12. Administrative information 2. - Full semester focuses on NETIS. First class (traditional ”offline” class) was an introduction to the NETIS project and made known the basic conditions of the course, structure of class, exam etc. - Students must use the NETIS Moodle, a class-blog (see: http://netiselte.edublogs.org), and participate in a course e-maillist netiselteATgooglegroups.com). Second class was a ”technical helpdesk” to create an account in Moodle, account in Edublogs.

  13. Administrative information 3. - Registration and use of Moodle and class-blogare obligatory. In the first two weeks app. half of the students craeted blogposts (e.g. ”competence portfolio”), filled the tests, and started to make comments on others’ blogposts (active usage). - Students willbe graded based on their regular work in Moodle and class-blog. Students without active participation cannot have a grade.

  14. Structure of ”classes” 1. - The course is a blended learning seminar with student essays, tests in Moodle, and comments-debates on essays. - After reading the materials in Moodle, every students need to fill the test in Moodle. - Then they must choose essay questions from a list on class-blog, and prepare a blogpost from week-to-week. - Students have a debate on essay blogposts, they must comment one topic choosen by the teacher in every week. - Finally, students need to fill the same evaluation questionnaire at the end of all week activities in Moodle (deadline is Tuesday midnight).

  15. Thank you for your attention! Robert Pinter BME-ITTK scientific and strategic director pinter.robert@ittk.hu http://www.ittk.hu http://netisproject.eu Skype: probesz Mobile: +36-30-9996595 BME – Information Society Research Institute (ITTK) 1111, Budapest, Sztoczek u. 2-4 St. building 108. Telephone: +36-1-4632526 Fax: +36-1-4632547

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