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Supporting Educators in Technology Enhanced Teaching

Supporting Educators in Technology Enhanced Teaching. Sandra Kučina Softić University of Zagreb University Computing Centre, Croatia. Online Educa, Berlin November 28-30, 2012. Questions?. Do educators need support in use of ICT in teaching? Why do they need support?

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Supporting Educators in Technology Enhanced Teaching

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  1. SupportingEducatorsinTechnologyEnhancedTeaching Sandra Kučina Softić Universityof Zagreb UniversityComputing Centre, Croatia Online Educa, Berlin November 28-30, 2012

  2. Questions? • Do educators need support in use of ICT in teaching? • Why do they need support? • What kind of support do they need?

  3. Workshop in May 2012, Zagreb

  4. Why use ICT in teaching? • TO MAKE BETTER TEACHING • deeper/wider knowledge • better understanding • happier students • happier teachers BETTER TEACHING is about ... METHODOLOGY not about technology

  5. All teachers are not the same • they need different kind of support

  6. Innovators • pioneers, explorers, inventors..., lone rangers • first to invent • they do everything alone • test on themselves • brave people • they are unstoppable • they don’t give up easily • difficult to adjust to the routine • dreamers • essential for change • important communication • What they need • “legalisation “of their work • resources • education • recognition

  7. Early Adopters • respectable people, entrepeneurs, opinion leaders, promotors... • try out new ideas but in careful way • want to be amont first • recognize chance and application • practical • proactive • potential leaders • What they need • example from pioneers • instructions • resources • education • recognition • visibility of their work

  8. Early Majority • well intended, followers... • thoughful people, careful but accepting • change more quickly than the average • recognize and understand novelties • need to be lead • predominantly extrinsically motivated • need positive motivation • threat or punishment discourages them • What they need • positive motivation • examples • instructions • resources • education • support • leadership • control • award

  9. Late Majority • skeptic people, suspicious, disinterested... • will use new ideas or products only • when the majority is using it • do not understand and need interpretation • have to be controlled • need push and punishment • very extrinsically motivated • What they need • “negative” motivation • examples • instructions • resources • education • support • management • control • punishment

  10. Leggards • traditionalists, diehards, cynics, unbelievers... • make decisions based on past experience • caring for the “old ways” • critical towards new ideas • against any change • don’t count they will ever change • leave them be • keep them as free “consultants”

  11. Workshop in May 2012, Zagreb

  12. What kind of support do the need? political organizational methodological technological

  13. Political support strategy policy regulatory framework budget culture

  14. Organizational support examples instructions support visibility of results

  15. Methodological support creating courses creating materials lecturing tutoring, mentoring managing group work

  16. Technological support infrastructure tools education support

  17. University of Zagreb • traditional, research oriented university • founded 1669 by Leopold I Hapsburg • the oldest Croatian and South-East European university • 33 schools/faculties • 56.000 students and 7.500 teaching staff • ICT infrastructure (beginning and advanced usage) • e-learning • from 90’: individual attempts – “lone rangers” • 2007: systematically • University Committee for E-learning • E-learning Award • E-learning Day • E-learning Centre • Office for E-learning

  18. E-learning Centre • central point for support to institutions, teachers and students in implementation of e-learning • basic objectives • support to teachers and students, teams and groups for e-learning at schools • providing reliable and generally accessible e-learning platform • to establish and support the university network of people supporting, using or promoting e-learning • to promote and foster implementation of e-learning at the University of Zagreb

  19. Our users teachers e-learning representatives& teamsat local level • teachers – majority • listening their needs and ideas • try to always say yes • working with them • different types of users- different approaches • students • need occasional support • need proper introduction to e-learning at the beggining of studies • institutions, local e-learning teams • advice and guidance on the implementation process students institutions (management)

  20. E-learning Centre University Computing Centre University of Zagreb www.srce.unizg.hr/elc sskucina@srce.hr

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