Transcript Encourage and Support University Teachers for Using ICT in

Encourage and Support University Teachers
to Use ICT in Education
Sonja Prišćan, Daliborka Pašić
About us
Reference centers for e-education
• Project managers in CARNet
• CARNet is Croatian Academic and
Research Network
• One of the mission statements is
improvement of higher education
through application of information and
communication technology
• Financed by government to provide
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Internet infrastructure and services for
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academic and scientific community
• All services are free of charge for our
http://www.CARNet.hr
clients
• 1/10 of our annual budget is allocated
for support and education of university
teachers
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About Croatia (.hr)
Reference centers for e-education
Republic of Croatia (HRVATSKA)
• Area: 56,542 sq km
• Population: 4.42 million
• Capital City: Zagreb
• GDP: US$ 43.12 billion
• GDP per capita: US$ 9,800
• Annual Growth: 3.7%
• Member of EU: Candidate
CARNet
• Founded in 1991
• On Internet since 1992
• Today employs 50 people
Adriatic
Sea
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About CARNet network
Reference centers for e-education
CARNet network backbone
LEGEND
Towns with
multiple locations
connected
Single location
155 Mbps ATM
2 Mbps
Adriatic
Sea
• CARNet is a computer
network of the academic
and scientific-research
community
• Member institutions are
from the systems of
science and higher
education
• Today, 199 institutions at
286 locations in 27 towns in
Croatia are connected to
the CARNet network
Dial-up
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Contents
Reference centers for e-education
• Introduction
• Reference centers – early beginning
• About Reference centers – establishing and
maintaining
• Conclusions
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Goals
Reference centers for e-education
• Encourage university teachers to
– produce educational digital materials
– teach students on-line
• Provide technological infrastructure for them
– videoconferencing, network, equipment
• Support them through application of ICT in
teaching by
– education, reference centers, journal, e-learning
academy, teachers club Acadeus, educational
projects
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Reference centers – early beginning
Reference centers for e-education
• Founded after a research was conducted among
university professors in order to find out in which
way and to what extent the use of Internet is feasible
in the current educational system of the Croatian
higher education institutions
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Results of research
Reference centers for e-education
• University teachers want to develop e-education but
need help
• and need their universities’ recognition for
development of educational materials and their
application in teaching
• So, we established reference centers for e-education
in order to provide support and help professors
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What are reference centers?
Reference centers for e-education
WEB SITES which contain relevant information from the
area of e-education:
– Evaluation of Courseware
– Development of Educational Materials
– Selection of Hardware and Software in E-education
– Registration of E-education Projects
– Development of Multimedia Elements and
Their Adaptation to WWW
– Teaching Methods and Communication in
E-education
– Self-assessment and
Summative Assessment in E-education
USER SUPPORT and help through e-mail, phone and
personally
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Establishment proccess
Reference centers for e-education
• Document describing the concept solution for the
whole reference centers system
• Project tasks for seven reference centers
• Collection of tenders among universities
• Choice of seven best proposals
• Contracts – seven projects
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Organization – maintaining (1/2)
Reference centers for e-education
• Altogether nine teams work on reference
centers:
– Seven teams run reference centers
– One team coordinates all activities
– One team provides technical support to other
eight teams
– The size of teams – five members, university
teachers and students
• Monthly meetings of the leaders of all the teams
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Organization – maintaining (2/2)
Reference centers for e-education
• Annual costs of one project – around 15.000 $
• Reference centers are presented on
conferences, seminars and on universities
• Users are very satisfied, however the number
of questions received from the users is still
small
• Statistics of web visits – a few hundred entries
daily
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Conclusions
Reference centers for e-education
• Other activities which will result better application of
ICT in education are following:
– Standards for educational materials
– Repository of educational materials (LO) in Croatian
language
– Procedures and rules for reviewing of LO
– Using ICT in teaching and development of good quality
instructional materials will be encouraged as a part of the
university promotion system
• These activities will also result in increased number
of Reference centers users
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Thank you for your attention!
Reference centers for e-education
Contacts:
[email protected]
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Additional information:
http://www.CARNet.hr
http://www.carnet.hr/RC-obrazovni
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