Transcript Distance Learning

Distance teaching and learning
in elementary and secondary
schools in Slovenia
Viljenka Šavli, National Education Institute Slovenia,
Elementary School Solkan
Borut Čampelj, National Education Institute Slovenija,
Computer Literacy (Ro programme)
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Inroduction
Computer Literacy programme
Equipment
• each school has free access to the Internet
• 1/3 of them have leased line or ISDN (router)
• each school has at least 5 computers, average 16
students/computer
Educational Legislation
• doesn’t include distance learning for elementary
and secondary schools yet
• but makes teaching and learning at home possible
(here we can imbed our distance learning)
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Distance Learning - starting point
• Australia, Island… traditional DL and ODL
• Slovenia: new technologies, new initiatives,
teachers’ research, Soros activities
• established new projects - DL:
– to acquire foreign experiences
– to apply our own knowledge and considering
specific educational situations in Slovene
schools
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Possible uses of DL in Slovenia
1. Life-long education
2. Distance learning for schools
• basic lessons - illness, special needs, absences, travelling,
living abroad (guidelines, instructions, homeworks
exercises and tests)
• makeup lessons - unsatisfactory performance, learning
difficulties, (additional explanations, easier exercises)
• additional lessons - higher level off knowledge (links to
certain web sites with supplementary exercises and
additional explanations)
3. Better co-operation among teachers and experts
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Project Distance Learning - preparing phase
• 1997 - 1998
• teacher training - technical aspect and some
didactical aspects: foreign (Island, the USA…)
and Slovenian experts
• preparing didactical materials (web pages)
• testing - groups of students (schools)
• testing new equipment (chat, videconference)
• collaboration with university - some technical
support
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Project Distance Learning testing phase
• 1998 - 1999 ...
• useful web pages - more possibilities
• teacher training (important didactical
view)
• testing DL with certain students - real
distance learning (two children sailing
around the world, children with parents
abroad in Brussels, children with special
needs at school,DISTANCE
at home
and
in
hospital)
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Distance learning contributes new
teaching techniques, strategies and
good organisation of work.
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Organisation of work
Content part
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Technical part
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Good communication and team work is
essential for successful distance learning
a student
teacher
technical
support
parents
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Student’s autonomy and diligence is
emphasized and exposed in distance
learning
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Project plan
• The use of materials offered by internet and creating
new educational web sites
• research distance teaching techniques by using on-line
technology
• prepare possible mechanisms for evaluation of
knowledge in DL
• stimulate computer based co-operative work and video
based lessons
• teacher training
• become part of distance learning centres
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Some latest examples of DL web pages:
• English, grades 5, 6, 7, 8, elementary school
• grade 3 (closed system)
• grade 4 (science)
• Slovene (grade 7)
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Vision
• One or more virtual schools
– organised as a normal school (headmasters,
teachers...)
– on-line teaching and assessing (real distance
learning)
• on-line teacher training
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Schoolbook publishers and multimedia
companies - sodelovanje
• Projects for preparing software and interactive web
pages
– publishers provide technical support
– publishers find experts (teachers, supervisors and other
experts...) who provide content
• taking part in preparing teacher training seminars
(stressed the use of it teaching and learning)
• to take an active part in preparing materials (didactic
handbooks…)
• promotion
• finance (cover all the expenses - agreement with all schools)
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Technical support
• Enterprises provide platform that operates on
more operating systems
• they manufacture different tools for using online voice and picture
• the use of video
• the use of videoconferences
• tools (simple) for interactive exercises
• different electronic workbooks and books
• electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias
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