Transcript IUG Emerging Web Technology in Education

Dr. Ayman Abu Samra
[email protected]
Hanan M. Abed
[email protected]
Haneen T. Matar
[email protected]
Somaya I. Duhair
[email protected]
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1 • Abstract
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• Introduction
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• Other works
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• What is Web 2.0?
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• What is E-learning 2.0?
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• E-learning Systems in IUG
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• Recommendations
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Many universities adopted web 2 technology in
education.
 Islamic University of Gaza highly exploits web 2 in
its applications.
 In our paper we toke the Moodle and blogs as two
application used by IUG.
 We made a survey to asses the utilization of these
two systems and finally suggest some
recommendations.
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The trend toward conversion from traditional
classroom to online courses follows the shift of
learning theories.
 The dominant trend in most universities
nowadays is to increases the fraction of e-learning
in the overall learning process.
 To achieve this goal the new offered services
require using more advance technologies and
principles.
 Web 2.0 is one of the technologies that provide a
good support to e-learning.
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One research evaluate nine learning management
systems (LMS).
 The LMS programs are WebCT, BlackBoard, Jones E-education,
Educator, Angel, .LRN; McGraw Hill Pageout, moodle, and eCollege AU.
 As a result of the comparison the best LMS was Web CT,
although it is not free.
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Research framework presented in another paper is
supported by the data collected through user surveys,
experiments performed with incorporated technologies
and student performances in a web programming
course.
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The term Web 2.0 was used for the first time on
a conference in Silicon Valley that was held at
the end of 2004.
 Web2.0 the second phase in the web’s evolution.
 Web2.0 harnesses the web in a more interactive
and collaborative manner.
 A Web 2.0 site gives its users the free choice to
interact or collaborate with each other in a social
media dialogue as creators of user generated
content in a virtual community.
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E-learning has been around for fifteen years or so.
It is defined as all forms of electronic supported
learning and teaching.
 E-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a
whole and it's changing to a degree significant
enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0 .
 The dominant learning technology employed today
is a type of system that organizes and delivers
online courses.
 The learning management system takes learning
content and organizes it in a standard way
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IUG is one of the Palestinian universities that try to
use the best technologies in e-learning.
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They always search about the best system for
instructors and students.
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Nowadays IUG rely on moodle and blogs systems to
support the best services in the learning.
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Moodle is a software package for producing
Internet-based courses and web sites.
Moodle is provided freely as open source software.
The word moodle was originally an acronym for
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment.
Moodle can be installed on any computer that can
run PHP, and can support an SQL type database.
It can be run on Windows and Mac operating
systems and many flavors of linux.
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Moodle features:
 Access to all lesson assignments can be made time or
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password restricted.
keeps automatic log reports of each student work.
The instructor can set deadlines or timeframes when
assignments must be completed.
Students can look up their grades themselves.
Students can look up the assignments on a calendar.
Moodle allows for the integration of a wide range of
resources.
Moodle allows for a wide range of assessment
strategies.
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Moodle is the IUG choice for E-learning since 2005.
IUG offers many courses on it for the various
colleges.
 IUG activate some of moodle services like forums,
wiki, calendar, exams and quizzes and upload files
by students and instructors.
 Instructors can enable or disable any service
according to their courses’ needs.
 The majority of moodle users are from Education
and IT faculties.
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Faculty
Cor. No.
Inst. No.
St.%
Medicine
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5
2%
Engineering
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10.7%
IT
30
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14.5%
Nursing
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1
0.5%
Science
3
4
2.8%
Commerce
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7
5.8%
Education
26
25
44.7%
Arts
4
5
11.5%
Sharea& Law
3
5
1.5%
UsoulEldeen
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4
2%
High education
35
-
4%
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We try to study the Moodle services that used
by instructors in IUG.
The most services are not utilized correctly.
The most used service is upload files by
instructors and students.
About 20% of instructors use Moodle quizzes
and exams. While only 5% of instructors use
wiki in their courses.
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Blogs are an easy way to disseminate information to
both colleagues and students.
 Blogs in the classroom serve a valuable purpose, to
allow students to carry out critical and productive
dialogues about the course content and skills.
 Instructors use blogs as a way to communicate and
enhance classroom instruction among their
students.
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The ability for both the instructor and student
to edit content allows for study to take place
outside the classroom environment.
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Students can access information from home, or
from any computer that is connected to the
Internet.
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In 2010, the Islamic university of Gaza provided the
ability for her employees to use blogs.
They used wordpress for deploying and publishing the
blogs. Some instructors are familiar with blogs before
IUG lunched them.
Most of the instructors that are using blogs entered
their C.V, courses and researches.
They use blogs for the announcement of any news such
as instructor absence or make up lectures or quizzes.
The majority of instructors closed the door for students
to add comments and participate in their blogs
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The survey result for instructors using blogs
indicated that most of them prefer using the blog as
a normal website page.
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Most of them are unaware of blogs capabilities.
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Others don’t want to use it.
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Other instructors reacted very positively to blogs
and made them active in all their courses.
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Studying “Introduction to Computers” course for all
students.
Exploring Moodle by instructors and students.
Increasing the number of courses that offered on
Moodle.
Moodle is a very helpful in crisis situations.
IUG may encourage each department to provide at
least one course which depends totally on Moodle.
IUG may encourage each instructor to provide at
least one course material’s on Moodle.
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Permit students to sing up in the instructor page, so
they can add posts.
 Instructors should use their front page of the Blog to
post announcements, so students can make an RSS
feeding.
 Instructors can provide a desktop snapshot for their
work during the class in a video file; it will help the
students on focusing in class and revise the video at
home.
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Finally we say that every new thing in our life
needs some time to get used to it, and it is
the university responsibility to help the
students in adapting the new technologies.
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Dr.Ayman, Hanan, Haneen and Somaya
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