learning scenarios

Projects

Web 2.0. suported Higher Education Institutional Learning Scenarios for Collaborative Learning

06 January 2012

Project WebWise brings together a range of European higher education institutions (from Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece and Great Britain) active in the field of public health education as well as experts for innovating e-learning, to analyze, experiment and develop innovative learning scenarios within public health education.

The general objective of WebWise is to support the improvement, the quality, the efficiency and the accessibility of Higher Education using the structure of the Bologna process and the innovative methodological collaborative Web 2.0. learning tools.

 

Within this objective, the project will aim to:

  1. Identify innovative learning scenarios and learning designs within public health or general health education.
  2. Suggest and test a number of innovations to improve the learning process within the scenarios
  3. Identify and elaborate the key improvements from the pilots.
  4. Recommend how such improvements may be transferred in public health education and to other areas of Higher Education.
  5. Disseminate recommendations to competent authorities on a national and European level.

 

TARGET GROUPS

  • Regulatory bodies
  • Managers
  • Deliverers
  • Users

in public health and public health related study programmes.

                                             

OUTCOMES

  • Recommendations for optimizing learning scenarios
  • Best practices database
change in higher education, Web 2.0, learning scenarios, Learning Design
Articles

Using patterns to design technology-enhanced learning scenarios

30 November 2011

Research on designing for learning is a field that has concentrated a lot of efforts in the context of technology-enhanced settings. This scenario has demonstrated the need to represent learning scenarios using a more formal perspective.

This paper reviews some representation mechanisms which enable the systematic design of learning issues in technological settings, and proposes an approach that applies pattern notations in an effort to better understand and prepare for different learning context.

 

A case study is also described to show the application of these scenarios in a specific technology-enhanced setting for teaching computing curricula. This application is based on the use of digital ink technologies and demonstrates how patterns may be able to mediate between pedagogical and technical issues.

Learning Design, governance of technology, learning scenarios
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Cloud computing in education

29 September 2011

This policy brief discusses the phenomenon which has become known as cloud computing, analyzing the benefits and risks for educational institutions and examining some of the legal and contractual issues. It provides guidelines for the selection on and deployment of cloud services and suggests some policy implications and future scenarios for their use in education.

Cloud Computing, policy-making, learning scenarios
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campuseducation

29 July 2011

Wir möchten Lehrszenarien aus dem Hochschulalltag sichtbar machen und damit zum Verständnis von Vor- und Nachteilen des E-Learning beitragen. Dazu interviewen wir Dozenten aus ganz Niedersachsen. Sie berichten von ihrem persönlichem E-Learning-Einsatz, der selten geradlinig verläuft, sondern durch ein Justieren der eigenen Lehrstrategie gekennzeichnet ist. Wir hoffen, Ihnen damit weitere Einblicke und Ideen für die eigene Lehre an die Hand zu geben.

higher education, learning scenarios, Research
Articles

ConnectLearning – an answer for the new challenges?

28 February 2010
The latest reports seem to announce a new world of learning, in which students are connected through technology and internet. The increasing influence of the world wide web has led to fast-paced knowledge cycles and to New Millennium Learners, who are supposed to have different learning styles. However, in this article we don’t approach today’s youth as some kind of alien who learn in a totally different mode: they just incorporate new ways to access information and to socialize, and hence to the learning process.
While we agree that learning scenarios are changing their form and inner organisation through technologies, it is questionable if a new concept of learning is emerging. This article is thus an attempt to analyse whether the undoubtedly new social challenges are stimulating the demand for a new form of learning and if the existing theories are still applicable to today’s learning realities. Therefore, we overview social changes, analyse the concept of eLearning 2.0 and outline how existing theoretical approaches capture the reality of learning. A special emphasis has been put on analysing the nature of new scenarios, such as a special type of networked learning (ConnectLearning), based on Connectivism and Constructivism and situated learning approaches.

We conclude that change has to take place in the learning scenarios, as the required theoretical foundation has been in place and under discussion for the last two decades. Networked learning is not about a new paradigm or a fundamentally new model of learning, it rather describes how a consolidated concept (based on innovative ideas and building blocks of existing learning theories) can help to satisfy the demand for “new” learning scenarios which are self-organised, learner-oriented, situational, emotional, social and communicative.
networks, learning scenarios, eLearning programme, connectivism, constructivism