Experience in using eLearning technologies in the teaching process

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Experience in using eLearning technologies in the
teaching process

• Dragan Jankovic
• Faculty of Electronic Engineering,
• University of Niš, Serbia

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Outlines
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• eLearning ???
• Internet courses
• Course portals
• Tools - eTools
• TMP portal
• Student projects organization - overview
• Future plans

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eLearning???
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• eLearning definition
• Distance learning - definition
• Life long learning - definition
• mLearning - definition
• Teleteaching - definition
• eEducation definition
• Computer based training - definition

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Computer supported learning / based
Goal / goals ???
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Internet courses
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• 3 years ago
• Elective courses (9th semester)
• Only one of three Internet courses
• Internet courses
• Advanced techniques in Image processing
• Introduction to Fuzzy logic
• Advanced techniques in Logic design

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A picture is worth a thousand words
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Internet courses - summary
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• About 30 of 9th semester students choose
  internet courses
• Final results average mark about 9
• Students fill questionnaire at the end of course
• Some of students need extra consultations,
  material, exercises, etc.
• Blended eLearning is better choice

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Course portals
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• The most courses at Department of Computer
  Science
• Some of courses at the other departments
• Contents usually the same
• The form of portals - quite different
• CS Department LMS Moodle
• LMS Knowledge Presenter

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Equipments
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• tCube generation of multimedia materials
• Smart board
• Videoconferencing system
• Sony
• Audio system
• Projectors

Example of material produced by t-Cube system
2004-04-24-11-22-21.rm
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e-Tools
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• Tools are used for demonstration in teaching
  process, labs, home works, etc
• Some of them are commercial products, open source
  solutions, etc.
• A lot of them are our tools developed with the
  aim to help a students
• A number of student projects and diploma works as
  a result have some teaching tools

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Mixing tool (automatic control)
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SimArch
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TMP course
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Students should

• make a team
• may propose some project (teachers also give a
  list of projects)
• apply for some project (competition process,
  introduce themselves, CVs, knowledge, experience,
  proposal for project plan, etc )
• for allowed project to prepare documentation
  according to the RUP methodology C\Documents and
  Settings\All Users\Desktop\NIOnet.lnk
• Vision of system
• Use-case specification
• Project architecture
• Detailed system project
• Project plan
• Testing plan
• Testing report
• User manual
• Installation guide
• Release notes
• etc.
• make a program
• submit the hard copy of documentation / upload
  electronic version
• submit Floppy, CD or DVD ready for automatic
  installation
• software must have online Help, nice envelope,
  etc

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RUP methodology helper
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TMP Portal
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• Users students and teachers
• Functionalities
• Team generation
• Project competition
• Applications overview
• Upload download
• Messaging system
• Portal administration

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Activity diagram of simplified user-portal
interaction
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Results???

• Software - some of them at commercial product
  level
• Often Diploma thesis 1
• ..\..\Prodekan\Prezentacije\elfakFlashFinal\Elektr
  onskiFakultet.exe

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Further work
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• TMP portal is also the student project
• Deficiencies
• Time table for documentation upload
• There is no document management system with CVS
• There is no project examples on TMP portal
• Future work
• Redesign of TMP portal
• Collection of all finished projects (task
  description, team description, documentation,
  demo, source, )
• Include questionaries
• etc.

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Future work in eEducation direction
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• The more intensive work on development of a new
  eLearning courses
• Unification of all courses and portals through
  unique Moodle application
• All e-contents must be according to the SCORM
  standard
• Collaboration with other faculties in Nis through
  University eLarning center and with other
  universities
• Center for permanent education (eLearning,
  distance learning and Life long learning)

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Answer
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What is our goal?
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Teaching process
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goal

• 21 century
• 21 century

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Thank you for your attention!