First year of experience with the Bologna process

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First year of experience with the Bologna
process

• Damir KalpicFaculty of Electrical Engineering
  and ComputingUniversity of ZagrebUnska 3, 10000
  Zagreb, Croatiadamir.kalpic_at_fer.hr

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Educational load for lecturers (1)

• Preparation of new curriculum (2 years)
• Deployment in September 2005
• 1st year (700 300 students)
• Dramatically increased educational workload for
  the Faculty staff
• Example
• PreBologna Algorithms and Data Structures
• 700 students, 3 groups 2h (Kalpic alone)
• 700 students, 6 groups 2h (3 assistants)
• 2 interim examinations
• 4 terms/student for final written examinations
  (33 of students)
• oral examinations (66 of students)

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Educational load for lecturers (2)

• PostBologna Algorithms and Data Structures
• 850 students, 10 groups 4h (10 lecturers 8
  assistants)
• 12 tests/homework
• 3 on-line tests
• 3 automatically evaluated homework problems
• 2 interim written examinations
• final examination (11)

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Educational load for students

• PreBologna
• 30 h/week direct education
• learning at the time of examinations
• PostBologna
• 20 h/week direct education
• learning in parallel to lectures

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Results

• 75 students have passed examinations per
  course
• Students survey mostly favourable
• Lecturers
• partly (silently) against
• (slight) majority in favour

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AhyCo - Starting menu
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Discussion in Forum
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A reported problem
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Final students enquiry
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Final examination results
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Distribution of results in a poor group
(repeaters)
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Distribution of results in a good group
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Overview of results
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Other AhyCo features

• Examinations
• Download of individualised homework
• Upload of homework
• Automatic evaluation of homework
• Multimedia
• Distant learning yet to be fully used

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Financing of higher education in Croatia

• Lump sum from Ministry to University
• According to
• existing staff
• tradition
• lobbying pressures
• salaries depend only on formal position
• University completely unprepared
• Unsuccessful election of new Rector in Zagreb
  (twice)

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Criteria for promotion

• Exaggerated role of scientometrics
• Result
• investigations in irrelevance
• scientific novices approved in irrelevant fields
• salaries regardless to the labour market
• Hope
• increased role of relevance?
• correlation between salary and work?