Progress presentation,

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How to Design, Implement and Evaluatean
E-Learning Project

• Progress presentation,
• Turku January 28th 2009

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• Overall goals
• Create knowledge about factors that intervene in
  the
• processes of design, implementation and
  evaluation of e-learning couses or units with the
  use of Web2.0 tools.
• Special attention on aspects of quality assurance
  and student support.
• Learning activities and assignments imply the
  active exploration and use of Web2.0 tools as a
  previous step to their real integration in a
  design proptotype.
• Prototyping and evaluation through AR-activity

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• Structure and timeframe
• 1 orientation module, 3 course modules,
• 1 actionresearch planning module

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• Pedagogical approach
• Learner centered
• Interactive
• Communicative
• Stress on effective knowledge transfer
• Case and task based learning

resources
Learning community
technology
activities
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• Used environments
• Course materials, resources and activities
  MOODLE

• Figures
• 67 participants
• Inactive for more
• than 4 weeks 20
• Never accessed 22
• Communication
• General comm.
• 11 threads, 51 posts
• 1st module
• 9 threads, 130 posts
• 2nd module (recently started)
• 7 threads, 17 posts

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• Used environments
• Course materials, resources and activities
  MOODLE

• Activities and submitted works
• Forum activities
• 4 submitted case study reports
• 2 active WIKIS (tool ranking and SWOT analysis)

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• Used environments
• Exploration activities and creation of output
• WEB2.0 tools

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• Used environments
• AR-planning ELGG

Figures Members 13 Messages 10 Forum threads
7 Forum posts 42 Files 2 Submitted AR-plans
(Feb. 14th) 5
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• The modules
• Module 1 (Dec. 1st to Dec. 15th)
• Goals
• a) Learn about different field of e-learning
  intervention.
• Identify possibilities and constraints, also
  regarding
• use of Web 2.0 tools.
• Resources and activities Reading and questions
  for reflection
• Goals achieved Lively discussion on the
  proposed questions
• WIKI First contact with Web 2.0 tools
• b) Case Study Active reflection on possibilities
  of implementation of Web 2.0 tools
• in a real environment (Tourism School UIB).
• Resources Case description
• Goals achieved 4 CS-Reports produced by 4
  groups, 16 participants in total. WIKI
  Co-evaluation

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• The modules
• Module 2 (Jan. 12th to Feb. 2nd)
• Goals
• a) Learn about different ID-approaches in order
  to be able
• to apply this knowledge on an own design project
  based
• on the use of Web 2.0 tools
• b) Reflect on need and possibilities of
• student support systems
• c) Develop a course or module design adapted to
  own
• teaching context using Web 2.0 and including an
  element of
• student support.
• d) Creation of a Social Bookmark space for more
  resources on
• ID, student support and evaluation.
• Resources and activities 2 Readings and
  questions
• for reflection, debate. Collaborative design
  development in
• a chosen Web 2.0 environment.

Students are asked to develop a course design in
accordance with their AR-planning, if they are
engaged in one.
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• The modules
• Module 3 (Feb. 9th to Mar. 13th)
• Goals
• Implementation of the prototype

Resources and activities Reading on evaluation
methods in e-learning contexts in order to give
students the possibility to develop an evaluation
strategy apart from AR. Co-evaluation of
presented evaluation strategies. Presentation of
evalaution result.
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• The modules
• Module 4 (Apr.. 20th to May 25th)

This module belongs to the AR-dimension of the
project and is only going to be carried out by
the participants who will have presented an
acceptable AR-plan by march.
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Pedro Fernández Michels UOC pfernandezmi_at_uoc.edu