Dr Krzysztof Gurba

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Dr Krzysztof Gurba

• Tischner European University Cracow, Poland

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Dr Krzysztof Gurba

• Tischner European University
• Cracow, Poland

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My experience (1)

• Tischner European University (small, private,
  young staff, modern curriculum, traditional
  academic attitude)
• Small groups
• Individual tutors
• Students and faculty recognized personally
• SOCIALIZING EFFECT

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My experience (2)

• Jagiellonian University (great, 640-years
  tradition, national, traditional staff, universal
  curriculum, open to new technology)
• Many possibilities
• Famous professors
• Old tradition
• DEPERSONALIZING EFFECT

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My experience (3)

• Computer Science and Management University (big,
  private, very rich, very modern)
• High technology
• e-community
• Administrative attitude
• FACTORY EFFECT

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Nothing will ever replace or equal

• MASTER PUPIL RELATIONSHIP WITH FACE TO FACE
  CONTACT IN REAL TIME...

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e-learningBAD REASONS AND ERRORS

• only to lower costs and enlarge income
• without sufficient methodological background
• only because of the lack of academic facilities
• only because of the lecturers shortage of time
• with wrong teaching techniques
• only for fashion reasons
• only for marketing reasons

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e-learningGOOD REASONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

• Greater self-realization for students
• Less administrative ballast
• Promotion of digital literacy
• Development of virtual campuses and common
  curricula
• Professional training and life-long education
• Social inclusion in connection with the
  informational society development

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How to make e-learning more human-oriented?

• Establish broader and more integrated virtual
  communities
• Promote virtual exchange of students (virtual
  Erasmus)
• Adjust pace of knowledge acquirement to students
  capabilities
• Use better methods of monitoring not only results
  but also students efforts
• Develop user-friendly and goal-oriented teaching
  methods

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How to make e-learning more human-oriented?
cont.

• Provide better feedback
• Employ virtual tutors providing guidance and
  mentoring
• Enlarge teachers presence on-line
• Personalize teaching, personalize software
  personalize terminals
• Focus on postgraduate studies and professional
  training

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How to make e-learning more human-oriented?
cont.

• Create hybrid system of academic life or campus
  life
• Implement (supplementary) computer mechanisms for
  prevaluation of students grading papers
• Use on-line anti-plagiarism tools
• Develop and exchange good archives and on-line
  resources

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How to make e-learning more human-oriented?
cont.

• Build and moderate local, academic and campus
  on-line communities
• Intensify research on the effectiveness of
  on-line instruction
• Support virtual volunteerism
• Exchange good practices in applying e-learning to
  the excluded communities
• Engage e-pupils in active citizenship

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Nothing will ever replace or equal

• MASTER PUPIL RELATIONSHIP WITH FACE TO FACE
  CONTACT IN REAL TIME...
• ...BUT IT IS WORTH TRYING!

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Dr Krzysztof Gurba

• Tischner European University Cracow, Poland