Electronic content in education

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Electronic content in education

• Media culture with(out) media?
• Marina Cizmic Horvat
• Predrag Gjuro Kladaric

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Content
mobile phones off, please

• e-learning on the Faculty
• Media culture course
• lectures, seminars, online
• student activities
• online activities logs
• expected future

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We are

• Marina Cizmic Horvat
• Department of Information Sciences
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Ivana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia
• mfruk_at_ffzg.hr

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We are

• Predrag Gjuro Kladaric
• IT Services, Faculty of Humanities and Social
  Sciences
• Ivana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia
• gjuro_at_ffzg.hr

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e-learning on the Faculty

• In the academic year 2005/2006 we started a new
  elective course named Media Culture for the
  first year students of Information Sciences and
  for the other interested students.

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e-learning on the Faculty

• Electronic contents in the study of Information
  Sciences at the faculty have successfully been
  used for a long time as an essential part of the
  teaching process.

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e-learning on the Faculty

• E-learning systems started in 2002. A system
  named Moodle was chosen because of its features
  and has been in use since 2005 with great
  success.
• Particular implementation of Moodle on the
  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in
  Zagreb operates under name Omega because name
  Moodle badly functions in Croatian.

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Media Culture course

• Media Culture as the course was organized in
  total of fifteen meetings in the semester - we
  met once a week, one period of lecture and one of
  seminar.

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Media Culture course

• We prefer learning in an active way, because it
  is more effective than a passive receiving of
  information.

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lectures, seminars, online

• This kind of learning and practicing competence
  requires a new form of didactic, which is not a
  scholastic one, meaning a passive acquiring of
  the necessary information.

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lectures, seminars, online

• We want the student to be active, to choose the
  theme and the way of the presentation of his
  personal experience with the media.

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lectures, seminars, online

• The traditional classroom teaching is now
  replaced by the new way of learning, which means
  developing competences and collecting information
  and knowledge concerning current problems.

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lectures, seminars, online

• This kind of learning is more an actualization of
  knowledge from different data bases, than
  learning for future, or collecting knowledge for
  possible cognitive challenges.

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lectures, seminars, online

• This kind of teaching demands new specific
  conditions limited number of students in a
  group, large amounts of lessons and the
  appropriate electronic environment.

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Media Culture

• The course Media Culture includes two different
  types of knowledge the knowledge of the subject
  itself focusing on traditional and digital media
  and the knowledge of one's personal experience
  with the media.

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Media Culture course

• The teacher will make students more sensitive to
  the media - they should become aware of them and
  develop critical appreciation of the media
  position in their life today.

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student activities

• Most of the students chose the presentation. The
  presenters and the class showed great interest in
  such presentations and the discussions were
  sometimes quite heated and full of controversial
  opinions.

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student activities

• The students varied in their competence in using
  computer technology. They ranged from real
  beginners to cyber kids, total computer addicts.
  Because of that the problems which arose while
  preparing the presentation were very different.

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student activities

• Different levels of technological equipment
  sometimes even caused unpleasant situations when
  some groups felt being discriminated against.
• The reasons were the modest electronic
  environment at the faculty, too many students in
  a group and insufficient number of lessons.

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Omega numbers (http//omega.ffzg.hr)

• 2007 Omega numbers for online content
• 200 teachers (out of 450)
• 23 departments (out of 23)
• 220 courses (out of 2700)
• 3300 students (out of 6000)

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Omega numbers (http//omega.ffzg.hr)

• departments with most e-courses
• Information Sciences, 69 courses
• English, 22 courses
• History, 20 courses
• Sociology, 19 courses
• Croatian Language, 15 courses

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online activities logs
Raw Log Data
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online activities logs
Medium Raw Log Data
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online activities logs
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online activities logs
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online activities logs
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online activities logs
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current state expected future

• online availability of learning resources is much
  better than several years ago
• Omega system encourages production of digital
  learning material
• produced in a standard way
• available at a standard place
• usable in a standard way

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current state expected future

• although e-learning made huge advancement in
  recent years...
• electronic content is still NOT available in
  optimal amount and quality
• students and teachers are still not proficient
  with IT
• there are technical and classroom space
  restrictions

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current state expected future

• We have a dream smaller groups, better
  conditions concerning the equipment, reciprocal
  help, active anticipation in occasional projects
  at the faculty and Media culture with media.
• New library building is expected to free
  significant amount of space in the old building
  that will be available for space and
  technological improvements

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Media culture with(out) media?

• Thank you
• Marina Cizmic Horvatmfruk_at_ffzg.hr
• Predrag Gjuro Kladaricgjuro_at_ffzg.hr