teaching and learning in higher education - an integral approach

TU Graz was founded by Archduke John of Austria in 1811

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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education An Integral Approach

Teaching and Learning Service System at Graz University of Technology – Austria

Walther Nagler

Martin Ebner

Isidor Kamrat

Nikolai Scerbakov

Behnam Taraghi

Kangaroos to be seen at the Vienna Zoo

Graz

Thal near Graz

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Inner city of Graz

Campus of TU Grazat Inner City of Graz

• 200.000 m² floor space (as of Jan. 2009)

• 8th largest university in Austria

• Second largest university in Graz

• 11.500 students total (winter term 2009)

Organigram of TU Graz

Dept. Social Learning Central E-Learning Service by CIS since 2006

Reach millions of people within minutes …

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„Our students have changed radically. Today‘s students are no longer the people our educational

system was designed to teach.“Mark Prenksy 2001

Net-Generation Study among Freshmen

• Study covers freshmen to TU Graz from 2007 to 2009

• Survey took place during annual “Welcome Days”

total n = 2156; (2007 n = 578, 2008 n = 821, 2009 n = 757)

• Topics: Technological equipment

Digital communicationWeb2.0 activities in general

Web2.0 activities towards E-Learning2.0

Equipment

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Comparison of Communicational Behaviour

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Communication Behavior

Use of Web2.0 in Details

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Other Microblogs

Locr

Other Virtual Realities

delicious

QR

RSS

Twitter

Other MediaSharing

Flickr

YouTube

Second Life

Videopods

Audiopods

Other Communities

Facebook

Xing

StudiVz

Social Bookmarking

Other Wikis

Wikipedia

MySpace

Weblogs

Target of Web2.0 Usage in 2009

TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System

TUGraz.online

TUGraz.online by CIS since 1998

• Single Sign-On via Shibboleth

• 1 central Database (ORACLE) – over 600 tables

• Individual Personal Access with Distinct Authorizations

• 28 Austrian Universities and TU Munich (Germany)

• Inquiry of the teaching regarding current, past or future academic years

• Individual tasks for employees using personal digital business card

• Individual tasks for students using personal digital business card

• Individual tasks for organisation units

• Tasks for service purposes

• Tasks for central administration and management with a selective interface to the SAP system used for staff, inventory and room tasks

TUGraz.online Concept

• Data: 600 tables / 6 main classes• People

• Organisation

• Teaching

• Research

• Rooms

• Inventory

• Programs: enabling access to data

• Roles: determine the preconditions of programs

• Functions: connect program‘s role with identified user

• Identified User: a physical member of TU Graz

• Advantages

• Integration into e-Learning concept of TU Graz

• User roles and rights

• Basic areas and possibilities

• Useful and uncommon gadgets

• Examples

TU Graz TeachCenter WBTMaster by IICMInstitute for Information Systems and Computer Media of TU Graz

• One center for online teaching / learning

• Single sing-on

• High degree of individualization

• Adjustment on demand

• Best performance

• Automated backup

Advantages of TUGTC

• Connected to TUGraz.online (LDAP) single sign-on, user import and import of course information

• Login possibilities• Homepage: http://tugtc.tugraz.at

• Personal Desktop

• Tutors Room

• TUGonline user card

• TUGonline course card

• Mobile

• As a member of TU Graz (with TUGraz.online access data)

• As an external Person (with special access data)

• RSS course feed

Integrated into E-Learning Concept

• Administrator• Create and manage courses and their applications

• Monitoring server and server traffic

• All teacher and user rights

• Teacher / Tutor / Author• Import users of course

• Responsible for content

• Edit tests and polls

• Moderate communication applications

• Edit course settings (fill in or remove applications)

• View and work with course-statistics

• All user rights

• User / Student• Edit forum, faqs, personal upload area, annotations,

microblogging with different devices, …

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User Roles and Rights

• Announcement / Blackboard

• Course administration data

• Content and Upload area

• Learning and teaching adds

• Forum, FAQs, Chat, Blog for several applications

• User list

• Information and goodies column right sided

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Basic Areas and Possibilities for Teachers

• RSS feed of course and external sources

• Course statistics and “file watching”

• File upload by drag & drop

• Course blog & “blog it”-button

• Evaluations & plagiarism check

• Time planer

• … more than 200 several and special apps

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Useful and Uncommon Gadgets

Example: Announcements

Example: Administration Data

Example: Main Content Area

• Virtual rooms (quiz, projects, lockers, laboratories, meetings, …)• Discussion forums• Applications (polls, evaluations, plagiarism, …)• Special tools (graphic chat, group appointments, …)

Example: Teaching and Learning Adds

Example: Forum

Example: User List and Administration

Example: Information and Goodies Column

Example: ABC-E-Books within TUGTC

Using different channels:• Weblog on TUGTC• PDA & Mobile phone• eMail

Example: Interactions within E-BooksMicroblogging and Annotations

Example: Diary – Individualized Study History

TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Weblog

TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Help

TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Search

E-Books on TU Graz

ABC-Manager

ABC-Manager

ABC-Manager

ABC-E-Books within TUGTC

Using different channels:• Weblog on TUGTC• PDA & Mobile phone• eMail

Interactions within E-BooksMicroblogging and Annotations

• Over 900h of podcasts since 2007

• Over 60 different lectures recorded

• Full service including • Instructions and settings before

• Support during lessons

• Postprocessing and publishing

• Which way can be chosen? • Recording of lectures (screen & voice & video)

• Streaming of lectures (screen & voice & video)

• Short recordings (for introductions, explanations)

• Professional Videos for TUGraz on iTunes U

• Informal recordings & streaming using Web2.0 platforms (Qik, AudioBoo …)

Podcasting Services

Podcasting Services

Example: Podcasting

Example: Streaming embedded in TUGTC

TUGraz on iTunes U since autumn 2009

TUGraz on iTunes U since autumn 2009

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TU Graz M-Learning

TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System

PLE TU Graz – TU Graz Personal Learning Environment

SOCIAL LEARNING

Computer and Information ServicesGraz University of Technology

Walther Nagler, Martin Ebnerhttp://elearning.tugraz.at

http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

http://twitter.com/sociallearning

. . . WE‘‘LL BE BACK

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