Best Practice cases from Estonia

Mart Laanpere, martl@tlu.ee

Tallinn University, www.tlu.ee

Cases collected in Estonia

• Study Aids for Vocational Education (TLU)

• Organic Chemistry (TLU)

• Didactics in Elementary School (HC)

• Didactics of Informatics (TLU)

• Pedagogical and Technological Foundations of E-Learning Environments (TLU)

• European Studies (TLU-UTA)

• E-Learning in Higher Education (Erasmus IP)

Case 1: Study Aids for Vocational Education

• Context: 4,5 ECTS course for BA (vocational pedagogics) students

• Pedagogical approach: 1/3 of the time for F2F meetings (50:50 lectures and practicums), ‘learning by doing’, both reflective and productive assignments

• Technology: IVA LMS, Audacity, HotPotatoes, Camtasia (http://lin2.tlu.ee/~heidi/HotPot/), streaming video

Case 2: Organic Chemistry

• Context: compulsory 3 ECTS course for BA (biology) students

• Pedagogical approach: course is heavily lab-oriented (1.5 hrs lecture, 3 hrs seminar, 34 hrs in laboratory)

• Technology: IVA LMS (pdf resources, forum discussions, quizzes), CD-ROM with videos & MDL Isis Draw (free molecular modeling software)

Case 3: Didactics of Informatics

• Context: MA course for informatics teachers and multimedia & learning systems design

• Pedagogical approach: competency-based education, portfolio assessment, combined individual (reflective and productive) and group tasks

• Technology: IVA LMS, Camtasia, Plone CMS, eFormular

Case 4: Erasmus Intensive Programme LEARN

• Context: international summer school for PhD students (33 persons from 15 countries)

• Pedagogical approach: introductory activities online, 10-days intensive workshops, working on full papers, peer review.

• Technology: Plone CMS, Edublogs + Wikispaces, Flickr, videoconference

Thank you!

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