slovenian policy in ict and key achievements
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Slovenian policy in ICT and key achievements
Nives Kreuh, National Education Institute Slovenia
Slovenia – 25 years
20.000 m2, 2 mio people, 45 km coast line
2016
National Education Institute Slovenia (NEI) – 26 years
NEI
NEI
is the main national
research, development and
consultancy institution in the
field of pre-school, primary
and general
secondary education.
• Prepare expert documents
• Set up system changes
• Develop quality education
• Encourage and support professional
development
• Monitor and evaluate novelties
• Develop good school practice together
with kindergartens and schools
• Collaborate internationally
• Cooperate with Slovenian teachers
and headmasters abroad
• Perform other tasks in collaboration
with the Ministry of Education, Science
and Sport
Policy in ICT
- Schools curricula reform (2003 – 2008)
- Key Competencies for Lifelong Learning (2004)
- E-development groups (NEI, 1998)
- Computer Literacy Programme (1994)
- European Social Funds (2004 - )
app. 860 schools (2000 units), 25 000 teachers, 225 000 students
(kindergarten, primary, secondary)
E-education project
Vir: Martin, A. in Grudziecki, J. (2006): DigEuLit: Concepts and Tools for Digital Literacy Development
DIGCOMP: A Framework for developing and understanding Digital Competence (Evropska komisija 2013)
RESULTS in E-EDUCATION project
•The E-competency Standard Framework (2010) – 6 e-competencies
designed and described
•The Way to E-competency (2012) – the model of training courses
•20 various subject areas included
•52 courses in virtual classrooms (blended learning and competences
assessment)
•38 self-assessment courses
•63 various workshop programmes
Types of Consultancy
Leadership
Consultancy
Workshops
for teachers
Technical
support
Seminar / ConsultancySemin Consultancy
12-15 participants up to 5 participants
16-24 hours 4 hours
blended learning approach Face to face and online
E-competencies assessment examples of good practices
•36.574 participations in courses (20.296 participants out of 25.000
teachers).
•14.920 worshops for 39.073 participants
•More than 70% principals went through the principle courses
•285 members of development teams, 760 collaborators
•99,3% schools included in the project
•The SIO portal
•More than 2000 on-line communities
•Web surveys
•E-card of competencies
•Software with examples of good practice
•OER
• educational e-material (128)– multimedial and interactive
– Creative Commons License (CC)
– various subjects: mathematics, physics, geography, history, biology, chemistry, …
– http://www.sio.si/no_cache/sio/gradiva/repozitorij_gradiv_trubar.html
– 10 mio EUR
• officially approved pilot e-textbooks– 4 e-textbooks in 2011
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Framework for designing e-student
books
Fundamental characteristics
of e-textbook design –
• Content
• Methodology
• Technology
• Users
• Organization
• Operationalization
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E-student books
• Development and upgrade of existing e-material
• Test portal: http://eucbeniki.sio.si/test/iucbeniki/
• Quality assurance
– authors
– reviewers
– consultants
– Testing in pilot schools
Concept of learner-centredness
Learner‘s activities
create
remember
understand
apply
analyse
evaluate
Definition of e-textbook
textbook material in a digital e-environment,
characteristic of printed tb + access to other learningresources,
active and collaborative learning,
multiple paths to answers,
option to monitor and assess learner‘s own learningprogress.
Natural Science and mathematics,
2013-2014
Social Science and Languages,
2014/2015
4th grade Matematika, naravoslovje in tehnika
5th grade Matematika, naravoslovje in tehnika, gospodinjstvo
6th grade Matematika, naravoslovje, gospodinjstvo
7th grade Matematika, naravoslovje Nemščina
8th grade Fizika, kemija, matematika Slovenščina, nemščina, likovna umetnost, geografija, zgodovina, angleščina , glasbena umetnost
9th grade Fizika, kemija, matematika Slovenščina, nemščina, likovna umetnost, geografija, zgodovina, angleščina , glasbena umetnost
1st year Kemija, matematika Slovenščina, likovna umetnost, geografija, zgodovina, angleščina, glasbena umetnost
2nd year Kemija, matematika
3rd year Kemija, matematika
Example –http://url.sio.si/example
Copyright and i-textbooks
• E-textbooks published under CC license BY-NC-SA
• Allows users to remix, tweak, and build upon work non-
commercially, as long as they credit author and license
their new creations under the identical terms.
Pilot projectUse and testing
e-content and e-services in teaching and learning
around 100 schools, 700
teachers, 2500 students (4th
grade to 2nd year) involved
Apps for e-textbooks 14-years-old “tablet” student
Pages from e-
textbooks 12-years-old “PC” student
Amela Sambolić Beganović, @asambo5
Amela Sambolić Beganović, @asambo5
● Review of interactive e-textbook (advantages over textbook)
● The impact of interactive e-textbook on student learning
● The impact of interactive e-textbook on teaching
Monitoring areas#3
Feedback on the inclusion of e-textbook into learning process
Class observation
from almost 200 lesson observations in two years on different subjects
More than
a half of students
use
e-textbooks and
e-materials
sensibly when revising.
In the second year of the pilot project teachers used interactive elements and
other e-learning materials when dealing with new
content more frequently.
Feedback on the inclusion of e-textbook into learning proces
Class observation
from almost 200 lesson observations in two years on different subjects
Teachers have still plenty of space for the use of e-
content primarily in the area of individualisation
and differentiation of lessons.
Teachers don’t pay enough attention to developing
communication and collaborative skills in
relation to the potential of ICT.
Questionnaires for students
Feedback on the inclusion of e-textbook into learning proces
More than a half of the students like using interactive e-
textbooks, specially for reading and learning new
contents and doing tasks during lessons.
Questionnaires for students
Feedback on the inclusion of e-textbook into learning proces
Students most frequently use interactive e-textbook for searching different information, less often for observation,
research or investigation.
Questionnaires for teachers
Feedback on the inclusion of e-textbook into learning process
67% use various
teaching strategies and
approaches when using interactive
e-textbooks
55% of them see
more opportunities
for assessment and
individualization
in classes
45 % of teachers
detect more opportunities
for collaborative
learning between students
Feedback on the inclusion of e-textbook into learning proces
Questionnaires for parents
Parents do not notice any difficulties with:- internet safety - limited access to e-
devices - digital skills of students
Parents can’t tell whether students study more at home now with e-textbooks than before with analogue textbooks.
Conclusion
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Thank you for your attention