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Quality assurance in Higher Education and the ICTpolicy support at University ofGenoa: the portal "AulaWeb" and theproject WEL (Web Enhanced Learning)
No full textAulaWeb (http://www.aulaweb.unige.it) is the WEB Portal for Education of the University of Genoa, it is based on the Open Source software Moodle, which has been adopted three years ago as the centralized university ICT support to improve the traditional teaching. Nowadays AulaWeb counts around 21.300 student enrolled and, on this portal, there are 112 Courses of Study offering some 1800 subjects with more than 900 teachers involved.
The aim increasing the use of ICT on education in our University and, in particular, to accustom the teachers over the use of many functionalities that Moodle supports in order to enhance the quality of educational offer.
In these three years the staff of AulaWeb proposed a lot of technical seminars devoted to the teachers involved in order to make them able to manage as many functions as possible among all the functions of the platform.
The process adopted by our university was based on voluntary adhesion of the teachers that joined AulaWeb.
In order to test the agreement between the students, we proposed them a questionnaire with questions regarding both possible technical problems and the usefulness of the activities presented.
During this process, we had to face the demand of a large part of teachers involved in AulaWeb longing to acquire more skills both in new technologies both in the methodological approach for web communication; for this reason we also provided them a course in Instructional Design (WEL), proposed on AulaWeb and a set of technical seminars giving a survey on many techniques useful for web-based education with the partnership of ITD of CNR (Institute of Didactic Technology of National Centre of Research) of Genoa.
In order to get an evaluation of the quality of all the educational offer, we participated this year to the UNIQUe project for University Accreditation on the use of ICT in teaching; the results of this process are still underway
EduOpen: Italian Network for MOOCs, First Three Months Evaluation after Initiation
No full textEduOpen is an Italian national network devoted to foster the MOOCs diffusion, not just another national provider, being mainly focused to intervene in some crucial fields such as: educational innovation, internationalization strategy, educational research on OER in order to build up some strategy of diffusion and also to make an effort of training those people involved into ICT supported education. It has been officially launched December 30th 2014 by seven universities, along with EDUNOVA (an Interuniversity Centre for supporting innovation technology in education, communication and research), by answering a project call of "Miur" (Italian Ministry of education). The founding universities are: the Polytechnic of Bari and the Universities of: Bari, Ferrara, Foggia, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Parma and Genova. The kick off took place April 20th 2015 and the official opening has been April 21th 2016 on the "Miur" premises; During this time, the network tuned various experiences of partners, defining and refining its own guidelines, according to both the literature and the Italian agency's recommendations (ANVUR). Nowadays, the number of universities increased up to sixteen and other ones are being negotiating their entrance
Il progetto AulaWeb & Teaching Tools
No full textQuesto documento si propone di illustrare un progetto finalizzato a stimolare un gruppo pilota di
docenti delle Professioni sanitarie dell’Università di Genova all’adozione di metodologie
didattiche in grado di sfruttare le potenzialità ICT messe a disposizione dall’Ateneo. In questo
contesto si inseriscono, con prospettive di sviluppo interessanti, i corsi di Laurea delle Professioni
sanitarie, che in Liguria hanno sedi formative su tutto il territorio e vedono un forte
coinvolgimento di docenti appartenenti al SSN. Le specificità e l’organizzazione territoriale di
questi corsi necessitano non solo di formare i docenti all’uso di metodologie didattiche innovative
in grado di coinvolgere in modo partecipativo gli studenti, ma anche di trovare soluzioni per
minimizzare gli spostamenti di docenti e studenti, senza diminuire la qualità e l’efficacia
dell’offerta formativa, bensì aumentandone l’attrattività. Il progetto intende sperimentare un
modello di teacher training da proporre a tutto il personale del settore
A teachers’ training program at the University of Genoa
No full textTeaching is one of the most challenging professions. In our society, knowledge is expanding rapidly, and modern technologies are demanding teachers to learn how to use them fruitfully.
While new technologies increase teachers’ training needs, they also offer part of the solution. Information and communication technology (ICT) can provide more flexible and effective ways for teachers professional development.
However, teachers tend to integrate technologies in their teaching, more easily and more fruitfully, when they experienced ICT skills as learners.
The universities and teacher training institutions also seem to recognize the importance of integrating ICT in education and teacher training, even if the implementations of the appropriate practices is not always a priority in their financial plans.
This training seems particularly urgent for teachers of Health Professions, because first of all, they are professionals and secondly they are teachers.
This project aimed to stimulate a pilot group of Health Professions Degree course teachers to adopt instructional methods able to exploit the potential of ICT offered by the University of Genoa.
The specificity and the territorial organization of such courses at the University of Genoa need, not only, to train teachers to use innovative teaching methods that engage the students in a participative way, but also to find solutions to minimize the displacement of teachers and students, without diminishing the quality and effectiveness of the training offered, but rather increasing its attractiveness.
This training model started with creating virtual cooperative learning-teaching communities as a base for the permanent teacher training and this paper focuses on the instructional design method as a way to organize the whole design process.
This article approaches a model of teacher training supported on the ICT potential as a virtual learning environment which makes interactive communication and cooperative learning in a socio-cultural perspective.
In this paper, the teacher training approaches show that many cases adopt ICT into their training process as a real integrated training environment allowing teachers to experience ICT-based pedagogies.
This project has also the objective to establish cooperative learning communities for the continuous training of teachers and the educational innovation in Centers.
The results state that ICT policies are still not well developed in the Faculties of Medicine and reveal only a partial match between policies, needs, and the actual in-service training. Innovative applications of ICT are not enough promoted.
We need more studies comparing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different training approaches. However, during our short course, we could grasp some hint for identifying some criticalities; in a nutshell, we can say that the participants appreciated the opportunity to immediately put into practice the theoretical seminars and the ICT topics they recognized as immediately usable in their courses, while remaining indifferent to those requiring more specialized skills such as creating video lessons. We also realized they are still timid while using, as students, ICT tools as forum for communicating among them and with their tutors
REPORT ON THE GLOREP TRAINING EVENT HELD IN PERUGIA (IT) ON JULY 2013
No full textOn July 16, 2013 the GLOREP Training event on Learning Objects (LO)s organized by the Virtual Education Community
(VEC) Standing Committee (SC) of ECTNA, took place in
Perugia.
The event was meant to offer, to the interested people from
ECTNA, an opportunity for being trained to learn, use and install GLOREP the federation of distributed repositories of LOs
AulaWeb, Web-based Learning as a Commodity - The Experience of the University of Genova
No full textStarting from the academic year 2005/2006, the University of Genova has foster the use of AulaWeb, a virtual environment based on the open source software Moodle, to promote the introduction of web-based technologies in the traditional educational process. We describe the experience of the past four years presenting the approach we have followed to encourage the use of AulaWeb among faculties, the numbers of users we have reached, an Instructional Design course we have organised to promote educational technology
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