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ePortfolio projects in Austria

New Learning

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Different Media – Different Skills

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Third places of learning -

Drittes Bild:

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Homo ZappiensWim Veen:

Homo Zappiens grows up with PC-Mouse, TV-Remote-Control

und mobile telefone.

Plays “gamebased” und invents games.

Is communicating online.

Chattes in different roles.

Knows URLs better than

verbs or country capitals.

School is a meeting place with friends and to “benchmark” abilities than an aerea to learn

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Conclusion

• Homo Zappiens develops a range of metacognitive skills:– Enquiry based approaches – Networked learning: thinking as part of

networks– Experimental learning: no punishments– Collaborative learning: teams and roles– Active learning: making choices, act– Self organisation: setting goals– Problem solving strategies – Expliciting knowledge to others

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Message 1 – “Mindstorms”

All students will work and learn with a smallweboriented learn-and communcation device(mobiltelephon, PDA, OLPC-XO-Computer)

Full PC functions +userinterface for web-sites+ office – applications + personal learning tools + audiovisual tools

Always webconnected

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Message 2 – Social Software

Software supports learningand virtual collaboration Classroom-Wikis Webloggs (Diaries) ePortfolios Social bookmarks

Support by “Active boards”

Leearning plattforms (Moodle, dotLRN, ILIAS) administratethe learning process

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Web 2.0 at school

New Scholarship-Feedback culture-Student controlled work („Wikis“)-Subject oriented webloggs

User Created Content- Teachers create content for teachers- Content will be adapted

- Unified Content-Metadata (Calibrate)

Internet-Policy

Edumoodle as offer for all

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What is an e-learning school (e-education)?

•EveryEvery student student (upper secondary) can test (upper secondary) can test e-learning sequences in the next to years e-learning sequences in the next to years

• AllAll teachers teachers should get experience with should get experience with e-learning sequences in their subjects e-learning sequences in their subjects

• Teams of teachersTeams of teachers work on e-learning programmes (didactics, work on e-learning programmes (didactics, methods, content)methods, content)

•Good school experience in Good school experience in regional networksregional networks

•Steering groupSteering group of school partners must be established to support of school partners must be established to support content developmentcontent development

•Cluster schools are working in Cluster schools are working in networks networks and offer and offer additional additional qualificationsqualifications (IT-certificates) (IT-certificates)

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Output results of notebook-studiesOutput results of notebook-studies

Competences of NotebookPC- studentsCompetences of NotebookPC- students√ information management is quite goodinformation management is quite good√ teamwork is sometimes betterteamwork is sometimes better self-organisation is not significantly betterself-organisation is not significantly better motivation is not significantly bettermotivation is not significantly better

Side effects and risks:Side effects and risks: low concentration on learning – proved falselow concentration on learning – proved false

PCs/Internet addiction - proved falsePCs/Internet addiction - proved false

low achievement in other subjects – proved falselow achievement in other subjects – proved false

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edumoodle - Projekt

• www.edumoodle.at for all Austrian schools

• An own domain for every school (now 650 schools!)

• Eduhi/BRZ - Service an 24 hours 7 days a week

• Internetconnection: 512 kByte (20 kByte/device)

• Edumoodle-TV

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Every student gets his/her own course and

manages all tasks

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He/she defines his/her own region for every subject

… and collects tasks (texts, presentations,..)

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ePortfolios for all learners / all citizens

• ePortfolios at schools (collecting first data of works, working portfolio -> 5 steps -> presentation portfolio;

• H. Barrett, Kanada)

• ePortfolios at universities (diploma Supplement, standards and regulations for european qualification framework - EQR)

• ePortfolios in adult education (informal and selfdiceted learning, language portfolio, personal competence profile)

• ePortfolios in business – accepted competence profile ?

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Learning Portfolio

Learning IndividualsLearning Organisations

Learning Communities

Informal Learning

Formal Learning

Portfolio

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Learning Portfolio Theses (1)

ePortfolio

• The Portfolio is first of all a personal document. It is personal property owned by the originator/author

• General purpose of a Portfolio is the self-directed guidance and reflection of learning process

• The Portfolio documents competences, independent from context, from institutions and the phases in one´s life

• The Portfolio is a lifelong collection of electronical items, which occurs incidentally during daily work with electronic and communicative devices e.g. PC

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Learning Portfolio Theses (2)

ePortfolio

• The Portfolio could also include declared items of other persons and sources.

• Although all technical opportunities: the Portfolio would never pass over to other persons

• On special occassions the owner could provide other persons an insight on his/her Portfolio,

• In this case only well defined parts of the portfolio will be shown and customized for the special purpose. e.g. examinations, job application.

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Learning PortfolioPedagogical Funding:

• Pedagogical Constructivism- Random Access Instruction- Anchored Instruction- Cognitive Apprenticeship

• Progressive education- Montessori, Dalton Plan

• Epistemological ApproachResearch Learning (Landwehr)

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Learning Portfolio

Fullfilling the Postulation of Individualization in Education

Indivualization as regards Content“Obligation and freestyle”

Indivualization to time

Social Indivializationself competence and self-organizing networks

Indivialization in case of assesment and evaluation

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rocess portfolio

ePortfolio

time

conclusion portfolio

Learning Portfolio

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process portfolio

complexity of structure

project portfolios

team portfolios

Cascading Portfolios

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processportfolio

processportfolio

conclusion portfolio

conclusion portfolio

conclusion portfolio

conclusion portfolio

conclusion portfolio

portfolios of institutions enterprise portfolios

personal availability

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Portfolios in education is a powerfull tool for individual and cooperative learning.

Portfolios document the personal learning path und is useful for learning- and projectmangagement

Portfolios also meet the needs of an advanced/extended CV with samples of good performances and projectwork done by the students.

Portfolio document the contribution of each student in teamwork projekts.

Conclusion Portfolios supports students by examanations and job applications.

ePortfolio in vocational training

ePortfolio

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ePortfolio in der Berufsbildung - Aufbau

STRUCTURE:

1. Introduction

- Letter to the reader

- CV „Europass“

2. Documentation of learning projects-Targets, prozess, results, documents- Description of the own contribution

3. Evaluation- Reflection, Feedback of other students

4. Learning journal, success

AIMS:

Advanced CVJob applicationDocumentationTeamworking, project managementPersonal learning path

ePortfolio

ePortfolio in vocational training

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ePortfolio

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Europass

Project work

Reflection

ePortfolio

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Exabis ePortfolio ToolAndreas Riepl

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CISCO:- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 70 Schools LA/RA- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)- Cisco Authorized Trainings Center (CATC Vienna/Innsbruck)working for 103 local academies

Success: 5832 students, 303 teachers(CCNA1: 12.000,… CCNA4: 2700 students, CCNP 58 students)

IT-Essentials I + II (Sponsored Curricula Cisco + HP) Success: Since autumn 2002 550 Students, 30 teachers

MICROSOFT:from the MCP-Program (Microsoft Certified Professional)- Network System Engineer (MCSE) + MCSA - C #, .net Framework, DeveloperSuccess: About 40 Schools, 520 students, 340 teachers

MySAP, Oracle OCP, LPI – LINUX, …..

Example for portfolio contentExample for portfolio content

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Cultures and Languages

Kerrey-Rep: All in all 85% of IT is textprocessing

Experts from Denmark: New and classic media go hand in hand - young people are multitaskers - no fear that classical media will die !

George Steiner (Cambridge): “Sequent content oriented reading for all will last 300 years in history from the renaissance till about 2050. Then texts will be substituted by only audiovisual and multimedial communication …..”

George Steiner,

Cambridge

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e-learning will be everydays learning

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