Avicenna Pedagogical Model Prof. Mohamed Bettaz ICT Director, MESRS, Algiers Algeria...

Avicenna Pedagogical Model

Prof. Mohamed Bettaz

ICT Director, MESRS, Algiers Algeria

[email protected]

Avicenna Virtual Campus in Iraq 1st workshop Amman 8-10/11/09

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Introduction

Designed during the “project phase” of Avicenna Virtual Campus in the Mediterranean region, established by the European Commission and UNESCO in 14 countries (2002-2006).

Large consensus Flexibility, Independency of authoring tools, Independency of e-learning (distance learning) platforms, Quality assurance framework.



Outline

Introduction Avicenna Courses Avicenna Modules Avicenna Sessions Avicenna learning sequences Assessment of the produced material Demo (online training course) Concluding remarks



Avicenna courses

An Avicenna course is a part of an academic curriculum in the degree program delivered by your institution.

An Avicenna course consists of online learning hours and contact hours between tutors and learners. Distribution between online training hours and contact hours can be fixed at your discretion.



Avicenna modulesAn Avicenna module is a “course unit”,

An Avicenna course is composed of one or several modules (or course units),

A module is a self-contained, formally structured learning experience with a coherent and explicit set of learning outcomes and assessment criteria,

A module has a twenty (20) hours duration,

A module is equivalent to one (1) Avicenna credit.



Avicenna sessions

An Avicenna session is the “equivalent” of a chapter in traditional education.An Avicenna module consists of

several sessions.



Avicenna sessions (cont)

According to the involved documents, sessions might be classified into:introductory (or first) sessions,Intermediary sessions,terminating (or last) sessions.

The first session (of the module)

Consists of the following (multimedia) documents: Welcome, Overview (of the current module

material), Learning outcomes (of the current

module), Previous knowledge (required

before starting the current module).Avicenna Virtual Campus in Iraq 1st workshop Amman 8-10/11/09


The intermediary sessions

Consist of the following (multimedia) documents: Diagnostic Assessment, Overview (of the current session material), Learning Outcomes (of the current session), Set of learning sequences.



The diagnostic assessment

Diagnostic assessment is required before starting the current session,

It is intended to: probe the cognitive background of the

learners, and to remind them of relevant material.



The last session (of the module)

Learning resources, which consists of a set of (usually) online (multi-media) documents,

Acknowledgement of the used online and/or offline, paper and/or electronic resources.



Avicenna learning sequences

The sequence is the basic unit of the instructional process (something like section in the traditional education)Each (Avicenna) session consists of

several (Avicenna) learning sequences, of twenty (20) minutes each.



Avicenna learning sequences (cont)

A sequence consists of the following:Introduction (Welcoming trainees,

introduction of the academic tutor, and definition of the learning sequence objectives),

Content (the new learning material),Conclusion (summary of the presented

content ).

The formative assessment

Formative assessment is intended to help in the formation of the cognitive mass,

It follows each learning sequence (remember that diagnostic assessment precedes each session).

Remark : summative assessment (which is intended to assess the degree of accomplish-ment of the learning outcomes), is not yet implemented in Avicenna courses.



Assessment of the produced material

Two kind of strategies are adopted: an a priori assessment strategy and an a posteriori assessment strategy.The a priori assessment provides feedback

during Avicenna course development, The a posteriori assessment provides

feedback during Avicenna course delivery.



The assessing actors

A priori (during course development): Internal (peers, Dept council, School council, Deans

council),External (peers, experts in distance / e-learning

education, UNESCO scientific council, UNESCO accreditation committee).

A posteriori (during course delivery): Internal (our learners, our tutors),External (learners and tutors from other institutions).



Advanced assessment strategies

(not implemented so far) Not only course developers and learners have to be

assesses, but also: Tutors, curriculum designers, and administrators.

tutors have to be assessed by peers and learners for feedback on their tutoring performance,

curriculum designers have to be assessed by peers and quality assurance institutions for feedback on their design,

administrators have to be assessed for their use of allocated resources.



Quality assurance AQUAS: Avicenna QUality Assurance System.

http://pleiad.unesco.org/aquas All needed information:

Development criteria,Assessment,Accreditation.

Inspired by the European quality assurance system (Bologna process, Berlin communiqué, Prague declaration, etc.).


http://pleiad.unesco.org/aquas


Concluding remarks Many courses have been developed in AVC according to

the presented model. Philadelphia university

http://pleiad.unesco.org/Fr/PrincipaleEleve.htmlFundamentals of telecommunication and computer

networks Introduction to Information SystemsAnalysis and design of management information

systemsBiostatisticsCell biologyComputer architectureDistributed information systems


http://pleiad.unesco.org/Fr/PrincipaleEleve.html

Concluding remarks (cont)

E-management and information technologyFundamentals of Artificial IntelligenceGeneral biology Instrumentation and measurements Introduction to probability and statisticsMechatronics systemsSignal analysis and processingSoftware analysis and designTraining course in EnglishTraining course in ArabicTraining course in French


Acknowledgement

Avicenna virtual campus portal: http://pleiad.unesco.org/portal/

Avicenna virtual campus platform: http://pleiad.unesco.org/

Avicenna virtual campus quality assurance page: http://pleiad.unesco.org/aquas

Joint work with I. Alfuqaha, training course: http://pleiad.unesco.org/Fr/PrincipaleEleve.html


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