• ELISE is a project:

– eLearning for in-service teacher training in Europe– Minerva Project – 2002-2005

Conclusions

• ELISE is a course:– eCourse about eLearning in FLANDERS– 8 weeks, 8 modules, fully online, HIGHLY STRUCTURED!– wide variety of challenging tasks -> CSCL – one group = two coaches, 15 participants

Conclusions

• ELISE is a network of e-learning professionals

– eNetwork about eLearning– since 2004: over 80 participants– ecoaches recruited from participants– Conferences, articles... -> dissemination

Conclusions

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”

George Bernard Shaw

Looking at the stars

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

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If weare going

in the

wrong

direction,technologywill get us

there faster!

A. Haddad, “technologies for education”

• Technology earns its place in regular education

• ‘Technology to do better what we have been doing all along…– … supporting traditional on-campus students

• Applications– Online testing – Sharing of content

Blended Learning?

– Innovation?– New learners? Learning style? Personal learning?– E-inclusion?– Just-in-time / Anytime-anywhere?

-> Wayne Hodgins : Airplanes are not based on flapping wings

A New Hope – An old promise

Constructivism?• Cognitive constructivism

– Piaget– Active learning is better than

passive learning

• Social constructivism– Vygotsky– Collaborative (social)

learning is better than individual learning

What about in-service teacher training?

“Teach what you Preach”?

Concept of the e-course• Fully online +2 face-to-face meetings (initial and evaluation (final))• Eight weeks – eight online modules

Introduction Introduction post

Instructional design Forum assignment

Tasks Forum assignment

Communication Chatsession + evaluation

Feedback Group work

Evaluation E-portfolio reflection

Networking Reflection ELISE network

Digital Learning Environments

(optional module)

… software that gets better as more people use it

Web 2.0 is …

• Participants

– Time ! (2-4 hrs each week)• (up to 10 hours each week!)

– Interdisciplinary groups = rich experience

– Use of forum is rather chaotic

– Technical tools are complex (forum, blog, chat…)

Experiences of coaches and participants

• Technical

• Learning processes

• Subject Matter Expert

Role of the e-coach?

Two difficult questions…

Do we need more or less individual just in time learning?

Do we need more or less technology?

• Maarten.cannaerts@ond.vlaanderen.be• www.furl.net/members/maartencannaerts• www.edublogs.be• www.bloglines.com/public/maartencannaerts• www.slideshare.net/maartencannaerts• www.eliseleren.be

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