E-Learning as Worldwide Support to Education of

Language and Culture for a small country’s Diaspora

Goran Hudec, Damir Kalpic, Kristijan ZimmerUniversity of Zagreb, Croatia

National strategic commitments

To enhance connections with its Diaspora

Nurture Croatian national identity in the era of globalisation

On the elementary education level

19 different countries on Croatian language and culture programmes

In year 2008 the Croatian government supported 88 teachers working in benefit of some 6860 pupils

On higher education level

34 lector centres worldwide integrated into national university programmes

Objectives

To provide higher quality of educational materials by including a choice of multimedia learning objects.

To enhance availability of educational materials

To improve educational economics of Croatian language and culture worldwide.

Premise

Educational materials will be developed on the basis of the Croatian language and culture curriculum for Diaspora document

On higher education level a common shell will be realized

Definition of educational model On-line courses as part of the

education system LMS working environment

definition Standardization IEEE (LOM) 1484.12.1-2002 NIMAS

Interactive educational materials in rich multimedia and in the form of hypertext makes them more appealing to younger generations who are accustomed to video and computer technologies.

A tentative tool

Adaptive Hypermedia Courseware (AhYCo) Developed & used at

University of Zagreb University of Rijeka

Evaluation of students and lecturers

To support the Bologna Process Support for interactive learning

Or some other choice after public tendering

Project evaluation

Project Council

To organise procedures for animating and recruiting pupils through school, church or diplomatic channels, or via on-line applications

To provide tools for initial checking pupils knowledge in informatics and language.

To organize community and parents support

To form worldwide learning groups.

Objectives To provide higher quality of educational materials by including a choice of multimedia learning objects.

To enhance availability of educational materials

To improve educational economics of Croatian language and culture worldwide.