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Presentation Howest – study visit Coventry

Monday, 5th December

Nice to meet you!

Liesbeth De Blaere,Staff member HOWEST – University College West-Flandres

Belgium

Who are we?

E-learning in Belgium

Issues concerning e-learning

Examples of Belgian e-learning

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• +/- 6000 students• 24 bachelor programs and 7 master programs

• Architecture• Health care• Business and management• Industrial sciences and technology• Education• Social sciences

• 838 staff members – 470 FTE

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Flemish qualification structure• Implementation of EQF• Qualifications: set of competences that lead to

legal certificate• Education• EVC

• Qualifications: base for LLL• Importance of e-learning

• Level 5, 6, 7 and 8

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E-learning in practice:• Since 2006: distance education trails• Still trial and error; first technology, then pedagogy • Initiatives to cooperate with each other & with open university

• Design courses together <> Coaching students in each individual institution

• For whom?• Everybody, but succes rates increase:

• EVC’s (earlier adopted competences)• EVK’s (earlier adopted competences)

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Issues concerning e-learning• Succes rates low (students)• Social aspects?• Activities? Course material?• Combination of work, social life, family,

study…• ?

• Teachers need to adjust as well• TPACK-model…

• Need for (more) agreements between different education programs • from 1 level to another• from 1 program to another

• Technology is not the answer to everything• Don’t use it just to use it…

It must “WORK”; research must show the assets

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Good Practice 1

• Peer assessment tool in ELO• Dokeos Chamilo

Good Practice 2

• Twitter as Audience Response System

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Good Practice 3

• Weblectures• Skype, BigBlueButton, LYNC

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Questions?