StudentCentered learning through

technology

Tools and technologies used @ Prasena & DCT International

L O Ritzel

Faculty BlogPages

• Faculty have been taught to create their own Blogs

• Sample: Tourism Marketing Blog• URL: http://www.20six.co.uk/markesposito• Objective as explained by Dr Esposito:

The Purpose of the Tourism blogpage is to enable the students to interact with the topic and to access the information at their own time and pace. The blogpage features a good number of articles/ reports, inherent to the contents of what is discussed in class, but also a relevant set of extra info and resources, for those who get interested in Tourism and want to read more about it.

Student BlogPages

• All students are taught on how to make Blogpages

• Sample: Youth contribution or participation in global society

• URL: http://www.20six.co.uk/301068• Objective: Giving the student relevant topics of

today Management, taking them serious and get their work on a virtual level

WebCollaborator

• URL: http://www.webcollaborator.com/• What is: Threaded discussion Board • Objectives:

– Have students decide and manage discussion groups on marketing, toursim or accounting issues

– Class assignments promoting teamwork– Faculty sets up a discussion on DCT related

questions: discussions about motivation, brain friendly learning, handling of difficult students

Instant Communication

• www.skype.com • Objective: Each

student has a VOIP account and can/ must communicate with each others and faculty through Internet telephonie

• http://messenger.msn.com/

• Objective: Each student has a MSN Messenger account and can therefore communicate among each others, families and faculty

Online Surveys

• Zoomerang online Surveys• URL: http://info.zoomerang.com/ • Sample: Are you a global citizen• Objective: Having students to create and market

their own ‚global‘ surveys and inviting their families and friends back home to join and participate

• Advantage: Relevance of assignment (online), Real- cases, Marketing data for DCT Marketing team

Student Webpage

• Webpage instead of Course-Book

• Sample: ICT webpages

• URL: http://www.dct.ch/ict/dct.htm

• Objective: Usage of Information and Communication Technologies in business within our fast changing socio-economic environment using Webtechnologies. Brainfriendly multimedial learning.

Old System

New System

Old System

• Class Participation – be there, sleep, dream, hope the class is over

New System

• PerformancePerformance – be THERE, 100%, disagree, add on, ASK

Old System

• HomeWork – do what ever the teacher ask for, repeat the notes done in class

New System

• ObjectivesObjectives – become part, take yourself serious, all is about business, surviving, teamwork (sometimes), competition (sometimes)

Old System

• Repeat What the Teachers teaches you – learn by heart, read course books

New System

• Become a Researcher Become a Researcher yourselfyourself – Find answers by yourself, learn to do a professional research using the Internet, All is out there, but you must learn to find, sort, filter, priorize and summerize it

Old System

•Project work – Do it because the teachers wants you to do, try to please, think like the teachers thinks

New System

•ProjectProject workwork – do it yourself,

develop a project from A to Z, become Project Manager, I show you your destination, but you must find your own way (buddhism), think yourself

Old System

• Exam – the big FEARFEAR, the one to work for (forget later again), repeat data, the 2hrs that decide your future

New System

• In the fieldIn the field – do as good as you can under time pressure, get it done, perform under stress, apply new knowledge, the „take it with a smile“ thing

Sample Objective• Objective: Expense report, send me a professional

Expense sheet based on the URL below.• URL:

http://www.prasena.com/public/virtual_u/lectures/dct/expenseexercise.htm • Helpful links:

Website all about the EURO (which countries use so far the Euro http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/what/countries.html )Website with currency converter XEhttp://www.xe.com/ucc/ The Worldfactbook online gives you every information on every country of the world. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ Mappy to calculate your time and the distance from A- B (Vitznau to Zurich Airport) http://www.mappy.com/

Webcast

• eLearning through Webcast

• URL: http://www.alado.net/dctwebcast.htm

• Samples: see next slide

• Objective: 3 weeks every term the classes are doing eLearning through Webcast technologies

Samples for Webcast in class

• On Managment aspects http://www.prasena.com/public/virtual_u/lectures/dct/therace.htm

• Technical quizhttp://www.prasena.com/public/virtual_u/lectures/dct/uKnoworNOT_files/frame.htm 

• Technical gameshttp://www.prasena.com/public/virtual_u/lectures/dct/ppquiz.htm

• ePresentationshttp://www.prasena.com/public/virtual_u/lectures/dct/km/kmwebcast.htm 

• Internet Treasurehunts... And many more just follow a course at http://www.dct.ch/ict/dct.htm

This presentation was brought to you byLukas O Ritzel through Webcast from Thailand representing:

Prasena – DCT – DWESlritzel@prasena.com

Or online at http://www.prasena.com/public/events/tutormentor2005.htm

Here you can as well download the more detailed paper about the same topic with all links and additional information, just follow the link to supporting paper

under my name Lukas Ritzel