THE USE OF E-LEARNING IN THE USE OF E-LEARNING IN THE FIELD OF CONTINUOUS THE FIELD OF CONTINUOUS
EDUCATION OF INFORMATICS EDUCATION OF INFORMATICS TEACHERSTEACHERS
Dušan Vučković – Faculty of Electronics, NišDragan Janković – Faculty of Electronics, NišKatarina Milanović – Microsoft d.o.o.
7th Workshop "Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering“
Risan, September 2007
ContentsContentsMicrosoft and education in SerbiaCooperation between Microsoft and Faculty of Electronics in NišEducation of high school teacherseLearning education of teachersVB.NET eLarning course – experiencesWhat next?Conclusion
Microsoft and education in Microsoft and education in SerbiaSerbiaSigned Memorandum of Understanding with Ministry of Education and Sports in 2004Promotion of digital literacy One of the main Microsoft activities: Organisation of free courses for continuous education of teaching staff
Serbian MoE Serbian MoE StrategyStrategyBased on EU documents, Education development strategy from 2005 to 2010 formulated, Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports defines: the concept of continuous education of teachers is a part of overall policy and strategy of training and vocational education developmentContinuous education of informatics teachers is necessary because of the frequent changes in informatics curricula, in accordance with the changes in the field of informatics
CooperationCooperation and and In 2004. –Microsoft IT Academy
established at the Faculty of Electronics
In 2005. – Cooperation between Microsoft and Faculty of Electronics regarding education of teaching staff
Several courses for teachers and professors of elementary and high schools in Serbia organized
Transition to e-learning courses in 2006
CContinuous developement of ontinuous developement of informatics informatics teachteachers – the needsers – the needs Computer science is an elective subject from
1st to 8th grade in Serbia In high school, informatics is a regular
subject (state approved program) in the 9th and the 10th grade of K-12 (computer literacy) and through various subjects of the 11th and the 12th grade (different programs and the number of classes depending on the educational profile, but generally dedicated to learning of programming and the implementation of specialized software packages in vocational subjects)
37,372 FTE teachers in high schools 2,000 informatics teachers in Serbia
Classic education Classic education Higher number of attendees from
Serbia Free of charge courses Results of education – good Weaknesses – small number of
attendees Absence from work – class
compensation Significant T&E for schools or
attendees
eLearning educationeLearning education eLearning VB.NET course prepared based
on Microsoft materials Learning materials for teachers (attendees) Learning materials and Web site for
students LMS distrubution and testing Homework Forum exchange experiences (best and
worst practise) plus online community formed
Final examination of new aplication Top list and prizes for motivation
LMS implementationLMS implementation Enables easy remote distribution
of e-learning content that can be employed in many ways
Possibility of individualized courses for continuous education of teaching staff
Results of learning are tracked and recorded in the database of continuous education of teaching staff and can be analyzed
GGoal and resourcesoal and resources of the of the coursecourse
The goal of the online course – training of informatics teachers to help them provide quality programming teaching in VB.NET programming language
We have author learning materials for students and teachers
VB.NET course is diveded into 12 units Number of tests: 12 One individual final aplication in VB.NET
PortaPortall
Number of page viewings per lessonNumber of page viewings per lesson
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Certificates
ResultResultss Number of attendees - 369 Number of certified attendees - 75 Attendees from all around Serbia
(Novi Sad, Gračanica, Kraljevo, Smederevo..)
Overall satisfaction high Interest for new courses Significant experience in
organizing new eLearning courses
ExperiencesExperiences
The teachers were not motivated for obtaining the certificate that is not acknowledged by the accreditation system for teachers in Serbia
The course duration of 4 months, with 12 units together with the tests and multiple working tasks (around 40 hours of work for teachers) was too long
More statistics and More statistics and conclusionconclusion
Necessary investments in continuous education of teachers
Necessary investments in continuous education of informatics teachers
E-learning is practical solution for continuous education