Seminar at MKFC 20. - 21. 11. 2008
Wikicampus
This is the summary of the international seminar at MKFC, Stockholm, in November 2008
Please check MKFC blog page which tells about our visit at: http://www.stockholmcollege.se/
The following 3 checkpoints were made during the second seminar day:
CHECKPOINT 1: Cross-checking of the material
Healt Care material
- the check-list was considered as a good working tool
- too much text / page
- good instructions, good contextualization
- topics: are we aware of the level of expertise of the readers?
- topic "Ethics": assignment 2: this topic would be fruitful to combine with a dicussion assignment
- a recommendation for using links in the material: it is good to give a lot of links, but then instruct the students properly, for example: "have a look at the links on a general level, then choose two which interest you most and work on them according to the assignment"
Sustainable Development material
- good thematical disposition
- the introduction page will be of same format in all packages: e.g. "here you can find links to following learning objects"
- discussion area: give clear instructions as how many messages the student is supposed to send and on how many he should give comments - all assignments should be on separate pages
- the table pages should have a short instruction
- we will check if we can use tables which can be filled
- Can we use a tool which gives a description for a keyword if you move your cursor on top of it?
Hospitality material
- the learning objects will be kept separately (as separate slides in ppt)
- the instructions for the assignments will be typed with a coloured font, which will make it easier to find them
- the pedagogical function varies in the assignments. Good!
- good pictures!
Työparit tekevät tekstien korjaukset 31.1. 2009 mennessä, jonka jälkeen Ville Yli-Knuutila voi tehdä ulkoasujen yhtenäistämisen.
CHECKPOINT 2: What factors have contributed to the fact that this DIGIS-project turned out to be an example of good practice in e-learning material production?
- PROs:
- good project meetings
- realistic and clear aims
- the atmoshpere in the project is good
- the participants feel that they are able to work on their own professional area
- all participants are committed to do what they have promised
- multi-disciplinary working team is a richness
- good to have separate working days for material production; no-one has time to produce material during her ordinary workday
- Adobe Connect Pro -sessions good to have reserved in everyone's timetable, this way it is easier to reach the aims within the given time period
- a good project also stimulate in many other ways; the participants get constantly new ideas from each other
- an international project allows the participants also to develop the language skills
- good to have checkpoints where you can stop to analyse your own material, and how others experience them
- CONs:
- the first meeting could be shorter in order to give more time for pondering upon what the project is all about and how to organize one's own timetable
- the funding from the educational units (at TUAS) has not been realized
CHECKPOINT 3: Further networking: where, with whom?
- Raija Sairanen told about an Erasmus application for a virtual health care campus that she is working on. The following countries are involved: Holland, Belgium, Portugal, Denmark, Italy
- MKFC: netCommunity Juu Planet; Helena will give the link
- Tarja will send more links to contacts that everyone can make acquaintance with
- MKFC will participate in the Unesco Conference in Geneve in November 2008 http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.php-URL_ID=10260&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
- Sirpa told about the BUP (Baltic University Program) network (Itämeren alueen kestävän kehityksen verkosto)http://www.balticuniv.uu.se/
- Sirpa is applying for funding for mapping the existing virtual courses for sustainable development within the Baltic Sea region
- Minna will deliver material for quality assurance for virtual materials; links from good practices- slide on Digis mainpage
