B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto

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B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto TEEM’15 TEEM’1 5 B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto Armando Silva Polytechnic Institute of Porto School of Education InED (Centre for Research and Innovation in Education) asilva @ ese.ipp.pt Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality ck 8. Evaluation in education and guidance

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B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto

TEEM’15TEEM’15

B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto

Armando SilvaPolytechnic Institute of PortoSchool of EducationInED (Centre for Research and Innovation in Education)

[email protected]

Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

Track 8. Evaluation in education and guidance

B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto

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B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto

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THE EXPERIMENT

Main research goals1. understand the use that the teachers of ESE / IPP make of

the Moodle platform, in the context of their teaching activities

2. which Moodle tools that ESE / IPP teachers exploit in their teaching activities

3. the pedagogical strategies developed and implemented by teachers

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THE SAMPLE

• 61 teachers representing all scientific areas of ESE / IPPorto

• 37 females and 24 males

• The subjects were divided into four age groups• G1: 20-30 years old

• G2: 31-40 years old

• G3: 41-50 years old

• G4: Over 50 years old

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DATA COLLECTION

Data collection was done through responses to an survey on the use of the Moodle platform in ESE / IPP

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THE RESULTS

Global distribution of the use of “Activities Tools”

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"Activities tools" of G2 (31-40 years)

"Activities tools" of G3 (41-50 years) "Activities tools" of G4 (More than 50 years)

"Activities tools" of G1 (20-30 years)

THE RESULTS “Activities Tools” by age groups

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THE RESULTS

Behaviours of the four age groups - “Activities Tools”

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THE RESULTS

Global distribution of the use of “Resources Tools ”

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"Resources tools" of G2 (31-40 years)

"Resources tools" of G3 (41-50 years)

"Resources tools" of G1 (20-30 years)

"Resources tools" of G4 (More than 50 years)

THE RESULTS “Resources Tools” by age groups

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THE RESULTS

Behaviours of the four age groups - “Resources Tools”

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Two different purposes:

1. As a repository for documents

2. To provide documents to extra classroom activities

THE RESULTS

Pedagogical strategies

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1. Majority of the ESE / IPP teachers uses the Moodle platform2. The discipline format mostly used is the "Topics”3. "Activities Tools”

i. "Forum" is the most used, followed by "Work" and "Database”ii. "Workshop," "SCORM", "Survey", "Pool" and "Test" have a very residual useiii. "LTI tool” is never used

4. "Resources Tools" i. "File" is the most used, followed by "Folder" and "URL" and then the "Label" and

the "Page”ii. "Book" and "IMS package” are never used

5. Pedagogical strategies - two purposesi. As a documentation repository ii. To put documents directed to extra classroom activities

6. The age variable - except for the youngest group - doesn't seem to be a factor of distinctive behaviours

7. Younger teachers showed the lowest use of the Moodle platform

CONCLUSIONS

The result of the study revealed

B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto

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B-Learning in the School of Education at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto

Armando SilvaPolytechnic Institute of PortoSchool of EducationInED (Centre for Research and Innovation in Education)

[email protected]

Thank you very much for your attention

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