eLessons in JCSE – status report

Zoran Putnik, Zoran

Budimac

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JCSE – original state report

• JCSE originally, at Humboldt, consists of:

– 5 parts, 28 topics, 1400+smtg slides• 8 “additional problems” topics

– 2425 minutes = 61 lecture hours

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JCSE – original state report

• JCSE in practice, in Novi Sad, consists of:

– 5 parts, 22-23 topics• NO “additional problems” topics

– 1835 minutes = 44 lecture hours

– eLearning part!

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eLearning in Novi Sad – State of the art

• Chair of Computer Science of the DMI in Novi Sad, uses LMS Moodle since 2003.

• Currently, our system has (Jun, 2009):– 8 categories,– 92 courses,– 663 users

• http://perun.dmi.uns.ac.rs/moodle (http://perun.im.ns.ac.yu/moodle)

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• Since the beginning, actually the first course on Moodle, was JCSE.

– Every year, we start with the fresh list of users• last year, we had 62 users (before that 85, than 65, 60

…) • currently we have 0 users

– Every year we further developed learning material

eLearning in Novi Sad – State of the art

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Historical view

• At the beginning, Moodle was simply a repository of teaching material:– pdf versions of English slides,– pdf versions of Serbian slides

• 3 versions for each type:– 1 slide per page– 2 slides per page– 6 slides per page

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Historical view

• Since there is NO book for the course, this was the only material students used for studies – which they found insufficient!

• From school-year 2005/06, we started the development of different types of learning material – with the greathelp of our students!

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Historical view II

• As one of the possibilities for the course “Elective Seminar”, we offered course “E-learning”.

• Students of the 4th year, those who already passed the JCSE exam, we employed to develop eLessonsfor the course.

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Historical view II

• After the first year – we had 6 eLessons, that were offered to the next generation of students, as additional material.

• They were NOT satisfied, in general! Most of the eLessons were static, more of a “copies of the original slides”, “divided into too many sub-lessons”, and “nothing BUT that!”.

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Improvement view• We learned from our/their mistakes, and

the following year, set more precise rules for eLessons:

– the whole material should be created as a single eLesson,

– there must be a glossary with “less known notions and all of the definitions”,

– there must be a database with N questions, that are randomly selected to form a self-testing quiz

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Improvement view

• So … year by year … our set of eLessons, eGlossaries, and eQuizzes grew!

• At the end of school-year 2007/2008, we tough we HAD 23 Topics (out of 23 existing) covered!

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Improvement view

• OK, ok … some problems too!

• Students didn’t like our topics! – they were full of typos!– they did not have “our”, “local” letters!

• Those 2 guys on the right look like the ones that would be satisfied?

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Current view• So – we analyzed the whole ePart of the

course:– Out of 23 – 4 topics were NOT covered – 6 topics MUST be improved, 3 additional

SHOULD!– 7 topics MUST have a quiz, 3 additional could

use a better one!– Once in a future, topics should be enhanced

with assignments and forums!– Some of the topics are already extended

with Links, Chats, and/or Surveys. Why not all?

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Current view• Those were the little things!

• What was huge, were errors made, a (little bit) by students, and (much more) by transition between versions of LMS Moodle.

• Naturally, we fixed them! It took us 2 weeks of on-line time … but it’s “perfect” now!

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Current view

• What else?

– All of the mentioned was done by us. Then we employed students, once more.

– In the meantime – 7 more students got their jobs/exams creating JCSE eLessons!

– 3 of those are finished and added, 4 of them are somewhere in the development process.

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Future view• What next?

– There are 5 more lessons never presented in Novi Sad, and not covered by eFacilities.

– There are “additional topics”. Never presented nor covered.

– There is a need, for improvement of several (more) of the existing topics.

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eLearning in Novi Sad – Future view

• What next?

– In other words – we DO have what to do in the future …

– What’s important, what we DO have is NOW usable!