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HAMK/eLearning Centre

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Briefly about project• Project is administrated by Häme Polytechnic

University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) and financed by European Social Fund.

• Project has started in spring of the 2003• Our main goals are to develop eLearning in

higher learning / education in the Häme region.• During the project we collaborate with different

partners, few of them are for example The University of Tampere , Nokia, Mediamaisteri Group and different degree programs of Häme Polytechnic.

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Training period/course• We have organized training period, our main aim

was and still is to teach different eLearning possibilities to teachers from different schools and different degree programmes.

• Training period started in October 2004 and ended in June of 2005.

• In this training period have participated 22 enthusiastic students. Some of them are teachers of different fields and schools, and the others are from companies.

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Content of training period• During this training period students have

learned/trained how to produce learning objects of their own fields and how to edit them later on.

• There are six main areas / competences in which they specialized in:– technical competence– pedagogical competence– media competence– strategical knowledge– content production competence– productisation competence.

• Teaching staff included 10 teachers of different fields. They are from several education units and universities.

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• Learning Objects for this training period are mainly produced by eLearning Centre staff and teachers.

• Learning Objects reusability is also one of the main goals, example of learning object (how to connect audio equipments to computer).

• As a learning environment during training period we used Moodle (Open Source software)

• Study material is available for all, links can be found on our website eOsaaja.

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Final result

• The purpose of this training period was for students to learn how to use smoothly programs like:

– Adobe Photoshop (graphics processing)– Macromedia Dreamweaver (web designing)– Macromedia Flash (animations)– Windows Movie Maker (video editing)– Communication applications (Skype, TeamSpeak)– Sound Forge, Audacity (sound editing) ect.

• As a result students have produced different web projects• From 22 students 20 got the diploma and some of them are planing

to expand their web projects.• For example a nursing degree programme teacher, who produced a

webcource during our training period is planing to improve it in a technical and a pedagogical way and (pilot/launch) the cource to the students during this year.Helena’s webcourseHelena’s video

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Thank you for your attention!

Please do not hesitate to ask for more information!

eOsaajan taidot http://eosaaja.hamk.fi(Project website, In Finnish)

eLearning Centrehttp://www.elearningcentre.hamk.fi/english_index.php?kieli=english(Häme Polytechnic's eLearning Centre website, In English)

Project manager: Hely Kilpeläinen, hely.kilpelainen@hamk.fi orMedia asisstant: Mirlinda Kosova-Alija, mirlinda.kosova-alija@hamk.fi