TU Graz was founded by Archduke John of Austria in 1811
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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education An Integral Approach
Teaching and Learning Service System at Graz University of Technology – Austria
Walther Nagler
Martin Ebner
Isidor Kamrat
Nikolai Scerbakov
Behnam Taraghi
Kangaroos to be seen at the Vienna Zoo
Graz
Thal near Graz
This is were Schwarzenegger is from …
Inner city of Graz
Campus of TU Grazat Inner City of Graz
• 200.000 m² floor space (as of Jan. 2009)
• 8th largest university in Austria
• Second largest university in Graz
• 11.500 students total (winter term 2009)
Organigram of TU Graz
Dept. Social Learning Central E-Learning Service by CIS since 2006
Reach millions of people within minutes …
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„Our students have changed radically. Today‘s students are no longer the people our educational
system was designed to teach.“Mark Prenksy 2001
Net-Generation Study among Freshmen
• Study covers freshmen to TU Graz from 2007 to 2009
• Survey took place during annual “Welcome Days”
total n = 2156; (2007 n = 578, 2008 n = 821, 2009 n = 757)
• Topics: Technological equipment
Digital communicationWeb2.0 activities in general
Web2.0 activities towards E-Learning2.0
Equipment
Comparison of Devices
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iPod iPod + Video MP3 Player Laptop Netbook PC MAC iPhone Mobil + WLAN Mobil + www Mobil
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Comparison of Communicational Behaviour
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email newsgroups Skype instant VoIP twitter weblog others
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Communication Behavior
Use of Web2.0 in Details
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passive active for learning not checked
Other Microblogs
Locr
Other Virtual Realities
delicious
QR
RSS
Other MediaSharing
Flickr
YouTube
Second Life
Videopods
Audiopods
Other Communities
StudiVz
Social Bookmarking
Other Wikis
Wikipedia
MySpace
Weblogs
Target of Web2.0 Usage in 2009
TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System
TUGraz.online
TUGraz.online by CIS since 1998
• Single Sign-On via Shibboleth
• 1 central Database (ORACLE) – over 600 tables
• Individual Personal Access with Distinct Authorizations
• 28 Austrian Universities and TU Munich (Germany)
• Inquiry of the teaching regarding current, past or future academic years
• Individual tasks for employees using personal digital business card
• Individual tasks for students using personal digital business card
• Individual tasks for organisation units
• Tasks for service purposes
• Tasks for central administration and management with a selective interface to the SAP system used for staff, inventory and room tasks
TUGraz.online Concept
• Data: 600 tables / 6 main classes• People
• Organisation
• Teaching
• Research
• Rooms
• Inventory
• Programs: enabling access to data
• Roles: determine the preconditions of programs
• Functions: connect program‘s role with identified user
• Identified User: a physical member of TU Graz
• Advantages
• Integration into e-Learning concept of TU Graz
• User roles and rights
• Basic areas and possibilities
• Useful and uncommon gadgets
• Examples
TU Graz TeachCenter WBTMaster by IICMInstitute for Information Systems and Computer Media of TU Graz
• One center for online teaching / learning
• Single sing-on
• High degree of individualization
• Adjustment on demand
• Best performance
• Automated backup
Advantages of TUGTC
• Connected to TUGraz.online (LDAP) single sign-on, user import and import of course information
• Login possibilities• Homepage: http://tugtc.tugraz.at
• Personal Desktop
• Tutors Room
• TUGonline user card
• TUGonline course card
• Mobile
• As a member of TU Graz (with TUGraz.online access data)
• As an external Person (with special access data)
• RSS course feed
Integrated into E-Learning Concept
• Administrator• Create and manage courses and their applications
• Monitoring server and server traffic
• All teacher and user rights
• Teacher / Tutor / Author• Import users of course
• Responsible for content
• Edit tests and polls
• Moderate communication applications
• Edit course settings (fill in or remove applications)
• View and work with course-statistics
• All user rights
• User / Student• Edit forum, faqs, personal upload area, annotations,
microblogging with different devices, …
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User Roles and Rights
• Announcement / Blackboard
• Course administration data
• Content and Upload area
• Learning and teaching adds
• Forum, FAQs, Chat, Blog for several applications
• User list
• Information and goodies column right sided
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Basic Areas and Possibilities for Teachers
• RSS feed of course and external sources
• Course statistics and “file watching”
• File upload by drag & drop
• Course blog & “blog it”-button
• Evaluations & plagiarism check
• Time planer
• … more than 200 several and special apps
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Useful and Uncommon Gadgets
Example: Announcements
Example: Administration Data
Example: Main Content Area
• Virtual rooms (quiz, projects, lockers, laboratories, meetings, …)• Discussion forums• Applications (polls, evaluations, plagiarism, …)• Special tools (graphic chat, group appointments, …)
Example: Teaching and Learning Adds
Example: Forum
Example: User List and Administration
Example: Information and Goodies Column
Example: ABC-E-Books within TUGTC
Using different channels:• Weblog on TUGTC• PDA & Mobile phone• eMail
Example: Interactions within E-BooksMicroblogging and Annotations
Example: Diary – Individualized Study History
TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Weblog
TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Help
TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Search
E-Books on TU Graz
ABC-Manager
ABC-Manager
ABC-Manager
ABC-E-Books within TUGTC
Using different channels:• Weblog on TUGTC• PDA & Mobile phone• eMail
Interactions within E-BooksMicroblogging and Annotations
• Over 900h of podcasts since 2007
• Over 60 different lectures recorded
• Full service including • Instructions and settings before
• Support during lessons
• Postprocessing and publishing
• Which way can be chosen? • Recording of lectures (screen & voice & video)
• Streaming of lectures (screen & voice & video)
• Short recordings (for introductions, explanations)
• Professional Videos for TUGraz on iTunes U
• Informal recordings & streaming using Web2.0 platforms (Qik, AudioBoo …)
Podcasting Services
Podcasting Services
Example: Podcasting
Example: Streaming embedded in TUGTC
TUGraz on iTunes U since autumn 2009
TUGraz on iTunes U since autumn 2009
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TU Graz M-Learning
TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System
PLE TU Graz – TU Graz Personal Learning Environment
SOCIAL LEARNING
Computer and Information ServicesGraz University of Technology
Walther Nagler, Martin Ebnerhttp://elearning.tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
http://twitter.com/sociallearning
. . . WE‘‘LL BE BACK
EdMedia 2010 - Toronto
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