the tu graz e-book strategy

The TU Graz E-Book StrategyFrom Content Managment to Online Multiple

Device Usage

Martin Ebner

Department Social Learning

The department is a service center for all non profit internal and external questions regarding e-learning at TU Graz since

2006 whereas the focus is on the possibilities of networked based,

communication guided teaching and learning processes.

Personal LearningEnvironment

TUGrazonline

TUGraz.online serves different tasks:

• 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• ...

TeachCenter

TeachCenter serves different tasks:

• Announcement / Blackboard• Course administration data• Content and Upload area• Learning and teaching adds• Forum, FAQs, Chat, Blog for several applications• User (learner) managment• Integration of third party application• Information and goodies column right sided

• ... more than 200 several and special app

TeachCenter

TU Graz TeachCenter November 2013:

• > 30% of all lectures are online (>1500 courses)• all faculties, especially in the bachelor program• > 15.000 users• Typical online-day: about 300 - 400 students are working in parallel on the system

TU Graz TeachCenter January 2013 - Useractivity

TU Graz TeachCenter November 2013 - Number of courses

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E-Books in TeachCenter

E-Books on TU Graz

ABC-Manager

http://ebook.tugraz.at

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Presenter

The overall strategy focusing on embedding, connecting and

complementing each other system in use.

Graz University of Technology

SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services

Graz University of Technology

Martin Ebner

http://elearning.tugraz.atmartin.ebner@tugraz.at

Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

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