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eDidaktikum: online community for scaffolding student teachers into digital culture
Kairit Tammets, Priit Tammets, Mart Laanpere :: Tallinn University, Estonia
ECER 2014, Porto :: Network 6 :: Open Learning: Media, Cultures, Environments
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Prologue
1993: e-mail courses, mailing lists for teachers
1997: Tiger Leap, national strategy for IT in schools
1999: the first teachers’ portal in Estonia
2005: 70% of all Estonian teachers trained in IT skills
2007: LeMill.net
2009: teachers’ portal Koolielu.ee, today: More than 7000 registered users (there are 14 000
teachers in Estonia) Less than 8000 Learning Objects
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Problem
Teachers (both experienced and recently graduated ones) belong to different culture than their students, which is undermining the teaching & learning
Introductory courses on ICT and educational technology in ITE are like a brief walk in the Hong Kong museum of history (does not make you a “local”)
Majority of ITE staff are strangers to digital culture, some actively and publicly hostile towards “digital”
“Digital” activities have been established widely only in educational bureaucracy (campus information systems, e-gradebooks in schools)
Best practice does not “accumulate”
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Scaffolding
“Scaffolding is the support given during the learning process, which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve his/her learning goals” (Sawyer 2006)
Scaffolding is gradually fading, while student takes increasingly more responsibility for his/her learning
Scaffolding can be provided by another person or by the (software) system
Affordances of the software: Maslow’s Law of Instrument (“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail")
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Design-based research
Wang & Hannafin (2005): “a systematic but flexible methodology aimed to improve educational practices through iterative analysis, design, development, and implementation, based on collaboration among researchers and practitioners in real-world settings, and leading to contextually-sensitive design principles and theories”
Researchers intervene to the process under study
Open-minded exploration of “what could be”
Multivocal, participatory process using mixed-methods approach
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The concept of eDidaktikum
Controlled environment, scaffolding towards digital culture, PLE
Culture of sharing: communities for courses, ad-hoc groups, projects
Annotating learning resources, blog posts etc: taxonomies based on curriculum, ITE program, educational sciences
Competence-based assessment: connect taxonomies with learning outcomes and resources
Organisation: consortium involves all ITE providers in Estonia
Technology: CMS Drupal extended with our own plugins
Learning analytics: Learning Locker LRS (TinCan API)
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Learning analytics
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Exploring the potential of eDidatikum
Prototype of eDidaktikum was piloted in January – May 2014, this week the new version has been taken into use in more than 10 ITE courses
Gathering feedback from users
Sustainability strategy: software development continues even after ending the project funding
Integration with a wider “digital ecosystem”: personal blogs, SSO, SIS, CMS, teachers portal Koolielu, Finnish-Estonian Educational Cloud