THE USE OF E-LEARNING IN THE USE OF E-LEARNING IN THE FIELD OF CONTINUOUS THE FIELD OF CONTINUOUS

EDUCATION OF INFORMATICS EDUCATION OF INFORMATICS TEACHERSTEACHERS

Dušan Vučković – Faculty of Electronics, NišDragan Janković – Faculty of Electronics, NišKatarina Milanović – Microsoft d.o.o.

7th Workshop "Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering“

Risan, September 2007

ContentsContentsMicrosoft and education in SerbiaCooperation between Microsoft and Faculty of Electronics in NišEducation of high school teacherseLearning education of teachersVB.NET eLarning course – experiencesWhat next?Conclusion

Microsoft and education in Microsoft and education in SerbiaSerbiaSigned Memorandum of Understanding with Ministry of Education and Sports in 2004Promotion of digital literacy One of the main Microsoft activities: Organisation of free courses for continuous education of teaching staff

Serbian MoE Serbian MoE StrategyStrategyBased on EU documents, Education development strategy from 2005 to 2010 formulated, Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports defines: the concept of continuous education of teachers is a part of overall policy and strategy of training and vocational education developmentContinuous education of informatics teachers is necessary because of the frequent changes in informatics curricula, in accordance with the changes in the field of informatics

CooperationCooperation and and In 2004. –Microsoft IT Academy

established at the Faculty of Electronics

In 2005. – Cooperation between Microsoft and Faculty of Electronics regarding education of teaching staff

Several courses for teachers and professors of elementary and high schools in Serbia organized

Transition to e-learning courses in 2006

CContinuous developement of ontinuous developement of informatics informatics teachteachers – the needsers – the needs Computer science is an elective subject from

1st to 8th grade in Serbia In high school, informatics is a regular

subject (state approved program) in the 9th and the 10th grade of K-12 (computer literacy) and through various subjects of the 11th and the 12th grade (different programs and the number of classes depending on the educational profile, but generally dedicated to learning of programming and the implementation of specialized software packages in vocational subjects)

37,372 FTE teachers in high schools 2,000 informatics teachers in Serbia

Classic education Classic education Higher number of attendees from

Serbia Free of charge courses Results of education – good Weaknesses – small number of

attendees Absence from work – class

compensation Significant T&E for schools or

attendees

eLearning educationeLearning education eLearning VB.NET course prepared based

on Microsoft materials Learning materials for teachers (attendees) Learning materials and Web site for

students LMS distrubution and testing Homework Forum exchange experiences (best and

worst practise) plus online community formed

Final examination of new aplication Top list and prizes for motivation

LMS implementationLMS implementation Enables easy remote distribution

of e-learning content that can be employed in many ways

Possibility of individualized courses for continuous education of teaching staff

Results of learning are tracked and recorded in the database of continuous education of teaching staff and can be analyzed

GGoal and resourcesoal and resources of the of the coursecourse

The goal of the online course – training of informatics teachers to help them provide quality programming teaching in VB.NET programming language

We have author learning materials for students and teachers

VB.NET course is diveded into 12 units Number of tests: 12 One individual final aplication in VB.NET

PortaPortall

Number of page viewings per lessonNumber of page viewings per lesson

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Certificates

ResultResultss Number of attendees - 369 Number of certified attendees - 75 Attendees from all around Serbia

(Novi Sad, Gračanica, Kraljevo, Smederevo..)

Overall satisfaction high Interest for new courses Significant experience in

organizing new eLearning courses

ExperiencesExperiences

The teachers were not motivated for obtaining the certificate that is not acknowledged by the accreditation system for teachers in Serbia

The course duration of 4 months, with 12 units together with the tests and multiple working tasks (around 40 hours of work for teachers) was too long

More statistics and More statistics and conclusionconclusion

Necessary investments in continuous education of teachers

Necessary investments in continuous education of informatics teachers

E-learning is practical solution for continuous education