Pedagogy Studiesin a High-Tech Environment

András Benedek - Judit Vidékiné ReményiDepartment of Technical EducationBudapest University of Technology and EconomicsHungary

Pedagogy courses – the flagships of learning

innovations• High-quality teaching is a

prerequisite for high-quality education and training

• “Teaching can be taught, to some degree, but not the way many graduate schools of education do it, with a lot of insipid or marginally relevant theorizing and pedagogy.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/05/why-we-must-fire-bad-teachers.html

• Drastic changes of the „social context” of teacher education

IT diffusion – new phenomena

• increased access to broadband internet

• mobile networks• individualized learning • transformation in terms of

quality • formulation of a new quality

service reference-system

The basic question

How to introduce a non-typical learning environment in an organization of higher education with significant traditions?

• Answer:• blending the

learning environments

The introduction of the Moodle environment• Starting – 2006 • Linux operational system,

open source course management system, GPL license

• PHP program language• Webserver: Appache• Database: MySQL• Web 2.0 – E-learning• Moodle 1.9.3• Users: 4500 (2010)

Subject: Digital Pedagogy- new content -

Follow-up of the participants

- sophisticated, tailor-made feedback -

For participants of the courses

• create their own detailed user profiles and blogs

• share their ideas and thoughts

• participate in learning actively and continuously

Flexible course organization

• subject-based (organized for a specific topic)

• time-based (organized according to a time schedule weekly or for a semester)

• community-based (built on a central forum)

Users of the Moodle system

• students • administrators• lecturers with

different rights

Statistics on communication

Clusters by different student-interest

User Matrix

The development-transformation of the learning environment

• Traditional• Atipycal• Blended• Networked

learning• M-learning

High-tech learning environment used

• as a source of content

• as a source of information

• as a means of communication

• as a means of knowledge generation

New questions

• These questions may arise regarding the usage of an electronic learning environment: – Who uses it and

for what? – When and how? – How effectively?

Conclusion

The new generations, broadly meaning the modern individual, can indeed get used to the new environment – partly virtual, and operating in divided time in a significant part, and turn the organic learning environment provided by the e-communication techniques into instrumental knowledge.

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