Fostering Friendships - Enhancing Social Bonds in the Classroom
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2. Background
• 1995 the first online educa conference
The idea to bring together an international
group (Community) of practitioners
interested in exploiting technology to
support learning regardless of sector,
location or approach.
9. 2 pre-conference events
- security & defence learning forum
- Iberoamérica forum
- 16 workshops
4 Plenary sessions
- Opening: Learning, Cultural identity and ICT
- Generation Y
- Friday Morning Open educational resources,
sustainability of OER Globalisation
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10. • Parallel sessions (86 different sessions).
You can participate in those sessions as being :
• Presentation sessions
• Focus session on a specific topic
• Panel discussions
• Demonstration and best practice show cases.
• Exhibition stands. 112 stands from 25 countries.
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43. • In that way it is easy to uploading it to an LMS.A
course on e-moderator is obliged to all teachers.
• Start with teaching them the basic skills of
computing.
• What kind of learning activities do your students
have to undertake? And what activities can you
teach online? What do you hope that they do
online?
• Pedagogical approach.
Tips & Tricks
By helping the enthousiasts and hopefully they bring more and more teachers online.
Sometimes you have to oblige people using several tools.
Oblige teachers on an online archive folder.
e-learning support. A responsible person who can tackle the problems teachers have in creating their courses. Just to avoid that they stop at the first barrier (f.i. what if they forgot their password).
We have to follow the new way of living, don't stay with "medieval" ways of teaching. In a supermarket workers were obliged to use the barcode system (otherwise they were fired), while in teaching they tend to stay on his 'traditional', well known way.
Teaching face-to-face sets the teacher as a leader, while an online course gives other opportunities.
Management needs to be positive about introducing e-courses, otherwise it will not work.
