A. Name of the activity
“How to use a LMS in a course”
Two open courses for teachers in HE at the University of Bremen
One closed course for members of a work group at the University of Bremen
f2f - training
B. Place
University of Bremen, Center of Multimedia in Higher Education
C. Date(s)
First course:
5 April 2006, 10.00 – 13.00, 7 participants
Second course: 26 April 2006, 10.00 – 12.30, 6 participants
Third course: 18 November 2006, 10.00 – 12.30, 5 participants
D. Trainers.
Martina Salm, University of Bremen
Jens Bücking, University of Bremen
E. Participants, number of participants & their background
The participants are teachers, assistants reseachers and tutors (students, secretaries). Sometimes
tutors work with the LMS on behalf of the lecturer.
First course:
A work group of the Institute of Geography (5 academic staff, one technician and one administration
secretary). They have normal user’s knowledge on ICT and internet but have different focus. They
expect to learn how to accompany their f2f courses with the LMS Stud.IP especially administration and
communication and they want to know whether the LMS is really an assistance or not.
Second course:
Open course with three participants (academic and administration staff) of the Center of Further
Education and three participants (academic and administration staff) of the faculty of Language and
Literacy Studies. They also have normal knowledge on ICT with different focus.
Third course: Open course with participants of the faculty of Biology, the faculty of Business Studies
and Economics and the faculty of Cultural Studies (academic and adminstrative staff and two student
tutors). They also have normal knowledge on ICT with different focus.
F. Description
Stud.IP is the official Learning Management System of the University of Bremen but the use of it is not
compalsory for the university staff. It implements several tools for administration, collaboration and
communication.
Courses for learning the basic use of the Learning Management System Stud.IP are offerred to the
academic staff of the University of Bremen but the participation is optional. The participants (teachers
or tutors) need to have their own courses at the University as a precondition and therefore they learn
the administration of the course under didactical aspects. Normally they would want to use it in
blended courses.
After registring to our course we ask the participants per e-Mail or phone what they expect from the
course and what didactical approach they use in their courses and we adapt our course accordingly.
The duration of the basic course is 2 ½ hours and after the participants have the possibilty to deepen
their knowledge in individual courses.
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Objectives
The main objective is to overcome their inhibitions using ICT and to develop competencies using ICT
in their courses. Often they flinch from the time and the work they have to spend in learning. So we
divide the courses in basic and advanced but usually the basic course is enough for the teacher needs.
After completing a course, participants need individual support at their workplace, per mail or phone
(some kind of helpdesk).
The specific objectives are
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how to administrate a f2f course in a virtual environment.
participants have to reflect how they design their f2f course and what changes are required if
it’s a blendend course in a virtual environment.
show the different possibilties for collaborative work (discussion forum, wiki) and when it’s
resonable to adopt them.
show the different possibilities for communication (messages, mail, chat) and what to use
when.
participants need to think of the students - do they have the knowledge and competencies to
deal with this offer?
G. evaluation
We make no specific evaluation of the courses because we make once a year an overall
survey concerning the LMS and during which we ask especially for the courses. The customers
feedback are good and the participants of our courses normally use the LMS for their own
courses and work as multiplicators in their faculty.
H. material
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I.
Document: “Stud.IP for teachers - basics”, german version
LMs Stud.IP
criteria, tools and guidelines.which criteria, tools and guidelines addressed the teacher
training activity?
Tools
We work with our LMS Stud.IP and a wiki. We checked the tools and ressources of the
partners but nothing fits exactly to the course.
Guidelines
We use especially the guideline Interaction, communication & collaboration because
this issues changes for the teachers when they use ICT and often they have no imagination
of this and what it means for them.
Criteria
Our courses are designed considering the following criteria:
1. Teachers training actions goals should be to develop competencies.
2. Teachers training practice should be designed using scaffolding principles for
active learning.
3. Teachers training should be adapted to the different delivery systems.
4. Teachers training should respect diverse training / learning.
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