Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - An Integral Approach

TU Graz was founded by Archduke John of Austria in 1811 http://austria-lexikon.at/attach/Wissenssammlungen/Biographien/Erzherzog_Johann/erzherzog%20johann.jpg Teaching and Learning in Higher Education An Integral Approach Teaching and Learning Service System at Graz University of Technology – Austria Walther Nagler Martin Ebner Isidor Kamrat Nikolai Scerbakov Behnam Taraghi

Kangaroos to be seen at the Vienna Zoo  Graz

Thal near Graz This is were Schwarzenegger is from … Inner city of Graz

Campus of TU Graz at Inner City of Graz
200.000 m² floor space (as of Jan. 2009)

8 th largest university in Austria
Second largest university in Graz
11.500 students total (winter term 2009)

Organigram of TU Graz

Dept. Social Learning Central E-Learning Service by CIS since 2006

Reach millions of people within minutes …

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maebmij/123180774 „ Our students have changed radically. Today‘s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.“ Mark Prenksy 2001

Net-Generation Study among Freshmen
Study covers freshmen to TU Graz from 2007 to 2009
Survey took place during annual “Welcome Days”
total n = 2156; (2007 n = 578, 2008 n = 821, 2009 n = 757)
Topics: Technological equipment Digital communication Web2.0 activities in general Web2.0 activities towards E-Learning2.0

Equipment

Communication Behavior

Target of Web2.0 Usage in 2009

TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System

TUGraz.online

TUGraz.online by CIS since 1998
Single Sign-On via Shibboleth
1 central Database (ORACLE) – over 600 tables
Individual Personal Access with Distinct Authorizations
28 Austrian Universities and TU Munich (Germany)
Inquiry of the teaching regarding current, past or future academic years
Individual tasks for employees using personal digital business card
Individual tasks for students using personal digital business card
Individual tasks for organisation units
Tasks for service purposes
Tasks for central administration and management with a selective interface to the SAP system used for staff, inventory and room tasks

TUGraz.online Concept
Data: 600 tables / 6 main classes
People
Organisation
Teaching
Research
Rooms
Inventory
Programs: enabling access to data
Roles: determine the preconditions of programs
Functions: connect program‘s role with identified user
Identified User: a physical member of TU Graz

Advantages
Integration into e-Learning concept of TU Graz
User roles and rights
Basic areas and possibilities
Useful and uncommon gadgets
Examples
TU Graz TeachCenter WBTMaster by IICM Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media of TU Graz

One center for online teaching / learning
Single sing-on
High degree of individualization
Adjustment on demand
Best performance
Automated backup
Advantages of TUGTC

Connected to TUGraz.online (LDAP) single sign-on, user import and import of course information
Login possibilities
Homepage: http://tugtc.tugraz.at
Personal Desktop
Tutors Room
TUGonline user card
TUGonline course card
Mobile
As a member of TU Graz (with TUGraz.online access data)
As an external Person (with special access data)
RSS course feed
Integrated into E-Learning Concept

Administrator
Create and manage courses and their applications
Monitoring server and server traffic
All teacher and user rights
Teacher / Tutor / Author
Import users of course
Responsible for content
Edit tests and polls
Moderate communication applications
Edit course settings (fill in or remove applications)
View and work with course-statistics
All user rights
User / Student
Edit forum, faqs, personal upload area, annotations, microblogging with different devices, …
http://www.brettspiel-blog.de/archiv/2005/10/schachdepot.html User Roles and Rights

Announcement / Blackboard
Course administration data
Content and Upload area
Learning and teaching adds
Forum, FAQs, Chat, Blog for several applications
User list
Information and goodies column right sided
http://www.sierranevada.edu/?id=551 Basic Areas and Possibilities for Teachers

RSS feed of course and external sources
Course statistics and “file watching”
File upload by drag & drop
Course blog & “blog it”-button
Evaluations & plagiarism check
Time planer
… more than 200 several and special apps
http://www.blavish.com/philips-swarovski-active-crystal-computer-gear/ Useful and Uncommon Gadgets

Example: Announcements

Example: Administration Data

Example: Main Content Area

Virtual rooms (quiz, projects, lockers, laboratories, meetings, …)
Discussion forums
Applications (polls, evaluations, plagiarism, …)
Special tools (graphic chat, group appointments, …)
Example: Teaching and Learning Adds

Example: Forum

Example: User List and Administration

Example: Information and Goodies Column

Example: ABC-E-Books within TUGTC

Using different channels:
Weblog on TUGTC
PDA & Mobile phone
eMail
Example: Interactions within E-Books Microblogging and Annotations

Example: Diary – Individualized Study History

TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Weblog

TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Help

TUGLL – TU Graz LearnLand - Search

E-Books on TU Graz

ABC-Manager

ABC-E-Books within TUGTC

Using different channels:
Weblog on TUGTC
PDA & Mobile phone
eMail
Interactions within E-Books Microblogging and Annotations

Over 900h of podcasts since 2007
Over 60 different lectures recorded
Full service including
Instructions and settings before
Support during lessons
Postprocessing and publishing
Which way can be chosen?
Recording of lectures (screen & voice & video)
Streaming of lectures (screen & voice & video)
Short recordings (for introductions, explanations)
Professional Videos for TUGraz on iTunes U
Informal recordings & streaming using Web2.0 platforms (Qik, AudioBoo …)
Podcasting Services

Podcasting Services

Example: Podcasting

Example: Streaming embedded in TUGTC

TUGraz on iTunes U since autumn 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleasewait/2272096624 TU Graz M-Learning

TU Graz Teaching & Learning Service System

PLE TU Graz – TU Graz Personal Learning Environment

SOCIAL LEARNING Computer and Information Services Graz University of Technology Walther Nagler, Martin Ebner http://elearning.tugraz.at http://elearningblog.tugraz.at http://twitter.com/sociallearning

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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - An Integral Approach

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