This presentation discusses strategies for educational innovation and e-learning at Jimma University in Ethiopia. It recommends establishing an educational innovation center to provide resources and training to teaching staff. It also suggests formalizing contact with each faculty through an educational innovation committee and collaborating with educational researchers. Performing needs analyses of teachers and disseminating best practices are also presented as ways to support the adoption of innovative teaching methods using information and communication technologies.

1. Institutional strategies
for educational innovation
and e-learning
Prof. dr. Frederik Questier - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jimma University, Ethiopia, June 2015

2. This presentation can be found at
http://questier.com
http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier

3. E-learning Challenges
at Jimma University?

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Roger's adoption curve

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How to get every teacher
to apply innovative teaching?
➢ Innovators
➢ will start if no barriers
➢ Early adopters – early majority
➢ will start when you show them best practices
➢ The rest
➢ will need in situ support

9. 10http://jarche.com/2010/01/work-is-learning-learning-work-2/

10. Werken met portfolio's
04/10/05 | pag. 11

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Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)
Venkatesh, V.; Morris; Davis; Davis (2003), "User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward a Unified View", MIS Quarterly 27 (3), pp. 425–478

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Research studies show that
how much and how effectively
teachers integrate ICT
in their teaching process
depends mainly on their educational vision
(not age, gender, ...)

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Teachers modern educational vision 
→
Teacher's educational ICT use 

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Involve all stakeholders

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Build an
educational innovation center
➢ Expertise center
➢ Resources for experimentation
➢ Research approach
➢ Mixed team
➢ Educational scientists
➢ Educational technologists
➢ Provide services to teaching staff and students
➢ E-learning environment
➢ Training of teacher staff
➢ Facilitation of innovation

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Formalize contact with faculties
➢ Educational innovation steering committee
➢ members from
➢ each faculty
➢ central academic services
➢ and/or
➢ in each faculty
➢ an active, full time responsible for educational
innovation

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Collaborate with edu
researchers
➢ Researchers / teachers from faculty of
educational sciences could
➢ assist with advice
➢ help in training teacher staff
➢ elaborate research projects around local
context
➢ involve internship and thesis students

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Educational mission
and vision on teaching / learning
➢ Get it written
➢ Get it known
➢ Get it implemented
➢ ask on every curriculum reform
➢ ask every new teacher to elaborate her vision
on it

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Perform a teacher needs analysis
Our results
➢ Didactical support for which tasks? (56%-30%)
➢ Adapt to the way students learn most efficiently
➢ Development of activating tasks
➢ Use of ICT in education
➢ Development of efficient learning materials
➢ Motivating my students
➢ Translate competences to evaluation
➢ Giving feedback to my students
➢ Translate competencies to effective learning activities
➢ Formulating end competences for my courses
➢ Adapt to the prior knowledge of my students

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Perform a teacher needs analysis
Our results
➢ Didactical support in which way? (66%-33%)
➢ Online self study courses
➢ Workshops
➢ Individual support of an educational advisor
➢ Intervision
➢ Project group
➢ Individual coaching/mentoring by an experienced colleague
➢ Formal training 'academical didactics'?
➢ 57% 'yes'

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Disseminate best practices
➢ Website, news letter, books, ...
➢ Yearly day of Educational Innovation
➢ External keynotes
➢ Workshops from internal innovators
➢ Panel discussions
➢ Poster sessions

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Provide didactical seminar
for (new) teachers
➢ yearly
➢ 4 days residential
➢ 'mandatory' for new teachers
➢ reflection about personal educational vision
➢ didactical methods
➢ Introduction to educational technologies
➢ feedback with video recordings

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Provide workshops
➢ How to motivate my students?
➢ How to make my courses more interactive?
➢ Peer assessment for group projects
➢ E-learning platform
➢ Student portfolio
➢ Formulation & analysis of Multiple Choice tests
➢ Intellectual property & plagiarism
➢ Digital formats
➢ Open learning with wiki’s, Wikipedia, wiki courses, ...
➢ Open Source Software & reusable learning resources
➢ Voice techniques

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Provide question driven support
➢ Face to face advise and consultancy
➢ E-mail helpdesk
➢ helpdesk@ju.edu.et
➢ OTRS (Open Source Trouble Ticket System)

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Facilitate innovation projects
➢ Open call for projects in colleges
➢ Provide funding
➢ Anything from small seed money to 2y 1 FTE
➢ Challenge: continuation after the funding
➢ Dissemination
➢ Scalability
➢ Implementation in other programmes
➢ Or: assign central people that can go from
project to project

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Facilitate communication
between students and staff
Firstname.familyname@ju.edu.et
yearcode@ju.edu.et
coursecode@ju.edu.et
+ variants for 'ad valvas' and 'work students'
Software: GNU mailman : www.lists.org

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Learning Management System
prerequisite
Educational database
Students
Teachers
Courses
Unique stable codes!

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Involve your LMS users

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Evolution in E-learning?
e-learning 1.0 e-learning 2.0
closed source software open source software
solitary platform integrated in ICT-environment
closed to outer world open where useful, closed where necessary
only own institution connected with other institutions
focus on technology focus on pedagogy
consumption interaction
courses communities
teacher oriented student centered
content management knowledge management
upload of materials authoring environment
tools intelligent assistant
institutional learning environment personal learning environment

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Your LMS should be
➢ A learning environment
➢ Easy to use
➢ Self explanatory
➢ Pre-populated
➢ Automated
➢ An information hub
➢ A communication hub
➢ Social
➢ A community
➢ Addictive

37. What do people see in your LMS?
your students?
your teachers?
other staff?
external people?

38. Werken met portfolio's
04/10/05 | pag. 39

39. Don'tinvestin(pay)walls
InvestinOpenness!

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Let's avoid the
empty box
feeling!

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Learning Object Repositories
S. Ternier et al., Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query
Language, D-Lib Magazine, 2008, Volume 14 Number 1/2, doi:10.1045/january2008-ceri

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The LMS
➢ will become
➢ the centre of learning
➢ the face of your university
➢ crucial
➢ corner stone infrastructure

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Murphy's law
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong
➢ power interruptions and surges
➢ overheating (air-conditioning failure)
➢ hardware failure
➢ network interruptions and congestions
➢ bugs
➢ broken updates
➢ unintentional deletes
➢ dirty/faulty data input
➢ security breaches
➢ viruses
➢ fire, flooding, theft

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Scale (up) adequately
Prepare for disaster recovery
Have separate test and backup setups

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Recommendations for
an open infrastructure
➢ Implement national or institutional portals and repositories for:
➢ Free Open Source Software
➢ E-learning materials
➢ Scientific publications
➢ Research data
➢ Open up and connect your Virtual Learning Environments
➢ OERs
➢ Roaming for students and staff
Share experiences and collaborate

46. Nominal group technique
What should JU do to improve e-learning?
1.Silent generation of ideas
2.Sharing ideas
3.Discussion
for clarification of ideas if needed
4.Ranked voting (priority 1, 2, 3)
5.Ranking

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Example results University of Cuenca
➢ ICT-edu training for teachers (and students)
➢ Funding for ICT-edu projects
➢ Policy for the use of ICT-edu
➢ Promote teachers that have good use of ICT
➢ Introduce ICT in curriculum, carreer, faculties
➢ Center for educational innovation and technologies
➢ Professional networks to share experiences & information
➢ Create awareness about reasons for ICT-edu use
➢ Promote evirtual, e.g. with workshops
➢ Workshops on ICT-edu
➢ Request feedback from attendance in ICT workshops
➢ Give teachers a few months training (learning) time
➢ Deadline for ICT-edu
➢ Open mind for new technologies
➢ Research about ICT-edu (tools)
➢ Project to implement ICT in the classroom with supervisors that monitor
implementation
➢ Stimulate ICT instead of manual work for course descriptions
➢ Collect statistics of availability of students computers
➢ Budget for student computers and computer labs

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