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This document summarizes information about HOWEST University College West-Flanders in Belgium. It provides details about HOWEST such as its approximately 6000 students and 838 staff members across 24 bachelor and 7 master's degree programs. It discusses Belgium's qualifications framework and the importance of e-learning and lifelong learning. The document also outlines some of the issues with e-learning in Belgium, including low success rates, and the need for teachers and programs to adapt. It provides three examples of good e-learning practices used at HOWEST.
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- 2. Nice to meetyou! Liesbeth De Blaere, Staff member HOWEST – University College West-Flandres Belgium
- 3. Who are we? E-learning in Belgium Issues concerning e-learning Examples of Belgian e-learning
- 4. • +/- 6000 students • 24 bachelor programs and 7 master programs • Architecture • Health care • Business and management • Industrial sciences and technology • Education • Social sciences • 1/12/2011 838 staff members – 470 FTE 4
- 5. Flemish qualification structure • Implementation of EQF • Qualifications: set of competences that lead to legal certificate • Education • EVC • Qualifications: base for LLL • Importance of e-learning • Level 5, 6, 7 and 8 1/12/2011 5
- 6. E-learning in practice: • Since 2006: distance education trails • Still trial and error; first technology, then pedagogy • Initiatives to cooperate with each other & with open university • Design courses together <> Coaching students in each individual institution • For whom? • Everybody, but succes rates increase: • EVC’s (earlier adopted competences) • EVK’s (earlier adopted competences) 1/12/2011 6
- 7. Issues concerning e-learning • Succes rates low (students) • Social aspects? • Activities? Course material? • Combination of work, social life, family, study… • ? • Teachers need to adjust as well • TPACK-model… 1/12/2011 7
- 8. • Needfor (more) agreements between different education programs • from 1 level to another • from 1 program to another • Technology is not the answer to everything • Don’t use it just to use it… It must “WORK”; research must show the assets
- 9. Good Practice 1 • Peer assessment tool in ELO • Dokeos Chamilo 1/12/2011 9
- 10. Good Practice 2 •Twitter as Audience Response System
- 11. Good Practice 3 • Weblectures • Skype, BigBlueButton, LYNC 1/12/2011 11
- 12. Questions? 12