Contributions to the Development of eLearning – Possibilities to Convert Teaching Activities and Materials into an Electronic Form

Abstract

<p>Predmet istraživanja&nbsp; disertacije&nbsp; je&nbsp; prikaz&nbsp; koncepata&nbsp; elektronskog&nbsp;učenja,&nbsp; opis&nbsp; potrebe,&nbsp; motivacije&nbsp; i&nbsp; metodologije&nbsp; za&nbsp; obradu&nbsp; i&nbsp; konverziju&nbsp;postojećih&nbsp; tradicionalnih&nbsp; nastavnih&nbsp; materijala,&nbsp; bez&nbsp; obzira&nbsp; na&nbsp; fizički&nbsp; oblik&nbsp; i&nbsp;sadržaj,&nbsp; u&nbsp; savremene&nbsp; i&nbsp; aktuelne&nbsp; elektronske&nbsp; didaktičke&nbsp; objekte&nbsp; (learning&nbsp;objects).&nbsp; Ideja je da&nbsp; oni&nbsp; budu kreirani tako da mogu&nbsp; biti&nbsp; kori&scaron;ćeni,&nbsp; ako&nbsp; je&nbsp;moguće i vi&scaron;e puta, u sistemima za podr&scaron;ku elektronskom učenju.&nbsp;</p><p>Drugi osnovni predmet istraživanja je opis, definisanje&nbsp; i praktična provera&nbsp;metodologije&nbsp; za razvoj saradničkih i komunikacionih ve&scaron;tina&nbsp; studenata.&nbsp;Pri prelazu iz učionice u oblast elektronskog učenja&nbsp; one se&nbsp; zamenjuju&nbsp;elektronskim aktivnostima,&nbsp; standardnim&nbsp; i uobičajenim&nbsp; delom&nbsp; sistema za&nbsp;elektronsko&nbsp; učenje.&nbsp; Analizirana&nbsp; je&nbsp; primena klasičnih aktivnosti&nbsp; Web&nbsp; 2.0&nbsp;tehnologije: foruma, chat-sistema, Wiki i blog tehnologije,&nbsp; kao i&nbsp;metodologije za on-line zadavanje, re&scaron;avanje, pregledanje&nbsp; i ocenjivanje&nbsp;individualnih i timskih zadataka.</p><p>Konačno,&nbsp; data&nbsp; je&nbsp; sistematizacija&nbsp; metodologija&nbsp; upotrebe&nbsp; elektronskih&nbsp; nastavnih&nbsp;materijala i načini opisivanja meta-modelom. Prikazani su neki od postojećih alata&nbsp;za upotrebu u elektronskom učenju, a&nbsp; predložen&nbsp; je&nbsp; model i potencijalno korisni&nbsp;<br />alati&nbsp; za&nbsp; automatizaciju&nbsp; procesa&nbsp; konverzije&nbsp; nastavnih&nbsp; materijala&nbsp; koji&nbsp; bi olak&scaron;ali&nbsp;kori&scaron;ćenje u sistemima za podr&scaron;ku elektronskom učenju.</p>

<p>The research topic involves description of eLearning concepts,&nbsp;depiction of need, motivation and methodology for processing and&nbsp;conversion of existing traditional teaching materials, regardless of their&nbsp;physical form and content, into contemporary and up-to-date electronic&nbsp;teaching material, learning objects. The idea is that these learning&nbsp;objects are created&nbsp; in such a way that they can be used, if possible also&nbsp;reused, in some of the learning management systems.</p><p>The other primary research topic is the description, definition and&nbsp;practical testing of methodologies for the development of collaborative&nbsp;and communicative skills with students. Those skills are,&nbsp; as a part of the&nbsp;transfer from the classroom to&nbsp; the field of eLearning, substituted with&nbsp;electronic activities which are the standard and usual part of learning&nbsp;management systems. Within the thesis, application of typical activities of&nbsp;<br />so-called Web 2.0 technologies: forums, chat-systems, Wiki and blog&nbsp;technology, but also methodologies for on-line assigning, solving, audit,&nbsp;and assessment of &nbsp;individual and team assignments.</p><p>Finally,&nbsp; systematization of various methodologies of digital teaching&nbsp;material use is presented, together with the methods of their depiction by&nbsp;meta-model. Examples of&nbsp; currently existing tools&nbsp; available for eLearning&nbsp;are presented and a model is suggested, together with&nbsp; the&nbsp; potentially&nbsp;useful tools that might help in automatization &nbsp;of a process of&nbsp; conversion&nbsp;of teaching materials and their use in learning management systems.&nbsp;</p>