Experiences from the BL Pilot Course - Tutors’ views Pilot course at the Viikki Teacher Training School / Helsinki University Merja Auvinen & Ari Myllyviita

1. What is Quality
in Blended Learning?
Experiences from the BL Pilot Course
Tutors’ views
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2. Viikki Teacher Training School
Helsinki University
Tasks of a teacher training school in Finland:
• Basic Education (grades 1-9)
• Secondary Education (grades 10-12)
• Teacher Training (Class teachers & Subject teachers) in
cooperation with the universities
• Research and research-based teacher training
• In-service teacher training
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3. Blended Learning platforms and tools used in
Basic and Secondary Education and Teacher
training in our school:
• Moodle
• PedaNet
• Facebook
• EDU2.0
• Google Applications for
Education GAFE
• Office 365
• Edmodo
• Wikispaces
• Blogs
• Wilma
• Kyvyt.fi (e-portfolio)
• Classroom-based
distance education
since 1995 (Helsinki &
Kilpisjärvi, Lapland)
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4. QBL Pilot Course
• January – May 2015
• Ten participants from
different cities in Finland:
- one school head
- one class teacher
- one spec educ teacher
- one ICT coordinator
- six subject teachers
. Four tutors
• Platforms and tools offered
and chosen by the
participants:
• Blogs
• PedaNet
• GAFE
• Wikis -> Office 365
• Edmodo
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5. EFQM – Quality system for education
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7. The quality in Blended Learning
• Leadership – how to manage the group
• How manage with people – choose wisely the
communication tool – should it be the one you want to
learn to use
• Policy – do what you need to do, not something else
• Check all resources you need – what students need
• The process is based on the context of the real world
• You have to try what you are studying (BL)
• Don´t try just ”something”, make the real thing
• Make your own timetable
• THEN WE HAVE RESULTS
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8. The Structure of the Pilot Course
• process = quality
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9. The Quality Fields /Wiener Neustadt
• 1) Institution Quality
• 2) Enrollment
• 3) The Course
• 4) The Learning Environment
• 5) Assessment and Evaluation
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10. Pre-course activities (December – January)
• Planning the course
(coordinators, project
participants, tutors-to-
be)
• Advertising the course
• Choosing the
participants
• Pre-course
questionnaire to the
participants (slide)
• Comparing and
choosing the best (or
the optimal) online
learning platform (slide)
• Teaching the use of
Edmodo to all the
tutors
• Designing and
developing the course
in detail
• Delivering the pre-
material (slide)
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11. Pre-course questionnaire to the participants
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12. Comparing and choosing the best (or the
optimal) online learning platform
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13. Delivering the pre-material
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14. 1) Face-to-face day 1 (Jan 26)
• Introductions to the QiBL Project and the Work
Packages
• The quality criteria in blended learning - discussion
• A Webinar on the Experiences on Blended Learning
Courses (University of Applied Science, Utrecht)
• Using different online tools in the classroom, case
studies / the trainers/tutoring teachers
• How to use the Edmodo platform?
• Working in the tutor groups
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15. WP 5 Quality Criteria for tutoring + materials:
• Agreeing on the practical issues of the online period,
based on the quality criteria defined
• The initial plans for the participants’ own BL courses
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16. 2) Online working period (Jan to May)
• A clearly structured programme (slide)
• The participants carry out their own teaching
experiments step by step
• Frequent discussions with tutors
• Tutor support – group support
• Cooperation
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17. A clearly structured programme, the
language group
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18. • a video lecture on copyright issues given by an
expert (asynchronous) followed by a webinar with
the lecturer answering the participants’ questions
(synchronous)
• A PP presentation on Edmodo on the role of ICT in
the new curriculum reform in Finland
(asynchronous) followed by online discussion in the
small groups)
• Process - quality
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19. Webinar - online - synchronous
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20. 3) Face-face-day 2 (May 16)
Fri 15 May 2014 9.30 am to 4 pm
Presenting the teaching experiments (the rticipants),
self-evaluation and valuation of the course
Participants’ interviews
Quality BL criteria re-evaluated
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21. Evaluation of the Pilot Course 1/3
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22. Evaluation of the Pilot Course 2/3
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23. Evaluation of the Pilot Course 3/3
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24. Evaluating the quality criteria 1/5
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25. Evaluating the quality criteria 2/5
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26. Evaluating the quality criteria 3/5
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27. Evaluating the quality criteria 4/5
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28. Evaluating the quality criteria 5/5
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29. THANK YOU!
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