Digital Education in Politehnica University of Timisoara, by Dr. Diana Andone, eLearning Center, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania presentation as keynote to EDEN 2020 International Conference, 22 June 2020, on Digitisation, Digitalisation and Digital Transformation, the projects that supported it , Virtual Campus of UPT, virtual mobilities, OERs and MOOCS, students as co-creators

1. Digital Education in Politehnica
University of Timisoara
Dr. Diana Andone
eLearning Center
Politehnica Universitatea Timișoara, Romania – UPT
@diando70 EDEN 2020 Timisoara, virtual, 22-24 June 2020

4. Is the University ready for
Digital Transformation?
Are we ‘fit for the future’?

6. Digitisation
Core

7. Digitisation - Core
Learning Management System
Learning Record Stores
Content Management and Curation
Degree & Curriculum management
Attendance Monitoring
Learning Experience
MOOC Platform
Website
Social media channels

8. CVUPT – Virtual Campus Development
Initiated in 2006 on Moodle
Personalised by UPT Team
New modules integrated
Translation
Campus Virtual (www.cv.upt.ro)

9. University Virtual Campus – cv.upt.ro
Moodle
Mobile app

10. Proiect ViCaDiS
Virtual Campus for
Digital Students
(2007 -2009)
Open LMS (Moodle)
Web 2.0
OER
Virtual mobilities

11. 11
UniCampus - Romanian MOOC
oInitiated by the Elearning Center of Politehnica
University of Timisoara, Romania since 2014
o90% of Romanian Universities use Moodle
oHigh Internet penetration and mobile use
oLow postgraduate training in Romania (17% of
workforce in 2015)
oMobile app

13. UniCampus OEW2016 - video

14. Digitisation
Content
Skills

15. e-Learning Center – research and development - CeL
Elearning.upt.ro
over 25 projects, EU funded, Europe, USA, China, Canada
Over 8 mil Euro

16. e-Learning Center – research and development - CeL
Since 1998

17. e-Learning Center – research
and development - CeL
• 54 universities
• 36 companies
• 27 NGOs
• Partner 4 international
associations

18. Digitisation: Content, Skills - Projects
2010 – 2013 DidaTec - training in digital educational technologies
• Distance education post-university degree
• 13 universities, over 1200 academics trained
• 300 UPT academics

19. Digitisation: Content, Skills - Projects
ABCtoVLE Erasmus+ Project

20. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License
@ABCtoVLE
https://abc-ld.org/abc-to-vle/
Practice
Acquisition
Collaboration
DiscussionInvestigation
Production
M
O
O
C
assignment
Virtual patients
Virtual labs
models
Open textbooks
eportfolios
Audio books
SCORM
SCORM
SCORM
podcasts
infographics
ABCtoVLE Erasmus+ project - UPT
ABCtoVLE Tools
H5P interactive Diagram
Webpage with tools tutorials
Video

21. ABCtoVLE Erasmus+ project - UPT
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/project/abc-to-vle-
beyond-curriculum-design-2

22. Digitisation: Skills
Workshops,
Conferences
Workshops
Opening Up Education – since 2014
Digital Competences – since 2013
GirlsTech – since 2016
International conferences
500 participants

23. Digitisation: Content
Interactive
(H5P, Quiz/test in Moodle)
~ 20.000 new resources

25. Digitalisation
Digital Education Eco-system
Collaboration
Co-creators

26. Todaystudentswilllearnindependentanddigitalalltheirlife
OPEN life long learning STUDENT
21stcenturyskills/
futureskills
Aretheyreadyto identify,access,learn,analyse,apply,practicenewknowledgeacrossdifferentmedia,
information,communication,toolsastoenhancetheirskillsanddeveloptheircareers?

27. Virtual
Mobilities
HowtodevelopOpenlife-longlearningstudents
forthe21st centurysociety?
MOOC
Virtual
Campus
OER

28. OER & MOOC elements,
resources in a course
Use as external resources
Bibliography
Retrieval learning
Live, face to face
discussions
Correct identification of
resources
OER&MOOCs–BlendedLearning/FlippedClassroom
MOOC courses credit
recognition
Integrating a full MOOC
course in curricula
National Quality Standard
Assessment and
certification
Credit transfer
Integration MOOC& OER in
course
Group, project, lab activity
Full MOOC course
Participation in global
learning communities
Live, face to face
discussions
Assessment and
certification
Since 2015

29. Digitalisation: Co-creators - Assignments
disposable assignments: literally throwing away 2 million hours of work
each semester
renewable assignments: projects, artifacts, lab, companies, OER / to be
adapted each year

30. Students
OER
creators
Students will
create an OER
based on a specific
topic (2 students in
a team)
Understand,
research, analyse
for a dedicated
topic
Use multimedia
creator tools
Understand Open
education
principles, Creative
Commons Licences
Peer evaluation -
Validated by their
colleagues

31. Digitalisation: Co-creators – Assignments - OERs
Students
• new tools, concepts
• Analyses, synthesis, creation,
presentation, publish, re-use - CC
Course integration

32. Digitalisation: Co-creators – Assignments - OERs
Publication
Recogntion
Articole științifice
Blog
Prezentări publice
Articol Newsletter

33. OERs

34. Digitalisation: Co-creators - Assignments

35. Digitalisation
Collaboration
Virtual mobilities

36. TalkTech 2008 -2019 Students
1250 students involved, no dropout
Boston, Bentley Univ
Intro to Information Technology
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 19-22
Timisoara, UPT
Multimedia Technologies
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 21-22
International Virtual Mobilities

37. Motivation
Entrepreneurship
Virtual mobility – learn, work online with limited supervision
Global workspace environment
Multicultural
Digital skills
International Collaboration
Open Education

38. Liberty Square,
Timisoara
AR (cospaces)
VR (Aurasma)
38
TalkTech
2017 Students

39. Disclaimer: The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under
grant no. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003494. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible
for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.
Designing the Virtual Mobility Learning
Hub for Higher Education in Europe
http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu

40. Course implementation
Open Virtual Mobility | www.openvirtualmobility.eu | @openVM_erasmus
24 courses to get ready for Virtual mobilities

41. Open Virtual Mobility | www.openvirtualmobility.eu | @openVM_erasmus
Open Credentials to recognise virtual mobility skills
Opening the skill recognition!

42. Digitalisation
Digital Education Eco-system
UPT Remote education

43. Digital Education Eco-system - UPT Remote education
Politehnica University of Timișoara
Plan & Strategy in 13 March 2020
Methodologies, guides, training,
support
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/comunit
ate/noutati-comunitate/de-la-
educatia-in-campus-la-cea-online/

44. Digital Education Eco-system - UPT Remote education
Virtual Campus of UPT
Microsoft Teams
Zoom

45. Students evaluation
& finals
Multiple choice
Portfolio
Wiki Collaborative (wikipedia)
Debate online (asynchronous – synchronous)
Vlog - Blog - Podcast
Online Presentation
Group project
Hacktahon
Video – OERs
Glossary
Reflective journal
Peer assessment

46. Digitalisation: Digital Education Eco-system
CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
evaluation

47. Digitalisation: Digital Education Eco-system
CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
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Wiki Questionnaire Choice Glossary H5P VPL

49. Digitalisation: Digital Education Eco-system
CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus

50. Digitalisation: Support
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/campus-virtual/
38 training and support webinars
43 h

51. Digitalisation: Support
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/campus-virtual/
43 tutorials and Guides
40% partially created by
students
15% by other UPT
colleagues
14 external tools tutorials
and guides
5000 messages (tickets)
(highest 320/day)

54. Digital Transformation
Academic Culture changes
Learning transformation

55. https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/impreuna-online/

56. Academic Culture changes
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30%
3%66%
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Company
Ministry of Education
andResearch
Pre-university
Student
University
12%
10%
17%
9%19%
10%
6%
5%
7%5%
Participants
Webinar 1
Webinar 2
Webinar 3
Webinar 4
Webinar 5
Webinar 6
Webinar 7
Webinar 8
Webinar 9
57%
8%
30%
1%4%
How do you rate the webinar?
Very useful
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Useful
Not useful at all
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2807 registrations
2200 participants
62 institutions

57. Academic Culture changes
Impreuna Online – Open badge
30 BADGES 2,241 AWARDS

58. Discover
GHID
RESURSE
CURS Online

59. Discover
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/open/
GHID
RESURSE
CURS Online

60. Digital Transformation: Academic Culture
changes
“…Thank you for everything you do for us during this period to keep us
together and to keep a meaning, a direction, I would even say a hope..”
a UPT professor, digital reluctant

62. Be different!
Renovate the Core
Explore the New

63. Contact
Dr. Diana Andone
Director
e-Learning Center
Politehnica University ofTimisoara
Romania
Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
Elearning.upt.ro/diana.andone
@diando70
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
EDEN Fellow 2011, EDEN Vice-president
IEEE Romania Education Chair,
IEEE Computer Society, TCLT Open Chair
IEEE Education and Women in Engineering
EDEN 2020 Timisoara, virtual, 22-24 June 2020
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/
Elearning.upt.ro
cv.upt.ro
Unicampus.ro