The Teachers Training Material project consists of supportive
documentations and best practice guidelines for the design and execution
of shared distributed courses. The
objectives are to facilitate
future steps towards joint teaching activities among remote
universities. The material serve as an introduction to enabling
technologies for holistic online teaching and learning. It covers the
overarching aspects of distributed shared education independent of
subjects with a focus on measures to build up digital competencies and
to foster remote collaboration among students, and also approaches for
remote assessment. The material is devoted to sharing experiences and
good practices found along this project with teachers of the partner
universities, proposing digital pedagogical resources as new tools to
complement the traditional ones.
Many teachers are unfamiliar
with online teaching and have no overview of suitable online resources
(e.g. moodle, padlet, slack, etc...). Another deficit identified is
competencies in activation methods to foster collaboration among
students.
Student projects are a possible approach, but experience
shows a clear tendency towards separation. Moreover, student projects
are considerably coarse-grain measures and do not match with the
fine-grain interaction that is required for effective learning.
Properly
assessing learning progress to assure recognition and acceptance of
online achievements and certificates is a crucial aspect of remote
education. However, currently most problems of remote assessment like
e.g. remotely proctoring students during remote e-exams, or designing
suitable un-proctored exams have not been solved. Moreover, the e-exams
need to comply with the examination rules of the universities and the
law. Where this is not possible, an evolution of the rules towards
enabling remote assessments should be sought. Therefore, research,
design and test of remote shared assessment between the partner
universities was made an important element of the SEEDS proposal. The
outcome of the joint research, design and test effort of the consortium
is summarized to a Best Practice Guideline for universities and
government.
The result immediately targets the teachers of the
participating universities that have already embarked on a course shared
education. However, it also targets the community of teachers and
internationalization staff of the educational domain, who are addressed
through dissemination and communication activities.