Electronic content in education «Media culture» with(out) media? Marina Čizmić Horvat Predrag...

Electronic content in education

«Media culture» with(out) media?

Marina Čizmić Horvat

Predrag Gjuro Kladarić

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Content

• e-learning on the Faculty

• «Media culture» courselectures, seminars, online

• student activities

• online activities logs

• expected future

mobile phones off, please

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We are

Marina Čizmić Horvat

Department of Information Sciences

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ivana Lučića 3, Zagreb, Croatia

mfruk@ffzg.hr

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We are

Predrag Gjuro KladarićIT Services, Faculty of Humanities and Social

Sciences

Ivana Lučića 3, Zagreb, Croatia

gjuro@ffzg.hr

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e-learning on the Faculty

• In the academic year 2005/2006 we started a new elective course named «Media Culture» for the first year students of Information Sciences and for the other interested students.

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e-learning on the Faculty

• Electronic contents in the study of Information Sciences at the faculty have successfully been used for a long time as an essential part of the teaching process.

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e-learning on the Faculty

• E-learning systems started in 2002. A system named Moodle was chosen because of its features and has been in use since 2005 with great success.

• Particular implementation of Moodle on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb operates under name Omega because name Moodle badly functions in Croatian.

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«Media Culture» course

• «Media Culture» as the course was organized in total of fifteen meetings in the semester - we met once a week, one period of lecture and one of seminar.

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«Media Culture» course

• We prefer learning in an active way, because it is more effective than a passive receiving of information.

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lectures, seminars, online

• This kind of learning and practicing competence requires a new form of didactic, which is not a scholastic one, meaning a passive acquiring of the necessary information.

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lectures, seminars, online

• We want the student to be active, to choose the theme and the way of the presentation of his personal experience with the media.

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lectures, seminars, online

• The traditional classroom teaching is now replaced by the new way of learning, which means developing competences and collecting information and knowledge concerning current problems.

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lectures, seminars, online

• This kind of learning is more an actualization of knowledge from different data bases, than learning for future, or collecting knowledge for possible cognitive challenges.

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lectures, seminars, online

• This kind of teaching demands new specific conditions: limited number of students in a group, large amounts of lessons and the appropriate electronic environment.

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«Media Culture»

• The course «Media Culture» includes two different types of knowledge – the knowledge of the subject itself focusing on traditional and digital media and the knowledge of one's personal experience with the media.

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«Media Culture» course

• The teacher will make students more sensitive to the media - they should become aware of them and develop critical appreciation of the media position in their life today.

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student activities

• Most of the students chose the presentation. The presenters and the class showed great interest in such presentations and the discussions were sometimes quite heated and full of controversial opinions.

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student activities

• The students varied in their competence in using computer technology. They ranged from real beginners to cyber kids, total computer addicts. Because of that the problems which arose while preparing the presentation were very different.

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student activities

• Different levels of technological equipment sometimes even caused unpleasant situations when some groups felt being discriminated against.

• The reasons were: the modest electronic environment at the faculty, too many students in a group and insufficient number of lessons.

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Omega numbers (http://omega.ffzg.hr)

• 2007 Omega numbers for online content:200+ teachers (out of 450+)23 departments (out of 23)220+ courses (out of 2700+)3300+ students (out of 6000+)

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Omega numbers (http://omega.ffzg.hr)

• departments with most e-courses: Information Sciences, 69 coursesEnglish, 22 coursesHistory, 20 coursesSociology, 19 coursesCroatian Language, 15 courses

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online activities logsRaw Log Data

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online activities logsMedium Raw Log Data

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online activities logs

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Number of resource views

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1Medijska kulturaAnime - Bolkovac, Ledić

Reklame - Piršljin, Ruklić, UremovićFilm - Bogdanić, Presečki, Pavlovski

Uloga medija u psihologiji potrošnje - TežakAnimirani film - Trampuž, Žužak

Compact disc - Borovac, MoguljakE-mail - Horvacki, Turković

Pismo - Jasenko, Sontaki, Srbljinović, VidovićTV program - Meštrović, Tomić

Chat - Carić, Vajda, HodakSitcom - Latin

Fotografija - Cukor, Jazvić, PiplovićFilm - Delišimunović, Jantolek

Knjiga - Hruban, VukojaNosači zvuka - Škrabo, Vajda

Računalne igre - UrekOnline igre - Orešković, Radošević

Grafiti kao izlog subkulture - Jakšić...Strip - Prahin

Televizija - Lončarević, TadićStrip - Horvat

Računala - Arambašić

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current state & expected future

• online availability of learning resources is much better than several years ago

• Omega system encourages production of digital learning materialproduced in a standard way available at a standard place usable in a standard way

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current state & expected future

• although e-learning made huge advancement in recent years...electronic content is still NOT

available in optimal amount and quality

students and teachers are still not proficient with IT

there are technical and classroom space restrictions

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current state & expected future

• We have a dream: smaller groups, better conditions concerning the equipment, reciprocal help, active anticipation in occasional projects at the faculty and «Media culture» with media.

• New library building is expected to free significant amount of space in the old building that will be available for space and technological improvements

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«Media culture» with(out) media?

Thank you

Marina Čizmić Horvatmfruk@ffzg.hr

Predrag Gjuro Kladarićgjuro@ffzg.hr