The Collaborative Educational Community for community of educators in Eritrea Institute of Technology who are collaboratively working to advance the current educational system. The ICT and E-Learning Center of the Institute has already planned to give a Professional Development Program using E-Learning and Web 2.0 to the Interested Instructors in the institute. Over 50 instructors and graduate assistants are registered for the program. The professional development program will award professional development certificate for the successfully accomplished instructors.
The program main focus is to initiate the instructors to work better to design new approach of teaching to the current students. Students being overwhelmed by the fast growing technology may not be comfortable with the today's classrooms in the institute. Therefore the program helps the Instructors to create new methods of providing educational content to our digital natives. The following is a case study given to attendants of the training so that it will help them brainstorm for their study in designing New Classroom.
The program main focus is to initiate the instructors to work better to design new approach of teaching to the current students. Students being overwhelmed by the fast growing technology may not be comfortable with the today's classrooms in the institute. Therefore the program helps the Instructors to create new methods of providing educational content to our digital natives. The following is a case study given to attendants of the training so that it will help them brainstorm for their study in designing New Classroom.
Case Study for Professional Development Program using E-Learning and Web 2.0 Colleges and Universities have a key role in promoting high quality and reliable education and the development of knowledge, but are far from being the only (or even the main) source of information and knowledge nowadays, due to the expansion of new forms of communication (most notably the Internet and world wide web). From the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), a global society arouse, and knowledge is now shared without constrains of geographic proximity and political or social barrier. The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies. As a result of the fast growing technology, media and information systems, it is obviously becoming very difficult to cope with the needs of today’s students by confining education in colleges. Many students are losing interest to learn in colleges being overwhelmed by the information created by virtual communities. As an educator of the 21st century education, how would you design your “New” classroom, your curriculum and then today’s education in general? Write papers and demonstrate your idea with the help of E-Learning and Web 2.0 Technologies.
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