...this knowledge, described by Lombardo (2007) as “understanding the big picture” and “deep learning ”, that causes wise men to say they know that they don’t know. It is thi...
...means that it has the ability to create something within a structure. Furthermore, he did he not understand learning as a the act of practiced individual activities, but as learning of production for ...
...mic negotiations about their planning. The leadership commented that “the system is in the process of learning this in the moment” (FU Chancellor 3), it became clear that, while some depar...
...opriate internet based innovations. The conditions of the universities are compared looking at the use of e-learning , mailing lists, online video and audio content, as well as more advanced services s...
... entities for the exploitation of these opportunities. For technology innovation the LSE has the Centre for Learning Technology (CLT), the FU has the CeDiS, the UPC has ICE and the innovation un...
...tion has been mandated to identify and appropriate internet based innovations meant to improve teaching and learning . The team is quite well supplied and has managed to attract substantive funding fro...
...rmous innovative accomplishment. Over the years many features have been added, today it is a highly complex learning and communication platform. Unfortunately, development was largely discontinued aft...
...C is not included in many evaluations. However, as is described in the paragraphs dealing with teaching and learning , UOC was quite successful in the rankings it did enter into. In 2004, it received a...
3.4.7.1. E-Learning
Tools Integration (Technology)
As touched upon in the section on UOC’s IT history and approach, the university has a lean model of technology developm
...ive’, etc., that were introduced and, in the beginning, caused problems with the professors and the e-learning consultants. She states also that it did not take long before the students got the ...
...ogy has played in the functioning of the UOC, the organization has always stressed that the student’s learning itself, and not the medium of its transmission, was deservedly at the centre of its...
...ices in their educational development, the university’s official mandate is understood to be offering learning opportunities for adults interested in continuing their education. Many students ar...
...mind. (See the business model for an analysis of the economic- and organisational-aspects, as well as the e-learning platforms for the pedagogical and technological aspects of the UOC model).
Pr...
... was the first university to offer certified university degrees exclusively through internet based distance learning . After focusing the first years on teaching only, in 2000 a research centre was ope...
.... Such strict budgetary control doesn’t allow for experimentation, innovative research ideas or learning projects to adequately mushroom.
One critique expressed by an informant...
...society” (BSC web)
3.3.12.4. Dynamics of Open Source e-Learning Platform
The knowledge entrepreneurial ventures (developed by software developme...
3.3.10.1. Teaching and Learning Results
The UPC is evaluated in national and international university rakings and quite a positive impression remains (see table 1). The newspaper
...06b). This indicator measures the availability of wireless network connection, library access, and use of e-learning . For the period of 2002-2004 the UPC received satisfactory results twice and very s...
...ost important element of Catalonian culture.
3.3.7.4. Strategy & Organizational Learning
The UPC developed its first holistic strategic plan in 1995 as result of quality ...
...he UPC computer scientists enjoy their own separate intra-net and continuously experiment with innovative e-learning solutions. It should also be noted that it was a software development professor who...
...Another interesting venture at the UPC is its Fundacio institution which offers post-graduate and life-long learning courses at competitive market prices. Even though the Fundacio was founded more tha...
...ement, including innovation, is outsourced to the wholly-owned spin-off, “UPCnet” The spread of learning technology is entrusted to the Institute for the Science of Education (ICE). The li...
...y, by encouraging wide spread stakeholder ownership by providing opportunities – facilitated by the e-learning consultants and the in-house funding- for faculty to look for needs that can be sat...
...as not exclusively the transfusion of specialized knowledge but encouraged instead competencies like active learning , collaboration, as well as the “fomentation of independent, critical thinking...
...d almost all Professors do have a personal website.
3.2.8.1. Teaching and Learning
In general a positive trend for the FU can be observed looking at the assessment...
3.2.7.1. e-learning
Tools Integration (Technology)
In line with the FU’s decentralist traditions, individual departments started to experiment with e-learning on their ow
...alize opportunities, and produce very good results for example in the area of internet based innovations (e-learning : Dr. Apostolopoulos, spin-offs: Prof. Schiller, and research: Prof. Perchelt)
...
..., as can be seen by observing its staff and budget growth rate, a very dynamic institution specialized on e-learning and multi-media production. The library runs quite a substantial part of its servic...
...oyees (FTE), plus 600 hours of student assistant jobs per month (FU web). CeDiS the centre specialized on e-learning employs the equivalent of 35 full time people . Its entrepreneurial style is reflec...
... In 2000 the FU creates, together with eight Berlin universities, a spin-off company for the marketing of e-learning (multimedia) products (web). In 2003 the FU receives the “entrepreneurial thi...
