Experience in using eLearning technologies in the teaching process Dragan Janković Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia

Outlines eLearning ??? Internet courses Course portals Tools - eTools TMP portal Student projects organization - overview Future plans 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

eLearning??? eLearning – “definition” Distance learning - “definition” Life long learning - “definition” mLearning - “definition” Teleteaching - “definition” eEducation – “definition” Computer based training - “definition” … 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Computer supported learning / based Goal / goals ??? 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Internet courses 3 years ago Elective courses (9 th semester) Only one of three Internet courses Internet courses: Advanced techniques in Image processing Introduction to Fuzzy logic Advanced techniques in Logic design 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

“A picture is worth a thousand words” 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Internet courses - summary About 30% of 9 th semester students choose internet courses Final results – average mark about 9 Students fill questionnaire at the end of course Some of students need extra consultations, material, exercises, etc. Blended eLearning is better choice 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Course portals The most courses at Department of Computer Science Some of courses at the other departments Contents: usually the same The form of portals - quite different CS Department – LMS Moodle LMS Knowledge Presenter 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Equipments tCube – generation of multimedia materials Smart board Videoconferencing system:  Sony  Audio system  Projectors Example of material produced by t-Cube system rm rm 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

e-Tools Tools are used for: demonstration in teaching process, labs, home works, etc Some of them are commercial products, open source solutions, etc. A lot of them are our tools developed with the aim to help a students A number of student projects and diploma works as a result have some teaching tools 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Mixing tool (automatic control) 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

SimArch

TMP course make a team may propose some project (teachers also give a list of projects) apply for some project (competition process, introduce themselves, CVs, knowledge, experience, proposal for project plan, etc ) for allowed project: to prepare documentation according to the RUP methodology C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\NIOnet.lnk C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\NIOnet.lnk  Vision of system  Use-case specification  Project architecture  Detailed system project  Project plan  Testing plan  Testing report  User manual  Installation guide  Release notes  etc. make a program submit the hard copy of documentation / upload electronic version submit Floppy, CD or DVD ready for automatic installation software must have online Help, nice envelope, etc must to defend project (open day for project demonstration) 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006 Students should :

RUP methodology helper 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

TMP Portal Users: students and teachers Functionalities:  Team generation  Project competition  Applications overview  Upload – download  Messaging system  Portal administration 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Activity diagram of simplified user- portal interaction 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Results??? Software - some of them at commercial product level Often Diploma thesis 1..\..\Prodekan\Prezentacije\elfakFlashFinal\ElektronskiFakultet.exe

Further work TMP portal is also the student project Deficiencies:  Time table for documentation upload  There is no document management system with CVS  There is no project examples on TMP portal Future work:  Redesign of TMP portal  Collection of all finished projects (task description, team description, documentation, demo, source, …)  Include questionaries  etc. 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Future work in eEducation direction The more intensive work on development of a new eLearning courses Unification of all courses and portals through unique Moodle application All e-contents must be according to the SCORM standard Collaboration with other faculties in Nis through University eLarning center and with other universities Center for permanent education (eLearning, distance learning and Life long learning) 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Answer What is our goal? 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Teaching process … 21 century 21 century goal 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006

Thank you for your attention! 6 th Workshop Software Engineering Education and Reverse Engineering – Ravda 2006