HTW Berlin Fachbereich 4 Internationaler Studiengang Internationale Medieninformatik (Master) DIDACTM : The Didaktics of Media Winter Term 2014/15

Welcome to the Web Technology focus of the Master's program in International Media and Computing! Since eLearning, edutainment, and MOOCs are such a large part of learning media that are produced today, we will be looking at various aspects of web-based instruction.

This course is very different from courses you have taken in your Bachelor's program. I don't stand up and tell you what to think, we don't just read a book together and discuss it. Here we will be investigating various topics in the area of didaktics (I will explain my spelling the first week) and you will be called on to experience eLearning yourself, to look for information, and to discuss your results in class. I want to prepare you for your Master's Thesis, which will be much more of an individual research thesis than your Bachelor's thesis was.

The class meets Thursdays 14:00 – 15:30 in C 537.

We will be using a collaboration room in Moodle for parts of this course. You can use your HTW account to log in, if you are registered for this course in LSF you should already be able to access the room.

• Tentative schedule
• Literature and Links List
• Collaboration Room
• Exam results

Grades

The following activites will contribute to your grade

• 15 points: Learning diary: A learning diary must be kept every week, it can be kept on- or offline, but it is necessary to reflect on what you learned on this topic every week.
• 5 points: Describing your Personal Learning Environment and comparing it with the environment you are using at the end of the course. Did anything change?
• 40 points: Four sessions of taking an eLearning unit yourself, describing the experience, and giving feedback to five fellow students on their own descriptions. Ten points per session, 0-3 are the points given to you by your peers, 0-4 are given by me for the quality of your presentation and 0-3 for the quality of your feedback.
• 5 points: Developing ten multiple-choice exam questions
• 40 points: On-line Exam

The exam will be taken in Moodle. As one of your tasks you will be required to design questions on the lecture material. I will include many of my own questions, and then Moodle will choose a selection of the questions submitted for the exam. Every student will have a different exam, so it will not help to sit next to each other and take the exam! The exam will be taken on-line (but in the lab) on February 19, 2015, 14.00-15.30.

The number of points earned will result in a final grade according to the grading scale. You will note that the points listed above add up to 105 points. 95 are sufficient for a 1,0 in this course.

Taking eLearning units

I have a list of possible eLearning units available, you are encouraged to find additional units on any topics that interest you. This can include video-based, audio-based, or any sort of online instructional unit. The unit should represent approximately 90 minutes of learning.

You need to fill out a special form with your report (in addition to what you note in your learning diary, which will perhaps be more detailed) by the beginning of class, then we will discuss the experiences that you had using them.

Personal Learning Environment

During the semester you will be developing your own personal learning environment. Please first describe the environment you use at the beginning of the semester. At the end of the semester I want to have a written description of the personal learning environment that you are now using, with an evaluation of the tools that you are using, and the reasoning given for the changes you made to your environment. .

Communication

There is a forum in Moodle called "Official news" – this is for announcements to the entire group and I force everyone to be subscribed to this. There is also a forum "Questions and Discussions" – please address questions (and answers!) about this course to this forum only, as we have people from different semesters taking the course.

My social bookmarking is done on delicious, there are various tags there that you may find useful. I tweet at WeWuWiWo, occasionally I post eLearning links there.

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Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff Questions or comments: <weberwu@htw-berlin.de>

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