HTW Berlin Fachbereich 4 Internationaler Studiengang Medieninformatik (Master) Didaktics of Media Winter Term 2017/18

Welcome to the Web Technology focus of the Master's program in International Media and Computing! Since eLearning, edutainment, OERs and MOOCs (whatever they are) 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 Wednesday afternoons in C 537. Sessions will be 2 hours odd weeks, starting at 15.45 and running to 17.15, and 4 hours on even weeks from 15.45 – 19.00. Please put these times in your calendar!

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

• 10 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: We will be visiting the Online Educa on December 6. This is one of the top conferences on E-Learning, held every year in Berlin. Entrance to the exhibition is free. Please visit five exhibitors and write a paragraph about some educational tool that company offers. Feel free to praise or criticize the tool, but remain polite.
• 32 points: Four sessions of taking an eLearning unit yourself, describing the experience, and giving feedback to three four fellow students on their own descriptions. Eight points per session, 0-4 are given by me for the quality of your presentation and 0-4 for the feedback you give to other students, one point for each feedback given. If I feel you are just writing "Nice, dude!" I won't give you the point for that feedback round, though.
• 20 points: Developing a specification for an E-Learning unit on some aspect of the Wikiversum in a group
• 38 points: On-line Exam

The exam will be taken in Moodle. Moodle will choose a selection of questions for the exam. Every student will have a different exam, so it will not help to sit next to each other and peek at your neighbor! The exam will be taken on-line (but in a lab) on February 7, 2018, 15.45-17.15

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 potential 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) and upload it to Moodle by the beginning of class the evening before the class, and present it to the class (approx. 8 5 minutes) during one of our sessions. We will discuss the experiences that you had using the units. You are to choose at least three of the presentations and give your fellow student feedback on the presentation and report. You get one point for each feedback you give your peers up to 4 and 0-4 points assigned by me.

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 Pinboard, 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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