competences for collaboration and knowledge sharing in digital society

COMPETENCES FOR COLLABORATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN DIGITAL SOCIETY

A case study with an Erasmus Intensive Programme

INTED2014Valencia, Spain

10-12 March 2014

Inês Messias | Ana LoureiroSchool of Education - Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal

Inês Messias | Ana Loureiro | INTED2014



New Student’s Profile

Use simultaneously diverse types of media

More Proactive

Web 2.0 & 3.0

State of the art



Communication evolution & New Media

Live conferencing

Video sharing

Social Networking

Collaborative tools

Allow:• To contribute to the

web

• Work collaboratively

• Direct communication with peers and teachers

• Create a PLE or a PLN

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P.L.E. (Personal Learning Environment)

Responsible for managing, selecting the tools and

the contexts of their own learning environment.

Students become…

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PLEs agregate

Live conferencing

Video sharing

email

bookmarking

RSS feeds

Websites of interest

pinboards

Digital portfolios

Personal website

Collaborative tools

Social Networking

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students need to develop and enhance…• Information literacy • E-skills • Soft skills • Social skills

Research

Select

Reflect

Collaborate

Create

ShareGather information

LearnAchieve Knowledge

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e-Business

Skills

ICT practitioner skills

ICT user Skills

Digital Literacy

Capabilities needed to exploit opportunities provided by ICT, ensuring more efficient and effective performance in conducting and/or

establishing new business

Capabilites required to research, develop, design, plan, manage, produce, consult, maintain and

support ICT Systems

Capabilities required to an effective application of ICT Systems and devices

to support work, by using common software tools as they cover “digital

literacy”.




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State of the art

“all learning activity undertaken throughout

life, with the aim of improving knowledge,

skills and competences, within a personal,

civic, social and/or employment-related

perspective” (E.C., 2003)

research




State of the art

Change in Education…

Traditional teaching + VLE or PLE/PLNVirtual Learning

Environment

Change in the teacher’s role… To give students networking competencies




Where How What

Information to select

Teachers’ role

Competences to understand

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Allows more

conectivity &

socialization

Focused

on the self

Allows

sharing

with a

broader

communit

y

Allows

independe

nt learning

(acording

to our own

needs)

[described as the learning theory for the digital age]

Connectivism

Motivation

By creating their own personal networks, and engaging in different services, communities, groups and networks, according with their needs, interests, likes and motivations, students are leading us into a modern learning approach: Connectivism.

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The e-skills IP

Partnership

Portugal – coordinator (Instituto Politécnico de Santarém)

Denmark (UC Syddanmark)

Germany (Paedagogische Hochschule Schwaebisch Gmuend)

Romania (Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara)

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+

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18 students

4 teachers

The target group were higher education (HE) students (social work, health, teacher training - primary, ICT secondary teachers).




The e-skills IP

ObjectivesProvide students with digital literacy competences for a networked society in six steps:

1. Identification of students’ competencies in ICT;

2. Present students with different available collaboration tools by exploring the web 2.0;

3. Selection of specific tools to create students' personal learning environments (PLE);

4. Acquire necessary knowledge to master the selected tools;

5. Work collaboratively with the web 2.0 tools;

6. Establish methods for instruction and course design based on Web 2.0 (teacher education) with the goal to integrate technology enhanced learning and individual knowledge management in educational processes.




The e-skills IPOutcomes

Students should be able to use, master and select the most adequate web 2.0 tools to create and manage a PLE.

Also:

1. Scientific papers – to disseminate the project results;

2. Blog - to help students and tutors to create, develop and maintain a community of practice around the IP course theme;

3. Seminar with plenary and poster sessions - students have the opportunity to present their work to the community;




The e-skills IPOutcomes

4. Define a set of web 2.0 collaborative tools (e-skills pack) to serve as a model to other students interested in collaborative work in digital society; the e-skills pack will be prepared to serve as training module so that in the future more teachers can use it with their students in classroom and workshop situations;

5. Wiki (as a community of practice);

6. Website of the IP [http://eskills-ip.weebly.com/].


http://eskills-ip.weebly.com/

http://eskills-ip.weebly.com/



The e-skills IPMethodology

1. Coherence – background and prerequisites;2. Goals – what will we achieve;3. Signs – how do we see hear or sense that we are on the way towards the goal;4. Actions – what will we do to reach the goal. After every practical lesson with some ITC tool, each

student was invited to produce short essay, using Wordpress, showing what they understood and they could use that specific tool for their PLE. Their work was then assessed by a teacher or a group of fellow students as respondents. In the end all their essays were collect in Wordpress, as digital logbook (a blog), shared with the teachers, and which can later be published after the IP course.

5. Evaluation – students' outcomes were assessed by teachers by reading the essays on Wordpress and analysing the developed materials. Also the students were given a questionnaire about their expected and real outcome in ICT, in European understanding, their own work attitude and how they expect to utilize the outcome of the IP in the near future.

Based in a Danish model called SMTTE to assess whether students have achieved the intended learning outcomes, it translates in English to CGSAE which stands for:




The e-skills IPMethodology

Curricular activities – 6h30 per day during 14 days (except 2 afternoons for social activities)

Full contact81,6 hours + Pre-course

10 hours + Follow up20 hours

http://eskills-ip2013.weebly.com/workshops.html






The e-skills IPSelected tools:

• Wordpress – Logbook to register each day experiences and impressions;

• Scoopit, Slideshare, Pinterest - Content Curation: search, make sense, share;

• Pixlr & Animoto – Image: edit, create, share;

• Smilebox - Invitations, Collages, Slideshows and Scrapbooks;

• Google Drive – Collaborative work tool to create and share online documents, presentations and spread sheets;

• Wix - Website creation;

• Prezi – Collaborative cloud based

presentations;

• Mendeley – Referencing managing to collect, organize and share;

• Storyjumper – storytelling;

• Piktochart - Infographics: data visualisation;

• Facebook, G+ & Twitter - social networks for online socialization, communication and interaction;

• Netvibes – content aggregator: personalized homepage to allocate and access the selected tools.




The e-skills IPResults:

Aims and objectives of the IP achieved Romanian partner: This IP allowed students to incorporate ICT in their future work

since that in their own country they don't have ICT tools in their curricula.

German partner: Students were used to work with the ICT in a standard national way and with the IP they had the chance to contact with new tools and learn how to use and apply it to their professional needs.





Positive impact in the participants

Digital, language and social skills enhanced

“Well organized IP, a wonderful country, very nice people, very good

teachers. I have been very pleased with everything”; “I think that this IP

was very good. Personally, believe that it was too much hours of teaching,

but I like very much the teachers.”





Evaluators have considered it:

“as a good example of a course that could be continued enabling an

application to strategic partnerships in the next Erasmus+”

Leading to…

e-skills IP 2014 edition in Universitatea de Vest Timisoara (Romania)

29 March to 15 April 2014

5 teachers and 18 students




The e-skills IP

IP e-skills 2013 edition Links:

IP e-skills Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckj28_DHDJs

IP e-skills Photos - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=eskillsip

IP e-skills webite - http://eskills-ip2013.weebly.com/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckj28_DHDJs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckj28_DHDJs

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=eskillsip

http://eskills-ip2013.weebly.com/



The e-skills IP

Ana Loureiro - is an Assistant Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Santarém & a Researcher at Research Centre Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers (CIDTFF/University of Aveiro) in the field of Communication, media & Digital and virtual environments in education. She holds a Ph.D in the Scientific Areas of Didactic, Communication Sciences and Technologies. Her main research interests include digital and information literacy, e-learning, TEL, virtual worlds and web 2.0 tools for collaborative and social learning (with an impact in lifelong learning and adults learners).

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Inês Messias - is a Lecturer at Polytechnic Institute of Santarém and a member of the Investigation Unit of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém (UIIPS) – research field: Distance education. She is a PhD Student a Lisbon Open University, currently researching in the field of Educational Sciences, with a focus on e-learning. Holds a Master degree in Communicational and Educational Multimedia and a Graduated in Education.

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