Online course as an encouraging tool for didactic use of ICT in higher education

Jedrinović, Sanja (author), Luštek, Anja (author), Ferk Savec, Vesna (author)

The technology has spread to various fields, including the field of education. In this area, questions arise as to how to combine information and communication technology (ICT) for learning and teaching purposes, with innovative teaching methods. For the purpose of informing higher education teachers about innovative teaching methods that support the use of ICT in the pedagogical process, different online courses were prepared at University in Ljubljana within the project "Digital UL - With Innovative Use of ICT to Excellence". This paper presents findings from the evaluation of an online course entitled Didactic use of ICT in the process of teaching and learning, that has been administered to 55 higher education teachers of the University of Ljubljana in two implementations during Spring 2019. The data was collected with a questionnaire, followed by the analysis of the teachers ‘reports of redefined study activities that the participants developed at the end of the course. The results suggest that higher education teachers found the added value of the course, however it was especially emphasized that they gained new experiences for the work with the use of ICT, new ideas in the field of innovative teaching supported with ICT, as well as the new knowledge in the field of innovative teaching. Regarding the criteria for selecting the specific ICT in support of the pedagogical process, it was found that teachers were prone to choosing the ICT that enabled them to support the development of students’ higher levels of thinking according to Bloom’s taxonomy. It was also found that with the online course the teachers were encouraged to redefine their study activities on different SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) levels, mostly on the modification and redefinition levels. It can be concluded, that the online course Didactic use of ICT in the process of teaching and learning encouraged the majority of the involved higher education teachers to plan the didactic use of ICT with the aim of achieving development of the higher cognitive processes among students. Based on the course evaluation its further optimization is foreseen.

• Language: English
• Keywords: information technology, higher education
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: 17 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-113115
• UDC: 37.091.6:378
• ISSN on article: 1613-0073
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12689481
• Publication date in RUL: 09.12.2019

Record is a part of a proceedings

• Title: Innovative approaches to the application of digital technologies in education and research
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12687689

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEUR workshop proceedings
• Shortened title: CEUR workshop proc.
• Publisher: CEUR-WS Team, Redaktion Sun SITE, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen
• ISSN: 1613-0073
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12740630

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: didaktika, spletni tečaji, spletno učenje, informacijska tehnologija