Elearning at Warsaw University Popularization and Implementation

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E-learning at Warsaw UniversityPopularization
and Implementation

• Aneta Nowak, Maria WilkinCentre for Open and
  Multimedia Education
• Warsaw University, Poland
• www.come.uw.edu.pl

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TOPICE-learning at Warsaw UniversityPopularizat
ion and Implementation

• Warsaw University who are we?
• E-learning how we make use of it
• Popularization how we promote the idea
• Implementation our way
• Future...

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Warsaw University who are we?
60 000 students
18 faculties 24 interfaculty units
93 buildings 3 main campuses About 7
000 e-students (2000-2005)
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Warsaw University who are we?

• Conditions of operating
• State-owned university
• Many units with high autonomy
• Buildings are dispersed
• Focus on local issues
• Lack of co-operation

• Demands
• To increase interdisciplinary character of the
  studies
• To increase flexibility
• To make reasonable use of e-learning
• The University authorities want to increase
  co-operation between the faculties

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COME to Warsaw University!
COME Centre for Open and Multimedia Education

• Warsaw University Unit responsible for promoting
  and implementing e-learning at Warsaw University
• Small team 8 full-time employees
• Little financing gtgt has recently improved
• We help the faculties to implement e-learning
• presentations
• Staff training (143 lecturers)
• Space on Moodle HELPDESK

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E-learning popularizationhow we promote the idea

• Promotion
• Implementation

• Bottom-up activities
• Freedom
• Testing the new technology and idea
• Promotion among staff and students
• Staff trainings
• PR inside and outside the University (media)

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E-learning implementation our way
Internet courses are added to regular university
offer Projects financed by European Social Fund
Internet courses and postgraduate studies
COME was established
E-learning materials for full M.A. studies in
IT science
Working out COME online teaching paradigm New
e-learning platform
Videoconferences and open summer courses
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E-learning implementation our way
Internet courses are added to regular university
offer Projects financed by European Social Fund
Internet courses and postgraduate studies
COME was established
E-learning materials for full M.A. studies in
IT science
Working out COME online teaching paradigm New
e-learning platform
Videoconferences and open summer courses
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E-learning implementation our way
Internet courses and postgraduate
studies Self-made e-learning platform
Internet courses are added to regular university
offer Projects financed by European Social Fund
COME was established
E-learning materials for full M.A. studies in
IT science
Working out COME online teaching paradigm New
e-learning platform
Videoconferences and open summer courses
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E-learning implementation our way
Internet courses are added to regular university
offer Projects financed by European Social Fund
Internet courses and postgraduate studies
COME was established
E-learning materials for full M.A. studies in
IT science
Working out COME online teaching paradigm New
e-learning platform
Videoconferences and open summer courses
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E-learning implementation our way
Internet courses are added to regular university
offer IBIZA project! Projects financed by
European Social Fund
Internet courses and postgraduate studies
COME was established
E-learning materials for full M.A. studies in
IT science
Working out COME online teaching paradigm New
e-learning platform
Videoconferences and open summer courses
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E-learning implementation our way
Internet courses are added to regular university
offer Projects financed by European Social Fund
Internet courses and postgraduate studies
COME was established
E-learning materials for full M.A. studies in
IT science
Working out COME online teaching paradigm New
e-learning platform
Videoconferences and open summer courses
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Examples of e-learning courses

• E-courses with a teacher
• IBIZA project (interdisciplinary academic online
  courses)
• Postgraduate studies (Psychology, European
  Union, E-Learning)
• English language courses
• Maya Epigraphy
• Musica Latina
• 33 e-courses in PSYCHOLOGY, GEOLOGY, related to
  European Union issues
• Staff training in e-learning / moodle
• Survival Polish
• University Library Training

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Future...

• Plans for the future
• Receving more support from the authorities
  (financial and organizational regulations)
• Closer co-operation with Warsaw University
  professors
• Closer co-operation with other Universities,
  including the foreign ones
• E-learning strategy for the whole University
  should be created by the authorities
• Warsaw University authorities are very open to
  e-learning at the moment ?

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Thank you for your attention
Aneta Nowak aneta.nowak_at_uw.edu.pl Centre for
Open and Multimedia Education Warsaw University,
Poland www.come.uw.edu.pl