FIELD REPORT ON FIVE YEARS OF eLEARNING - Observations and Inspirations

Heiko Sturzrehm, Claire Fautsch, Peter Kropf

2010

Abstract

Due to the limitations of staff, especially at small universities, eLearning is a perfect addition to traditional courses. Nonetheless, the development and maintenance of online courses is not trivial. The usage of these courses can also be quite challenging for students, who are generally familiar with traditional lectures. In this paper, we are contributing our experience in creating and maintaining online courses. We will also describe different types of blended and pure online courses used in our department. Some of the observations made during this evaluation do not only apply for online courses, but are also true for traditional courses. Finally several interesting features to improve eLearning are presented.

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Sturzrehm H., Fautsch C. and Kropf P. (2010). FIELD REPORT ON FIVE YEARS OF eLEARNING - Observations and Inspirations . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-024-5, pages 317-324. DOI: 10.5220/0002779003170324


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@conference{csedu10,
author={Heiko Sturzrehm and Claire Fautsch and Peter Kropf},
title={FIELD REPORT ON FIVE YEARS OF eLEARNING - Observations and Inspirations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
pages={317-324},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002779003170324},
isbn={978-989-674-024-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - FIELD REPORT ON FIVE YEARS OF eLEARNING - Observations and Inspirations
SN - 978-989-674-024-5
AU - Sturzrehm H.
AU - Fautsch C.
AU - Kropf P.
PY - 2010
SP - 317
EP - 324
DO - 10.5220/0002779003170324