ICT integration in Higher Education:
Health and Science Professors’ Experiences
with and Authoring Tool
Struchiner, Bazzo, and Giannella
Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro
ICDE 2009
ANTECEDENTS
Context and Motives
• Pedagogical and Communication capabilities of
ICTs (interaction, information access,
simulation, etc.)
•ICT integration in higher education: social
demands and educational policies – face to face,
bended, and distance
•Professors as critical innovation and change
agents: academic culture and teacher labour
challenges
•Research and development of virtual tools and
environments to support professors in the use of
ICT in their teaching practices (educational
models e experiences of LTC/NUTES)
RESEARCH
and DEVELOPMENT
•Research and Development of an Internet based
Authoring Tool (Constructore)
•Based on pedagogical principles and on
previous partnership experience with
professors - “learning environments”
•Using Internet resources as
pedagogical tools
•Easy to use/construct: no computer
knowledge needed; quick production,
implementation and publication of
courses/activities
•Material produced are easy to handle
and provide diversified information
representation media
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Resultados:
•Learning environment
creation modelo
in six steps
Ferramentas Constructore e Bvneuro:
•Flexible choices
conceitual e estrutura
(ready or not)
•Easy to edit at any
time
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Resultados:
Ferramentas Constructore e Bvneuro: modelo
conceitual e estrutura
•Defining
resources
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Resultados:
•Defining course
Bvneuro: structure
modelo
Ferramentas Constructore e
conceitual e estrutura
•Inserting or
importing
learning
resources/
objects
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Resultados:
•Selecting layout
Ferramentas Constructore e Bvneuro: modelo
conceitual e estrutura•Saving and
publishing
Strategies for
Diffusion and Adoption
• Constructore seminars (different departments
and institutes)
•Professors adopters as diffusers
•Development team provide professors with
support for virtual course construction and
implementation with students
•Dynamic tool improvement based on professors
use, difficulties, and concerns (iterative
process)
Results
Basic Facts and Numbers
Careers and Institutes Involved
From 2007-1 to 2009-1
Careers
Medicine
Nursing
Biological Sciences
Psychology
Physical Education
Dentistry
Medical Physics
Electronic Engineering
Institutes
IBqM - Biochemestry
NUTES - Health Education
IBCCF– Biophysics
COPPE– Biomed. Engineering
IPUB – Psychiatry
Courses/level and Students Involved
From 2007-1 to 2009-1
Total/
2009-1 Level
Course Level
2007
2008
Undergraduate
4
191
12
600
8
538
24
1329
Graduate
8
167
8
186
6
52
22
405
Continuing Ed.
0
0
6
165
2
63
8
228
Total/year
12
358
26
951
16
653
54
1962
Examples
Aplicativos de software de
demonstração de resolução de
problemas matemáticos
Results
Lessons learned
Challenges and Concerns experienced by Professors
Challenges and concerns
Technical conditions: acess to server;
space to support files
Competencies: access, understand,
and use the tool.
Pedagogical challenges to meet
educational objectives: course
reconstruction, ICT role definition,
ICT in educational practice
Changes in teachers’ work: selfconcerns: exposure/modernity; taskconcerns: change practice/work
overload; impact-concerns:
expectation about student acceptance
Research
Categories
Technical
Challenges
(West et al,
2007)
Pedagogical
Challenges
(West et al,
2007)
Change
Challenges (Hall
e Hord, 2005)
Laboratório de Tecnologias Cognitivas
NUTES/UFRJ
[email protected]
http://www.ufrj.br/nutes ltc.nutes.ufrj.br/constructore