Nuradin G.B., Duisenova
N.T., Jolchibekova K.
Taraz state pedagogical
institute, Kazakhstan
"ELIADEMY" EDUCATIONAL
PLATFORM SYSTEM’S PRODUCTIVITY IN EDUCATION: ONLINE COURSE, EXPERIMENT
The first section. Online course.
Nowadays, there are a lot of
educational platforms, Web services, special programs to transform the
educational process on the Internet. The main purpose of the Information
Technology Center which was opened in Taraz State Pedagogical Institute is to innovate the learning process, to improve
the competence of teachers in the educational process, to ensure the widespread
use of modern information and communication technology.
"Eliademy"’s concrete steps
as an educational platform for online course:
1. Planning of the Internet-based platform for an online course;
2. Definition of the length of the course and main topics;
3. Definition of the title of the course (our course is titled as "The
opportunities of use of modern Internet technologies in the educational
process", because it is an online course, in which participants can perform
their tasks and make research);
4. Providing the information about the course (All the information is given
in the introduction of the online course);
5. Invitation and registration of the participants;
6. Selection of participants (Who should participate in such testing
course? In what level should be their computer knowledge? Of what field’s experts they should be?
Youth? Computer programmers? Should we
invite heads of departments involved in the organization of educational
process? Who should be involved?);
7. Review and identify the number of participants; (We selected the
following members of the group: Director of Academic Affairs (1), Director of
the Registrar Office (1), Dean (1), Heads of sections (2 specialists), Heads of
the Departments (2), teachers of Computer Science (2), teachers in the Humanities,
(in language areas 1, 1 in the field of technology);
8. Sending e-mail invitation to each participant; (after registering on www.eliademy.com they will be able to see
the course material. This course is available only to participants invited in
advance);
9. Registration of participants through the invitation and claim their
profile settings; (At the beginning only two participants downloaded their
profile image and provide their portfolio);
10. The first task is "Two trues, one false" is a phase of
introduction; (The activity of performing of the first task was low, that is
why we asked the next question: So it means that participants never worked with
any online platform or didn’t know or understand what they need to do. So we decided that it is necessary to
organize a meeting because it was necessary to explain the principles of the
course);
11. Organization of the meeting in the computer class (The meeting was
successful as profile and registration settings to platform weren’t so
difficult. The next task was to get acquainted during the game "Two trues,
one false". The participants wrote some comments and 24 posts to each other
using forum service);
12. The possibility of opening a new forum (by the end of the meeting 5 new
forums were opened on various topics, such as training effectiveness,
information management systems, ways to improve the efficiency of the use of
modern technologies in the teaching process, the effectiveness of e-learning
platform to improve the quality of education, as well as issues related to the
use of Internet technologies, 22 posts at all);
13. Holding an overview on the difficulties they faced during registration
among the participants. According to the survey we found out that 75% of
participants have never taken part in online courses. “What did you use to
register in Eliademy learning platform?” was the next important question? While
registration 70% of them used a computer and 30% of them used their mobile
phones. The members showed the following results: no problem during
registration - 62.5%, technical difficulties (slow speed internet, malfunction
of a device) - 37.5%, language problems, as all the participants are Kazakh
speakers (English, Kazakh) – 12%. The initial language of a program is English,
but in the settings it might be changed into Kazakh. It was informed that the
main part of the course will be online;
14.The main content of the course.
1. In the platform brief information about the topic, link to the website,
exact tasks and time for the
tasks (3 days) were given. The results of this stage were not good enough, but
there was progress anyway. Three of our participants have fulfilled their performance
without any difficulties and began discussion with each other. Two of our
participants had some technical difficulties and they wrote about it in the
forum. They were given advice on time. One of them did not fulfill a task, but completed
a test.
1)
On the first unit we added a test. The results of the test would be shown by
percentage and automatically goes to the record book of a teacher.
2)
We prepared a task for self assessment.
And we hope that this would help to estimate their actions.
After
studying "Eliademy" learning platform online the participants needed
to implement it into practice. Taking into consideration the complexity of
monitoring and evaluation of a great number of students as described above, we
organized the experimental groups consisting of 55 and 15 students. One of the
authors of this article G.B. Nuraddin conducted “Culture studies” subject to
the first-year students who enrolled in large group and N.T. Duysenova conducted
the German Language to small group of students. Firstly we had a meeting with the students in advance, we
explained the advantages of the "Eliademy" platform, and then in
accordance with the ethical standards we received their agreement.
"Eliademy"
learning platform is the centre of performing additional tasks, assessment and
monitoring the students’ activity outside the classroom, where grades are
visible to all students. Another advantage of this educational platform is that
the given task should be made in a specific period of time (deadline). Meanwhile,
the teacher has to evaluate creativity, make analysis and comparative analysis,
research-oriented tasks and test each action performed by students. If the
tutor needs all participants he/she can make an announcement. At the same time
the tutor is able to evaluate each
student's work, to indicate their achievements and need to improve some skills.
However, during the first weeks the next difficulty after the registration was
keeping up with deadlines. It showed that students didn’t have certain skills of
completing their tasks in definite period of time. For this reason we had to
extend the deadline of assignments for a week to give a second chance to the
students.
As it was shown
in the following table the teacher can give and prolong the terms and the date
of the given assignment. Such requirements can help the students to do their
tasks in time. It is possible to use the platform of video and audio materials
in order to make the test and the tutor can include numerous questions to the
test.
"Eliademy"
learning platform helps control students’ assessment effectively. It was proved by our experiment. This fact was also
confirmed by more than 85 percent of the students.
In
this article we would like to share the results of the learning course for
teachers on online platform by the experiment with the students. The platform
has a possibility of granting any volume and formats (using video, audio,
texts, graphics) using additional tasks to students, to check and estimate the
results. It is especially convenient to estimate large lecture groups and for
the organization of SIW and SIWT.
This
article consists of two parts:
1) E-Learning → carrying out course
online web technologies for teachers on the Eliademy learning platform;
2)
results of experimental usage of the Eliademy platform in the course of
training.
Literature:
1. David Scott, Robin Usher ‘Researching education 2nd edition’
2. Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Kelth Morrison ‘Research Methods in
Education 5 th Edition’
3.
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