Abstract
The paper presents a report that discuss the experience of participation of the authors in the EduHack, an online course designed to train university teachers in the use of digital techniques and learning strategies. This study highlights two issues of great interest in pandemic times. The first one is the structure and the organization of the EduHack course with some suggestions related to its improvement; the second one is Drag&Fly, the project idea of an e-learning web platform developed by the authors during the collaborative part of the course. The experience of participation to EduHack course has been analyzed by authors using concepts and categories of analysis widespread in the pragmatic theoretical tradition, enhancing the possibility of changing the teachers’ approach to the design and the implementation of a higher education e-learning course.
Highlights
IntroductionAt present e-learning courses have increased their importance and a growing number of Italian universities have begun to adopt them mainly due to the pandemic, so it is crucial to explore the best ways of using this methodology for higher education (It should be noted that there are currently eleven entirely online universities in Italy [1])
At present e-learning courses have increased their importance and a growing number of Italian universities have begun to adopt them mainly due to the pandemic, so it is crucial to explore the best ways of using this methodology for higher education (It should be noted that there are currently eleven entirely online universities in Italy [1]).This work, started from the participation of the authors in the EduHack course during the first months of 2020, highlights the structure and the organization of the course and presents Drag&Fly, the project idea developed by the authors during the collaborative part of the course, called EduHackathon
The first one is the structure and the organization of the EduHack course with some suggestions related to its improvement; the second one is Drag&Fly, the project idea of an e-learning web platform developed by the authors during the collaborative part of the course
Summary
At present e-learning courses have increased their importance and a growing number of Italian universities have begun to adopt them mainly due to the pandemic, so it is crucial to explore the best ways of using this methodology for higher education (It should be noted that there are currently eleven entirely online universities in Italy [1]). From the participation in the EduHack course, the need to select the most effective tools for the specific teaching of the individual disciplines [2,3,4] emerges Starting from this consideration, a changing on the teachers’ approach to the design and the implementation of a higher education e-learning course is defined. In this frame, the experimentation of an e-learning web platform, called Drag&Fly, was born, which allows individual teachers to design a personalized course based on their teaching needs and specific classes of students. The study identifies some possible improvements of the EduHack course in order to design and organize learning strategies more able to enhance an effective interaction between teacher and students
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