March 15, 2010 at 18:05Full-time education software
Discussions on the subject of full-time education systems and the organization of the educational process 2.0
... In many universities there is a faculty of distance education, which, as a rule, uses special software to ensure and facilitate the learning process. Why, in these universities, do not use software to facilitate the process of full-time study? The system of full-time education (COO) could save teachers from unnecessary paperwork, from storing tons of paper reports of students, from compiling absenteeism lists, rating, would give additional opportunities such as: notifying students (newsletter, news, teacher’s blog), statistics by student / group / stream / month / year.
So, let's talk about the software for full-time study ...
Hello, Habr !
Since this is my first article, a few words about me instead of the foreword:
I am 21 years old, I live in the capital of Belarus, I work in IT (php developer), officially 2 years, informally - 4. I study in the 5th (last) year, majoring in micro- and nanoelectronics, full-time and free of charge. He began his way as a simple player of online games, having studied thoroughly all aspects of every game he played, he passed to the next level - administration of this game. So there was a server on which I was a full-fledged admin, tired of answering players' questions, holding contests, etc. - I began to write game scripts with auto competitions, it was boring again - I started improving the game’s website, so I got to PHP, web-programming and began my work in a small IT office (hi to Zenonis), where I started reading Habr, because there are many they read it (hello again). I’ve been wanting to get an invite for quite some time, but so far I haven’t succeeded, there have been two attempts to write an article, but when I went into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and gave up. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. but so far I haven’t succeeded, there have been two attempts to write an article, but going into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and dropped my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. but so far this has not worked out for me, there have been two attempts to write an article, but, having gone into a search in a hub, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and dropped my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. There were two attempts to write an article, but going into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and lowered my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. There were two attempts to write an article, but going into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and lowered my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. that similar articles were written before me and lowered his hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The theme of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. that similar articles were written before me and lowered his hands. I began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The theme of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students.
I started writing the system in December 2009 and I plan to finish the basic functionality by the summer of 2010. The name of the system so far is “Effective Learning System”(SEF) and this is not a distance learning system (LMS), of which there are many. Many universities have a faculty of distance learning, which, as a rule, uses special software to ensure and facilitate the learning process. Why, in these universities, do not use software to facilitate the process of full-time study? The system of full-time education (COO) could save teachers from unnecessary paperwork, from storing tons of paper reports of students, from compiling absenteeism lists, rating, would give additional opportunities such as: notifying students (newsletter, news, teacher’s blog), statistics by student / group / stream / month / year.
So, let's talk about full-time software. I will describe the system as I see it, and you write something that would be useful to implement in it yet.
1) A simple, intuitive system, almost anyone can understand it.
2) Initially, it will be used within the same department of the university, and then the entire university. (I try to provide for the possibility of using it within the whole university, but, taking into account the requirements of my supervisor’s diploma, I understand that the system should be super flexible, because all teachers have different teaching methods, from the grading system to the monitoring system).
3) Very strong binding to the schedule and calendar of classes, strong interaction of all objects of the system (courses-schedule-calendar-students-visits-control).
4)Friendly interface, usefulness and relevance of information for students. Information posted on the site will indeed be useful to students.
5) Full automation. A minimum of actions for teachers, everything that can happen automatically, in this mode will work.
The system can be divided into three communicating parts or three basic types of users: administrators , teachers and students . It all starts with the administrators.
Administrator.
Acts as a system tuner:
As soon as the administrator completed the initial settings of the system and added teachers, the teachers take up the matter.
Teacher.
1) Courses :
Having entered the system, he adds (if not already) students and proceeds to the creation of his courses. The teacher can create various courses of various types (lectures, practical, laboratory), can attach files to courses, sign groups of students on them, write a list of course literature and its description. Inside the course, the teacher creates classes, if, for example, he needs to read 32 hours of lectures, then he creates 16 classes (pairs), to which he can also attach files, change the order of classes, can even combine them into sections.
Inside the course there is a tab “Control”, in which he can add a list of control questions with answer options and without. Interestingly, the courses are “reusable”, it is not necessary to re-create them every year, just sign up new groups for this course. Over time, the filling of the course will become informative, the teacher will add manuals, additional materials, video and audio classes to the lesson / course / section, fill out a description of each lesson, so that the student will know what he will learn when he comes in a couple.
2) Schedule :
Further, the teacher proceeds to fill out the schedule (if the administration did not do it for him). He selects one of his courses from the list, indicates which group the class will take and by which days, weeks and time (by the way, in my university the schedule is divided by weeks, there are four weeks of classes that are repeated one after another, over the course of the study of the year ). The teacher fills out the schedule for these 4 weeks, and it is applied to the calendar, in which the lesson is calculated for each date, i.e. looking at the calendar, you can see what lesson is coming (its name, files for it, etc.).
At this point, the system startup is complete. And she is ready to use. Now I will describe the student how he behaves in the system.
Student.
Can go to your profile on the site, see a list of your group (find middle names, contact numbers). He sees his calendar with upcoming events (lectures, labs, etc.). He sees what class is waiting for him, what he hears there, finds out, can download files for the class and prepare in advance (ha ha :)). I think it would be convenient to print your schedule or calendar so that it is always at hand, in the absence of electronics with the Internet. A student can see his statistics, may be horrified by his poor attendance, and reason (again haha :)). Or see that he was not admitted to the next laboratory work and run to the dean’s office to fill out papers for admission. The student sees the news from his teachers, can read their blog, or find out that he must complete the test. From the student, in the system,
So, imagine, time is running, a semester is in full swing, how will the system work in action?
Teacher.
3) Attendance journal :
Constantly fills attendance journals, he needs to know how to evaluate students, whom to drive in the exam, and who to give indulgence for good attendance. After any lesson has passed, a button appears in the calendar next to it - the “Visiting Log”, by clicking on which a list of the group (attached in the schedule for this course) appears with switches (there was, was not, a good reason). In addition to the switches, there will be an input field for evaluating if the student has distinguished himself and the teacher wants to mark it. Over time, statistics, graphs, and reports will be generated for each student, group, and faculty.
4)Knowledge Control :
The material is read, now it is necessary to check the students, give them some grades. The teacher goes to the appropriate tab "Control". Selects one of his groups, course, and type of control. There are several types of control: a) in the form of a regular test, a list of questions with answer options and a limited time (with this test, everything happens automatically, the system evaluates the student); b) in the form of a test without answer options (the teacher himself checks this work and puts a mark). Upon completion of the student’s work, she is sent to the teacher and appears in his teaching department, he can check it, set a grade, and send it back to the student with corrections (or everything happens automatically, depending on the type of control). As a rule, the control of knowledge will be held in a computer class (not at home, this is not an LMS!
At the end of the semester, the teacher can open the statistics for the group / student, and figure out what to put on the exam, and how much to ask. Do you think such systems have a place to live and be used in the future?
In conclusion, I want to say that most of the above is already ready, and it remains to make very little effort to get a high-quality, useful product that will be used (at least at my university)!
... In many universities there is a faculty of distance education, which, as a rule, uses special software to ensure and facilitate the learning process. Why, in these universities, do not use software to facilitate the process of full-time study? The system of full-time education (COO) could save teachers from unnecessary paperwork, from storing tons of paper reports of students, from compiling absenteeism lists, rating, would give additional opportunities such as: notifying students (newsletter, news, teacher’s blog), statistics by student / group / stream / month / year.
So, let's talk about the software for full-time study ...
Hello, Habr !
Introduction
Since this is my first article, a few words about me instead of the foreword:
I am 21 years old, I live in the capital of Belarus, I work in IT (php developer), officially 2 years, informally - 4. I study in the 5th (last) year, majoring in micro- and nanoelectronics, full-time and free of charge. He began his way as a simple player of online games, having studied thoroughly all aspects of every game he played, he passed to the next level - administration of this game. So there was a server on which I was a full-fledged admin, tired of answering players' questions, holding contests, etc. - I began to write game scripts with auto competitions, it was boring again - I started improving the game’s website, so I got to PHP, web-programming and began my work in a small IT office (hi to Zenonis), where I started reading Habr, because there are many they read it (hello again). I’ve been wanting to get an invite for quite some time, but so far I haven’t succeeded, there have been two attempts to write an article, but when I went into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and gave up. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. but so far I haven’t succeeded, there have been two attempts to write an article, but going into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and dropped my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. but so far this has not worked out for me, there have been two attempts to write an article, but, having gone into a search in a hub, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and dropped my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. There were two attempts to write an article, but going into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and lowered my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. There were two attempts to write an article, but going into the search for Habr, I was upset that similar articles were written before me and lowered my hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. that similar articles were written before me and lowered his hands. He began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The theme of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. that similar articles were written before me and lowered his hands. I began to wait for the topic of the article to find me, and it happened, and my university helped me with this, voluntarily-forcibly. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The theme of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students. After two weeks, my graduate practice ends and I need to write what I did for 3 months. The topic of my diploma “The Internet system for organizing training in the disciplines of micro- and nanoelectronics”, as you see, is not very related to my specialty, but this is probably the only thing I can really do. In this article I will describe a system to simplify the learning process, about software that will make learning optimized, interesting, save time for teachers and students.
I started writing the system in December 2009 and I plan to finish the basic functionality by the summer of 2010. The name of the system so far is “Effective Learning System”(SEF) and this is not a distance learning system (LMS), of which there are many. Many universities have a faculty of distance learning, which, as a rule, uses special software to ensure and facilitate the learning process. Why, in these universities, do not use software to facilitate the process of full-time study? The system of full-time education (COO) could save teachers from unnecessary paperwork, from storing tons of paper reports of students, from compiling absenteeism lists, rating, would give additional opportunities such as: notifying students (newsletter, news, teacher’s blog), statistics by student / group / stream / month / year.
So, let's talk about full-time software. I will describe the system as I see it, and you write something that would be useful to implement in it yet.
SEF concept
1) A simple, intuitive system, almost anyone can understand it.
2) Initially, it will be used within the same department of the university, and then the entire university. (I try to provide for the possibility of using it within the whole university, but, taking into account the requirements of my supervisor’s diploma, I understand that the system should be super flexible, because all teachers have different teaching methods, from the grading system to the monitoring system).
3) Very strong binding to the schedule and calendar of classes, strong interaction of all objects of the system (courses-schedule-calendar-students-visits-control).
4)Friendly interface, usefulness and relevance of information for students. Information posted on the site will indeed be useful to students.
5) Full automation. A minimum of actions for teachers, everything that can happen automatically, in this mode will work.
System operation
The system can be divided into three communicating parts or three basic types of users: administrators , teachers and students . It all starts with the administrators.
Administrator.
Acts as a system tuner:
- sets the training schedule (time of the start of the pair and the time frame of the semesters);
- creates faculties, departments, specialties;
- sets the x-point rating system;
- sets permissions for all other types of users;
- Adds teachers, students; (the teacher can add students);
- Fills in the teacher’s schedule (the teacher can do this too);
As soon as the administrator completed the initial settings of the system and added teachers, the teachers take up the matter.
Teacher.
1) Courses :
Having entered the system, he adds (if not already) students and proceeds to the creation of his courses. The teacher can create various courses of various types (lectures, practical, laboratory), can attach files to courses, sign groups of students on them, write a list of course literature and its description. Inside the course, the teacher creates classes, if, for example, he needs to read 32 hours of lectures, then he creates 16 classes (pairs), to which he can also attach files, change the order of classes, can even combine them into sections.
Inside the course there is a tab “Control”, in which he can add a list of control questions with answer options and without. Interestingly, the courses are “reusable”, it is not necessary to re-create them every year, just sign up new groups for this course. Over time, the filling of the course will become informative, the teacher will add manuals, additional materials, video and audio classes to the lesson / course / section, fill out a description of each lesson, so that the student will know what he will learn when he comes in a couple.
2) Schedule :
Further, the teacher proceeds to fill out the schedule (if the administration did not do it for him). He selects one of his courses from the list, indicates which group the class will take and by which days, weeks and time (by the way, in my university the schedule is divided by weeks, there are four weeks of classes that are repeated one after another, over the course of the study of the year ). The teacher fills out the schedule for these 4 weeks, and it is applied to the calendar, in which the lesson is calculated for each date, i.e. looking at the calendar, you can see what lesson is coming (its name, files for it, etc.).
At this point, the system startup is complete. And she is ready to use. Now I will describe the student how he behaves in the system.
Student.
Can go to your profile on the site, see a list of your group (find middle names, contact numbers). He sees his calendar with upcoming events (lectures, labs, etc.). He sees what class is waiting for him, what he hears there, finds out, can download files for the class and prepare in advance (ha ha :)). I think it would be convenient to print your schedule or calendar so that it is always at hand, in the absence of electronics with the Internet. A student can see his statistics, may be horrified by his poor attendance, and reason (again haha :)). Or see that he was not admitted to the next laboratory work and run to the dean’s office to fill out papers for admission. The student sees the news from his teachers, can read their blog, or find out that he must complete the test. From the student, in the system,
So, imagine, time is running, a semester is in full swing, how will the system work in action?
Teacher.
3) Attendance journal :
Constantly fills attendance journals, he needs to know how to evaluate students, whom to drive in the exam, and who to give indulgence for good attendance. After any lesson has passed, a button appears in the calendar next to it - the “Visiting Log”, by clicking on which a list of the group (attached in the schedule for this course) appears with switches (there was, was not, a good reason). In addition to the switches, there will be an input field for evaluating if the student has distinguished himself and the teacher wants to mark it. Over time, statistics, graphs, and reports will be generated for each student, group, and faculty.
4)Knowledge Control :
The material is read, now it is necessary to check the students, give them some grades. The teacher goes to the appropriate tab "Control". Selects one of his groups, course, and type of control. There are several types of control: a) in the form of a regular test, a list of questions with answer options and a limited time (with this test, everything happens automatically, the system evaluates the student); b) in the form of a test without answer options (the teacher himself checks this work and puts a mark). Upon completion of the student’s work, she is sent to the teacher and appears in his teaching department, he can check it, set a grade, and send it back to the student with corrections (or everything happens automatically, depending on the type of control). As a rule, the control of knowledge will be held in a computer class (not at home, this is not an LMS!
At the end of the semester, the teacher can open the statistics for the group / student, and figure out what to put on the exam, and how much to ask. Do you think such systems have a place to live and be used in the future?
Completion
In conclusion, I want to say that most of the above is already ready, and it remains to make very little effort to get a high-quality, useful product that will be used (at least at my university)!