E-Education &

E-Learning in Austria

Mag. Axel ZahlutEuropean Network for Innovative Schools Austria

Do we need a change?

"Education is what most people get, some teach and few have!"

Karl Kraus

Changing circumstances

Why?

Current data

Background?

Austria's basic Structure

HOW?

strategical Objectives

Future?

Changing circumstances

Why?

"Modern technologies provide access to information in an unlimited way but also, without any oder! Therefore students

will have to learn how to manage the information they get and to put in order."

Prof. Hans N. Weiler(Prof. Emeritus in Stanford)

CLOUD

Shifts?

• Teacher-centred vs. student-centred approach

• e-inclusion (professional & private life)

• practical level

Current data

Background?

• 5 students per computer

• 50% of schools use e-learning or web 2.0

• 50% of the teachers in training since 2000

• 20.000 ECDLs completed annualy

• 210.000 modular ECDL exams annualy

• over 25% of schools involved in int. projects

Source: efit21, 2010

Austria's basic Structure

HOW?

SCHOOLS

european level national level

federal state

SCHOOLS

EUROPEAN LEVEL

- 13 current international projects

- 16 international projects completed

specific and targeted content or future design of the classroom

http://virtuelleschule.bmukk.gv.at/projekte-international/

SCHOOLS

NATIONAL LEVEL

- 16 national projects with specific tasks and

challenges- http://www.schule.at

new eContent for classroom use

http://virtuelleschule.bmukk.gv.at/projekte-national/

SCHOOLS

FEDERAL STATE

- educational server- regional content collected- valuable information for parents, students and teachers

http://virtuelleschule.bmukk.gv.at/projekte-national/bildungsserver/

SCHOOLS

- involvement in as many initiatives as possible

- e-learning, sports and additional subjects

- participations in school networks

- e-learning platforms

SCHOOLNETWORKS

http://www.enis.at/

http://elsa20.schule.at/

http://www.elc20.com/

eLSA

Is there an affordable e-Learning environment?

http://www.edumoodle.at/moodle/

strategical Objectives

Future?

6• Enhance quality of teaching and learning

• Teach digital competences

• Enhance the success on the labour market

• Modernize the organisation structure

• Integrate the society

• Boost art and culture

enhance quality of teaching and learning

• quality of using and sharing content

• learning platforms and content portals

• investments in the infrastructure

• netbook project for competence-based learning

• individualization of learning and teaching

teach digital competences

• raising the awareness of the necessity of digital skills

• appropriate teachers training & further training

• EPICT, Virtual Pedagogical Academia, New Middle School

enhance the success on the labour market

• setting benchmarks for ICT in education

• standarizing methods of teaching

• jobs for information technology more appealing - especially to girls and young women

• school pilot IT & gender, industrial certificates, ECDL

modernize the organisation structure• using ICT in the educational

administration for a powerful infrastructure

• services and applications for target groups

• modern applications on all levels

• E-Government

• edu.card, edu.net, broadband connection, statistic-datawarehouse, ELAK

integrate society

• access to the potential for everyone: e-inclusion

• removing barriers for social integration

• including ICT and media used by juveniles in the pedagogical approach

• media literacy

• edu.gov - E-Government in class

boost art and culture• presentation independent from location

with ICT

• access for future generation without any barriers

• including it in class

• easy access to the digitalized cultural heritage

• Culture Pool, digitalization of the portfolios of museums, galleries, and archives

eEducation & eLearning is not a concept!It is a necessary fact!!

CONCLUSION

References

• http://www.google.at/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kidsnet.at/llaender/_derived/oesterreich.htm_txt_AUSTRIA.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.kidsnet.at/llaender/oesterreich.htm&usg=__sx-vrxJqceGscekGP5qmKq98N-s=&h=312&w=609&sz=8&hl=de&start=8&zoom=1&tbnid=uNjL9SH2BzBU6M:&tbnh=70&tbnw=136&ei=UOCITdGxOcTFtAaJ2pSzDA&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%25C3%25B6sterreich%26hl%3Dde%26biw%3D981%26bih%3D661%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1

• http://www.google.at/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mygeo.info/landkarten/europa/europa_karte_de.png&imgrefurl=http://www.mygeo.info/landkarten_europa.html&usg=__GWDovPU7ENK9oNr2ENir_yg1KxA=&h=1000&w=1200&sz=187&hl=de&start=1&zoom=1&tbnid=A2vKX6pY2ti4tM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=150&ei=AeGITb_bCIOFswby-pWvDA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Deuropa%26hl%3Dde%26biw%3D981%26bih%3D661%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1

• http://www.google.at/imgres?imgurl=http://www.austria-navigator.de/pic/maps/st.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.austria-navigator.de/ST/&usg=__pztzJvprgqL-ST4plDmfwUSiONo=&h=285&w=480&sz=7&hl=de&start=8&zoom=1&tbnid=W2Bhr8UAvXVDuM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=129&ei=O-GITYPMMYvUsga8-sW-DA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbundesland%26hl%3Dde%26biw%3D981%26bih%3D661%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1

Book:

Weiler, Hans N. (2009): Bildung im Zeitalter ihrer technologischen Reproduzierbarkeit. in: Schlüter, Andreas/Strohschneider, Peter (Hrsg.) (2009): Bildung? Bildung! 26 Thesen zur Bildung als Herausforderung

im 21. Jahrhundert. Bonn.

Ministerial Paper:

efit 21. digitale agenda für bildung, kunst und kultur.

Report:

Zauchner, Sabine/Baumgartner, Peter: IT in Schulen und Unterreicht. Vollerhebung der IT-Infrastruktur an öffentlichen Schulen Österreichs im Schuljahr 2007/2008. Abschlussbericht. Department für interaktive

Medien und Bildungstechnologien Donau-Universität Krems. p. 23. (Full IT-report on the Austrian infrastructure in education.)

Kolding et al., (2009): White Paper. Post Crisis: e-Skills Are Needed to Drive Europe‘s Innovations Society. IDC-Study.

http://eskills.eun.org/web/guest/news_?p_p_id=56_INSTANCE_0tMl&_56_INSTANCE_0tMl_articleId=37952

Electronic sources:

Edumoodle Website: www.edumoodle.at/moodle, February 1st 2011

Enis Website. http://www.enis.at, February 1st 2011

eLearning Cluster eLC: www.elc20.com, February 1st 2011

eLSA: http://elsa20.schule.at, February 1st 2011

E-Skills-Week Website. http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/, February 2nd 2011

E-Skills Steering Committee: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/e-skills/support, February 1st 2011

European Schoolnet Website. http://www.eun.org October 17th 2010

Virtuelle Schule Website: http://www.virtuelleschule.at, February 1st 2011