Ramo ŠendeljVice-Rector for education, finance and development

ramo.sendelj@unimediteran.net

Establishing Distance learnig atUniversity Mediterranean

Content

◦ Introduce University Mediterranean

◦ Process of establishing DL

◦ Expectations about project DL@WEB

First private university in Montenegro Founded 2006. Membar of Atlas Group Reacredited 2008 for the next five years Clearly and fully committed to enhancing

the quality of studies

Comprises six faculties Faculty of Tourism “Montenegro Tourism School” Faculty of Business Studies "Montenegro Business

School", Faculty of Information Technology, Faculty of Visual Arts, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Foreign Languages

Project “Distance Learning System at University Mediterranean” started 2006.

Goals - employing Internet-based ICT as a new teaching method, - establishing long-life education programs at University

”Mediterranean”, - developing new methodological approaches used in

teaching, - facilitating switching from traditional learning to knowledge-

acquisition activity.

2007 Distance learning system Version 1.0 We decided to take distance learning implementation into

two phases◦ First phase include Implementation DLS at Faculty of IT as an additional

teching method◦ Second phase inlcude implementation DLS into all faculties of University

Mediterranean Software for supporting DL provide:

◦ Creating and posting multimedia teching material,◦ Facilitated and documented correspodence between students and

between students and teachers,◦ Assigning of task and their posting by students◦ Online testing as a way of studetnts’ self-evaluation

2007 – V1.0

We installed Moodle for the first time in 2007. In 2008: we started using Open Source Learning

Management System “Moodle” which is used at many world universities.

We created the eLearning Development Centre. The switching into new system was used to additionally

improve teaching material. The teaching staff was trained to work with Moodle system

Open Source Learning Management System Open Source Learning Management System http://www.moodle.org

Open Source Learning Management System Open Source Learning Management System http://www.moodle.org

Resource for learning Activities

pdf and multimedia files Web pages E-books Lessons

Exam Tasks Forum Wiki Project

New courses design on all study levels Adaptation of Moodle system for real needs supported

from modules such as videoconference, Establishment of Internet standards for e-course

development in accordance with recommendations of◦ EFQUEL-The European Foundation for Quality in

eLearning ◦ The universities in Europe which have been awarded

Quality label in eLearning by EFQUEL Education of teaching staff and students Evaluation

In 2009, DLS established at Faculty of Tourism and the Faculty of Law.

Staff was trained in designing teaching materials and communicating with students.

 Quality of DLS has improved significantly and the implementation time has been reduced.

In 2010, the other faculties at the University "Mediterranean" started DL courses.

The use of video conferencing software has substantially improved our teaching quality.

• Set up the guidelines for enacting the legislation that will enable the accreditation of the DL courses

• Better promotion of DL as a modern field of education

• Establish DL quality standards and give recommendations for achieving them

• Set up the guidelines for the high- quality preparation of teaching materials

• Recommendations for the growth of a new pedagogic model