Professionalisation and Innovation :
Friends or Ennemies ?
EDEN Gdansk 2009
Marianne Poumay University of Liège, Belgium
©ULgSource : connaissance network
Overview
• « Is this an innovation » ?
• Teachers innovate… but how do they get there ?
• Innovation and Professionalization
• Innovating online… a few success factors
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Sandra Florquin, ULg
Add online modules for students success(orange blocks)
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Facilitate communication (videoconference)
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Clearly structure the space
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Example : « clinical reasoning » module
Sandra Florquin, ULg
Multiply exercises (self-evaluation)…
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Example : « challenge » module
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… and challenges
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Enrich, illustrate your content
R. Laffineur, ULg
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Add videos and testimonies
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Bring it closer to real professional tasks
B. Lenzen, ULg
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Go for case based learning,…
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Ph Lepoivre, FUSAGx
…or case/problem based learning
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Introduce online group work…
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… and interaction through discussion forums
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Promote flexible paths…
Ch Hanzen, ULg
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… or condition those paths
P. Bonnet, ULg
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Use a competence model to frame learning
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Allow students to monitor their own progresses
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• Means a new way of doing something (apply knowledge or techniques in a new way).
• Its goal is positive change, to make so or sth better.
• Occurs whether it has positive or negative results (cf. introduction of gadgets)
Innovation? (source : wikipedia)
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• Means a new way of doing something (apply knowledge or techniques in a new way).
• Its goal is positive change, to make so or sth better.
• Occurs whether it has positive or negative results (cf. introduction of gadgets)
------• Should be of interest to more than one organisation.• Those who apply the innovation are often called pioneers in
their field.• « eLearning is no more an innovation in itself » (infrastructure for
innovation) (Rolf Granow)
• Sometimes drawing from research (from « experimental dev. » - source : OECD 2002, Frascati manual)
Innovation? (source : wikipedia)
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(ULg case)
• By themselves / external influence
Teachers innovate… but how do they get there? (« one size will NOT fit all » - Nick Allen)
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(ULg case)
• By themselves / external influence
• Through « services » and tools
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Internal workshops (mandatory !)
This academic year :
• 112 workshops
• 348 participants
• More than 50.000 learning hours
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Sends a signal : quality of teaching is important !
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• Through training
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Professionalization fosters innovation
Reflective practitioner model (Schön)
SoTL (Boyer 2000, Kreber 2002)
• Document your practice• « Classroom Research »• Share new knowledge
Both looking for positive change
Best Friends !
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Innovating online? A few success factors
• Draw from research to explain the « why » ?
• Closely accompany each teacher (One size does NOT fit all)
• Practice what you preach :
– Use and combine online tools IN the programme (NOT tools for tools, BUT tools for learning)
– Demonstrate you also need them and use them for your own LLLearning
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Innovating online? A few success factors
• Draw from research to explain the « why? »
• Closely accompany each teacher (One size does NOT fit all)
• Practice what you preach :
– Use and combine online tools IN the programme (NOT tools for tools, BUT tools for learning)
– Demonstrate you also need them and use them for your own LLLearning
– Innovate yourself… and have fun in teaching
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Thanks for your attention !
Professionalisation and Innovation :
Friends or Ennemies ?
EDEN Gdansk 2009
Marianne Poumay University of Liège, Belgium