3/4/2015

REAL TIME COLLABORATIVE

ENVIRONMENTS IN EDUCATION

Collaboration 1O1

Sharing and developing ideas and solutions

with other like-minded people

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• What is it?

Collaboration 1O1

A solo effort of a team leader. Working in a team or working as a team are two completely different approaches.

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• What is not?

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Benefits

• Students are active participants in their own learning activities making decisions about what and how they will learn

• Collaborative work is a critical focus for professional development

• Deeper learning and appreciation for interpersonal support

• Greater synergy for creatively solving complex problems

• Discussion of multiple ways of solving the same problem

• Value the expertise of other members

• Share responsibility for meeting goals

• Collectively develop and agree upon common goals

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Collaboration 1O1

Face-to-face interaction:

When students interact with other students it

maximizes student involvement and aids in

concept development.

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Collaboration 1O1

Collaboration can occur anywhere at

anytime through the use of the Internet,

digital video and communication

technologies

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Virtual classroom

Advantages

• Majority of classrooms contains an interactive whiteboard

• Allows using rich and dynamic content engaging students motivation and attention

• Allows to expose complex topics using different visual perspectives

• Teachers can prepare all this content in home and even change templates/ideas with other teachers

• Allows students to take contact with technologies that will mostly be used in their professional life.

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Virtual classroom

Disadvantages

• Investment needs on both schools and students

• Software solutions dependency on hardware (Windows vsLinux vs MacOS)

• Teachers resistance to the adoption of virtual classroom instead of the classics classroom environment

• Complexity and number of classroom software may be overwhelming to both students and teachers

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Eduwall

The endless online whiteboard which allows a real time collaboration between multiple users providing an e-learning environment

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Eduwall

• Appealing and intuitive interface across all devices

• Web solution (No hardware dependency)

• Responsive design (Smartphone, Tablet, Notebook, Desktop, Whiteboard, TV)

• Real time collaboration between multiple users

• Integrated videoconference

• Multitouch

• Intelligent ELearning gallery

• Math tools

• Infinite canvas

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Chinese proverb:

Tell me, and I’ll forget.

Show me, and I’ll remember.

Involve me, and I’ll learn.

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THANK YOU!