AulaWeb (http://www.aulaweb.unige.it) is the WEB Portal for Education of the University of Genoa, it is based on the Open Source software Moodle, which has been adopted three years ago as the centralized university ICT support to improve the traditional teaching. Nowadays AulaWeb counts around 21.300 student enrolled and, on this portal, there are 112 Courses of Study offering some 1800 subjects with more than 900 teachers involved. The aim increasing the use of ICT on education in our University and, in particular, to accustom the teachers over the use of many functionalities that Moodle supports in order to enhance the quality of educational offer. In these three years the staff of AulaWeb proposed a lot of technical seminars devoted to the teachers involved in order to make them able to manage as many functions as possible among all the functions of the platform. The process adopted by our university was based on voluntary adhesion of the teachers that joined AulaWeb. In order to test the agreement between the students, we proposed them a questionnaire with questions regarding both possible technical problems and the usefulness of the activities presented. During this process, we had to face the demand of a large part of teachers involved in AulaWeb longing to acquire more skills both in new technologies both in the methodological approach for web communication; for this reason we also provided them a course in Instructional Design (WEL), proposed on AulaWeb and a set of technical seminars giving a survey on many techniques useful for web-based education with the partnership of ITD of CNR (Institute of Didactic Technology of National Centre of Research) of Genoa. In order to get an evaluation of the quality of all the educational offer, we participated this year to the UNIQUe project for University Accreditation on the use of ICT in teaching; the results of this process are still underway.
Quality assurance in Higher Education and the ICTpolicy support at University ofGenoa: the portal "AulaWeb" and theproject WEL (Web Enhanced Learning)
RUI, MARINA
2008-01-01
Abstract
AulaWeb (http://www.aulaweb.unige.it) is the WEB Portal for Education of the University of Genoa, it is based on the Open Source software Moodle, which has been adopted three years ago as the centralized university ICT support to improve the traditional teaching. Nowadays AulaWeb counts around 21.300 student enrolled and, on this portal, there are 112 Courses of Study offering some 1800 subjects with more than 900 teachers involved. The aim increasing the use of ICT on education in our University and, in particular, to accustom the teachers over the use of many functionalities that Moodle supports in order to enhance the quality of educational offer. In these three years the staff of AulaWeb proposed a lot of technical seminars devoted to the teachers involved in order to make them able to manage as many functions as possible among all the functions of the platform. The process adopted by our university was based on voluntary adhesion of the teachers that joined AulaWeb. In order to test the agreement between the students, we proposed them a questionnaire with questions regarding both possible technical problems and the usefulness of the activities presented. During this process, we had to face the demand of a large part of teachers involved in AulaWeb longing to acquire more skills both in new technologies both in the methodological approach for web communication; for this reason we also provided them a course in Instructional Design (WEL), proposed on AulaWeb and a set of technical seminars giving a survey on many techniques useful for web-based education with the partnership of ITD of CNR (Institute of Didactic Technology of National Centre of Research) of Genoa. In order to get an evaluation of the quality of all the educational offer, we participated this year to the UNIQUe project for University Accreditation on the use of ICT in teaching; the results of this process are still underway.
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