MOVE YOUR AVATAR E-Learning & E-Teaching at BSEL

Prof. Dr. Marcus Birkenkrahe

about.me/birkenkrahe msb @ hwr-berlin.de | T. 0174 710 6254

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Roadmap

!  Blended Learning at BSEL

!  What we‘re about:

Socratic rather than didactic

"  Encourage Different Ways of Seeing

"  Telling Stories: slams and prototypes

"  Solving problems: 2-D and 3-D

"  Moving Mountains: MOOC MOOVE

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Blended Learning at the Berlin School of Economics and Law

" 50 programmes — business school-typical, including law & services & dual studies

"  2 campuses in East and in West Berlin = worlds apart not by distance but mindset

"  Virtual 2-D teaching in Adobe Connect (free for all German research schools & universities)

"  Virtual 3-D campuses in Second Life® & in LibertasU (web-based)

"  Various multi-author blogs (up to 70 authors) on special topics (like e-learning, law, etc.)

"  Moodle = Learning Management System for ca. 10,000 students & 500 lecturers in Berlin

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What we‘re about

Encouraging different ways of seeing

Telling stories

Solving Problems

Moving mountains

Socratic rather than didactic...

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Encourage different ways of seeing

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Telling stories I

From slam: project “eBooks for students”, winter 2013)

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Telling stories II

From video prototype: project “App payment process”, summer 2014)

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Solving problems: 2-D

From Adobe Connect class “Process modeling”; recording”, summer 2014)

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Solving problems: 3-D @Second Life

From Second Life® class “supervision internship”; winter 2013)

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Solving problems: 3-D @LibertasU

From Libertas: my avatar in front of my real face; summer 2013)

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Moving mountains

#  xMOOC “Research Methods”

#  More audio — less video

#  More international collaboration

#  More 2-D and more 3-D classes

#  App development: more mobile

#  If you’re not with us, you’re…

Certainly tomorrow

Rather yesterday

MOOC Cloud

BYOD

E-Portfolio

MOOVE*

*) Massive Open Online Virtual Education

Gamification

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Thank you for your attention!

Fragen? Questions? вопросы? ¿Preguntas?