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The thesis presents a model, suitable for the design of any type of qualification in integrative eGovernment education. The integrative approach combines education of adult learners and students and promotes international cooperation.

In traditional schooling, one-way monologue from teacher to student is the established way of communica­tion in the classroom. Modern pedagogues are presently breaking free of this status quo.  This master thesis explores whether there is a change in the student’s attitudes towards their school­ing and whether there is an academic benefit for the student when applying a flipped class­room model. This study was performed in Swedish upper secondary school during the students’ last course in mathematics. The study was carried out using focus group interviews and direct participat­ing observation. During the six-week period of interviews and participating in the class­room written tasks were collected and analysed, and the classroom was filmed to help analysing behav­iour of the students, both with flipped classroom and without. The outcome shows positive reac­tions from the students concerning this change in pedagogics, but also some inertia in some individuals. The result shows a positive attitude change concerning communication and collabora­tion in the classroom, although no difference in academic achievement were visible. More studies are needed, but a theoretical base needs to be built before future studies can be con­ducted. Today flipped classroom is undertheorized in ways of an academic model. Future research could be theorizing flipped classroom and exploring whether implementing this pedagogic model also brings forth a change in academic achievement apart from changing the attitudes of the stu­dents.

This practical paper presents a successful international teaching & learning project in Higher Education (HE), which can be used as blue print for similar international HE teaching/learning cooperations. A virtual module, delivering 5 ECTS to participants from Germany and Iran, was organized as flipped classroom (FC), consisting of 2 phases: (1) online phase of 7 weeks, having started at April 12, 2019, with 15 students from Shiraz University, Iran, and 23 students from TU Dresden, Germany, collaborating in mixed teams of 5–6 participants each on a complex business case under tight guidance by qualified learning community managers, and (2) a follow-up on-site meeting at TU Dresden in the first week of July with 3 intensive workshops applying different techniques to consolidate the prior online collaboration results.

This dissertation deals with the developing and development of EFL learners' communicative competence in writing in a blended learning course. The dissertation addresses issues related to the conceptualization of developing communicative competence and measuring learners' progress as well as using ICT in foreign language teaching. The underlying research question was whether learners' communicative competence changed after using a series of online discussion tasks, and if so, in what manner. The empirical research was conducted as a case study in which 18 learners in an EFL course at the CEFR A2 level participated in three discussion tasks conducted online, using asynchronous discussion forum. The discussions were built on social constructivist learning theories. Methods of data collection and analysis included pre- and post-tests, learner corpus compiled from the texts written by the students in two online discussions and its analysis, and a questionnaire survey. The results showed that learners' overall level of communicative competence in writing improved. Specifically, the syntactic complexity of learners' language produced at the beginning and at the end of the course increased and learners' perceived fluency in writing improved. These findings support the claim that learners' active participation in...

In response to the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Swedish National Agency for Education and the Public Health Agency of Sweden recommended that all upper secondary schools in Sweden would temporarily transition to distance education. A report was simultaneously ordered by the Swedish School Inspectorate, which would monitor the effects the distance education had on Swedish upper secondary schools. The report found that many areas of the Swedish upper secondary school had suffered during the period of distance education. The purpose for this essay is to examine how the findings of the report corresponds with the experiences in German teaching at upper secondary level, one year after the publishing of the original report. An interview with a teacher of German was conducted, who had spent the last three semesters teaching German in an upper secondary school, which mostly was spent via online teaching due to the recommendations from the Public Health Agency. The findings suggest that most of the negative consequences highlighted by the report coincide with the experiences in teaching of German as a foreign language, although many of the findings also apply to other parts of the schoolsystem as well. The findings, furthermore, seem to indicate that certain aspects of what was highlighted by the report could potentially affect foreign language teaching especially, as language learning depends on interactional factors to be successful. The gradual return of present learning has also created a situation of hybrid learning, which only seem to affect certain parts of the school system, German teaching included. To combat similar situations with negative effects in the future, this essay aims to discuss ways in which to actively work towards a teaching approach that is affected to a lesser extent than have been monitored during the covid-19 pandemic. Ways in which to improve future teaching include actively fostering good motivational practices and adapting to working methods which combine the positives of both present and online teaching practices.

Interaction is a core element in the design of blended and distance learning environments. The importance of understanding these interactions and what might increase effectiveness of such interactions in education is paramount for meaningful learning. This dissertation consists of two qualitative case studies designed to provide a rich, descriptive look at interactions in a high school distance/blended-learning context in the home-study and technology-meditated seminary program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the study article, Moore's (1989) interaction framework was used as a lens for understanding the learner experience. Thematic narratives were used to highlight themes related to students' perceived learning gains from learner-content interaction and their hesitancy to engage in learner-learner and learner-instructor interactions if they had not met personally. In the second study, Garrison's (2007) Community of Inquiry framework was used to understand the impact that teacher decisions, other than the selection of content, had on the cognitive and social climate of the learning experience. This study describes how a teacher's facilitation of social interaction influences the course learning outcomes. The results highlight the teacher's role in providing the educational and social climate needed to foster learner interactions. This study noted that when the teachers gave learners the opportunity to interact in a live setting, it appeared to foster the relationships needed to interact online. The narratives also highlight how a teacher helped learners interact with one another around content online.

[pt] O presente estudo surgiu, orientado pela necessidade de sistematizar uma experiência diferenciada, no Ensino de Design, com práticas pedagógicas disruptivas, voltadas para o desenvolvimento humano, mediadas por dinâmicas vivenciais e apoiadas pelas redes sociais. Diante da expertise adquirida na prática profissional da autora e do cenário educacional atual, com todas as benesses e agruras tecnológicas e digitais, essa pesquisa propõe uma aproximação do Ensino de Design à educação voltada ao desenvolvimento harmônico do Ser, em todas as suas dimensões. Para isso, percorre o Caminho Quádruplo, que se baseia nas raízes míticas mais profundas da humanidade. Seus aspectos, mental, corporal, social, cultural, bem como as funções da consciência, pensamento, sensação, sentimento e intuição, são estimuladas por meio do ensino híbrido, da interação e da colaboração, apoiadas pelas redes sociais, utilizadas como plataformas de aprendizagem. É nesta bidirecionalidade, entre dois mundos: o de saberes ancestrais e um mundo tecnológico que este trabalho aponta novas práticas pedagógicas que contribuem para uma formação interdisciplinar e transcultural do estudante de Design. Para que essa aproximação fosse possível, a pesquisa se delineou em algumas etapas. A primeira esclarece alguns conceitos fundamentais em que este trabalho se inscreve, a segunda mostra o caminho pessoal da autora, que deu origem a esse trabalho, na terceira etapa se inicia a jornada pelo Caminho Quádruplo dividida em: O caminho do Guerreiro (Dimensão Social - Pensamento), O caminho do Curador (Dimensão Corporal – Sensação), O caminho do Visionário (Dimensão Cultural – Intuição) e o caminho do Mestre (Dimensão Mental – Sentimento). Por fim a quarta etapa aponta para a despedida deste caminhar de forma integrada. / [en] The present study emerged, guided by the need to systematize a differentiated experience, in Design Teaching, with disruptive pedagogical practices, focused on human development, mediated by experiential dynamics and supported by social networks. Given the expertise acquired in the author s professional practice and the current educational scenario, with all the technological and digital benefits and hardships, this research proposes an approximation of Design Teaching to education aimed at the harmonious development of the Being, in all its dimensions. To do so, it follows the Quadruple Path, which is based on the deepest mythical roots of humanity. Its mental, bodily, social, cultural aspects, as well as the functions of consciousness, thought, sensation, feeling and intuition, are stimulated through blended learning, interaction and collaboration, supported by social networks, used as learning platforms. It is in this bidirectionality, between two worlds: that of ancestral knowledge and a technological world that this work points out new pedagogical practices that contribute to an interdisciplinary and transcultural training of the Design student. For this approximation to be possible, the research was outlined in some stages. The first clarifies some fundamental concepts in which this work is inscribed, the second shows the author s personal path, which gave rise to this work, in the third stage begins the journey through the Quadruple Path divided into: The Warrior s Path (Social Dimension - Thought), The Healer s Path (Body Dimension - Sensation), The Visionary s Path (Cultural Dimension - Intuition) and the Master s Path (Mental Dimension - Feeling). Finally, the fourth stage points to the farewell of this walk in an integrated way.

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