This graduation project deals with the analysis of the actual state of the eLearning, teaching aids available and the proposal of the proper teaching aid for subject The Operations and System Analysis. The whole project is divided into the five parts. The first one is the introduction, the second part defines and concretises the main goal and used methods of this thesis. Further chapter contains theoretical explications of the given topic from the point of view of several authors and other resources. The fourth part pursues the comparison and analysis of the existing software. The results of this analysis, their presentation and evaluation you can find, together with the proper teaching aid prototype, in the last chapter.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Research has shown that collaborative eLearning can provide educational opportunities to groups of learners; both distance learners as well as traditional campus-based learners. It provides innovative educational methods in which learning can be constructed. The way collaborative eLearning is administered, managed, used and adopted can assist in providing information for future design and improvement of collaborative software. The objective of this research is to provide an insight into adoption and use of collaborative eLearning environments and to discover new determinants of usage. To examine the usage of an eLearning environment at the University of the Western Cape, a cross-sectional survey was conducted with Computer Science students. While this study is specific to this university, the underlying principles can be generalised to other organisational types. This study is quantitative and qualitative in nature as well as deductive and inductive. Three hundred and six valid questionnaires were analysed using quantitative methods. Soft Systems Methodology was used to manage the research process and to create conceptual models to explain the research problem and identify solutions. It was a cyclical process. Findings show that although the university’s eLearning platform is utilised, students seem to prefer free and open source platforms. They use social and collaborative applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Docs as well as email messages. Four types of technology affordances: communicative-affordance, document share-affordance, course resource-affordance, and integrity-affordance were identified as being relevant in their choice of application. Furthermore, culture—masculinity/femininity, individualism/collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, and Power Distance—also have an effect on the adoption of collaborative eLearning applications and software the students used for learning. Chi-Square analysis found that individualism/collectivism and Power Distance were both significant and related to the adoption and usage of collaborative eLearning. Gender was found not to be a determinant of how students view the use of collaborative eLearning software applications. Finally, it was also found that understanding use and user behaviour, could provide the theoretical guidance to inform collaborative eLearning design. The analysis and findings show that culture influences the adoption of collaborative eLearning while technology affordance plays a major role in the use of collaborative eLearning.

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ELearning at the secondary level is an emerging concept educators are exploring throughout Tennessee. Educators at Tennessee High School implemented a system of eLearning that improved their graduation rate, extended the educational day, and gave administrators more tools to use in helping students achieve success. Tennessee High School's model for eLearning developed over a 3-year time span and has substantially impacted the students in Bristol, Tennessee. Tennessee High School's administration, in concert with faculty, developed an innovative method of challenging their students with a relatively new means of delivering education. By implementing a completely web based method of delivering instruction, they created an alternative approach to instructional delivery for students lacking credits for on-time graduation as well as those with discipline problems. Furthermore, they developed teacher professional development programs using this delivery system. This case study focuses on the barriers, benefits, and components of Tennessee High School's eLearning implementation. These barriers that include such items as cost, policy formation, and curriculum development were all new concepts for the educators at Tennessee High School. This case documents how the benefits reaped by eLearning have impacted the students at THS. For example, the ability to offer more courses to students that fit almost any schedule has reduced scheduling conflicts. Administrators have enjoyed having another tool to work with concerning student discipline as well.

The newly hired teachers at the Missionary Training Center are expected to learn to teach foreign language well enough to prepare students to communicate functionally in that language within 2-3 months. These teachers have very little to no language teaching experience and must tend to the responsibilities of this part-time job while juggling the demands of full-time school work and social lives. This report details the design and development of a prototype training program aimed to initiate young teachers into the culture of methods and tools employed at the MTC by walking them through the process of planning their first language lesson. The Missionary Training Center has a rich culture of language learning practices. While there are specific expectations related to language teaching espoused by MTC administration, there is also a strong community of language teachers who routinely adapt MTC methods and invent practices to best meet the needs of their students. This project is an attempt to balance the request to develop particular competencies with the need for new teachers to be assimilated into the community of language teachers. This is done by infusing an objective training program with constructivist values, including authentic activity, modeling, representing multiple perspectives, generating, and reflecting.

Aus der Ausgangssituation. "In den letzten Jahren wurden dem eLearning-Markt überproportionale Wachstumsraten durch die verschiedenen Marktanalysen vorhergesagt. Die ersten Prognosen sind nicht eingetreten. Trotz der allgemeinen Vorsicht werden auch in aktuelleren Marktanalysen höhere Ausgaben für eLearning in den Unternehmen prognostiziert (vgl. z. B. DETECON 02, S. 6, WANG u. a. 02, S. 230 und BENTLAGE u. a. 02, S. 131f.). Je nach Studie ist mit einem weltweiten eLearning-Marktvolumen von ca. 20 bis 40 Mrd. Dollar für 2004 zu rechnen (GRAUMANN u. a. 03, S. 422). Weiterhin kann bei der Betrachtung der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zu eLearning, sowohl aus methodischdidaktischer als auch aus technologischer Sicht, von positiven Rahmenbedingungen ausgegangen werden."

This study explores educational leadership within and across two of NZ’s eLearning clusters. Two complementary perspectives of educational leadership are used to frame the investigation: instructional leadership and distributed leadership. The research was conducted approximately nine months after the cessation of a two-year Ministry subsidy for the employment of 12 ePrincipals and at a time when Ultrafast Broadband was imminent for nearly all NZ schools. The literature review explores aspects of two areas related to eLearning leadership: conventional educational leadership in ‘bricks-and-mortar’ schooling contexts and eLearning/eTeaching in virtual schooling contexts. Data was gathered from semistructured interviews with twelve school-based research participants (ePrincipals, eTeachers, Site Supervisors and Principals) across two of NZ’s eLearning clusters and four National Officials with responsibilities for wider forms of eLearning. The findings are presented in a manner that attempts to capture directly the research participants’ voices, while still maintaining confidentiality and anonymity. The findings are discussed using an ecological perspective of eLearning as the unifying framework to explore the leadership across nested and interacting layers, from the micro-level of an eLearning class to the macro-level of NZ’s system for secondary education. The major findings from the study indicate that educational leadership in eLearning clusters is complex, relies heavily on goodwill and collaboration, and occurs in a challenging environment. Within an eLearning cluster the leadership of eLearning/eTeaching is distributed primarily across the ePrincipal, eTeachers and Site Supervisors who each assume complementary leadership roles. A raft of recommendations, across all ecosystem levels of eLearning, is proposed for leaders to consider when initiating change to strengthen their practices and policies with respect to enhancing eLearning and eTeaching.

Kooperative Medien sind Softwaretools und Netzdienste, die sowohl synchrone und asynchrone Kommunikation unterstützen als auch den Aufbau virtueller Gemeinschaften ermöglichen. Weblogs sind vor diesem Hintergrund als eine Form web-basierter kooperativer Medien zu verstehen. Solche Medien spielen bei der Gestaltung neuer Lehr- und Lernformen für die Lehre an Hochschulen eine immer stärkere Rolle. In Studienfächern wie Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik treten sie nicht nur als Unterrichtsgegenstände auf, sondern können darüber hinaus auch als Organisations- und Kooperationswerkzeuge sowie zur Reflexion des Medienpotenzials genutzt werden. Anhand eines Unterrichtsversuchs mit Weblogs versucht der Beitrag eine Annäherung an diese didaktische Aufgabenstellung, zugespitzt auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Weblogs in der Hochschullehre. Daneben werden Forschungsfragen, Reichweite und Grenzen des kooperativen Mediums Weblog in Bezug auf die didaktische Einbindung und die Entwicklungs- und Gestaltungsperspektiven kooperativer Medien diskutiert.

Die Evaluation von Lernmanagementsystem (LMS) unter didaktischen Gesichtspunkten hat ergeben, dass es den meisten gängigen LMS an einer brauchbaren Lernfortschrittsanzeige mangelt. Dies ist, wie auch Nutzerbefragungen zeigen, insbesondere in Individuallernszenarien ein gravierendes Problem mit starken Auswirkungen auf die Motivation der Lernenden. Ausgehend von dieser Situation wurde in der Arbeit eine didaktisch begründete Lernfortschrittsanzeige entworfen, implementiert und getestet. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit ist die Bedeutung der Lernfortschrittsanzeige in eLearning-Szenarien unter psychologischen und didaktischen Gesichtspunkten untersucht worden. Dabei wurde zum einen begründet, warum das Fehlen einer solchen Anzeige zu Problemen führt, zum anderen sind aus diesen Untersuchungen heraus Anforderungen an eine sinnvolle Gestaltung einer solchen Anzeige abgeleitet worden. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit ist den ermittelten Anforderungen der IST-Zustand dieses Features in gängigen LMS gegenüber gestellt worden. Dafür wurden acht LMS ausgewählt, die in dieser Hinsicht unterschiedliche Ansätze verfolgen. Anschließend wurde unter Berücksichtigung der vorhergehenden Analysen ein eigener Ansatz entwickelt, prototypisch implementiert und evaluiert.