EduTech Wiki:About

Welcome to EduTechWiki !

By Daniel K. Schneider Feb 2006 / Feb 2007.

Purpose and Scope of EduTech Wiki

• Originally, this Wiki has been created as support for a course on "Virtual Projects" (project-oriented pedagogies) by a team from TECFA in the framework of eTeach-Net, a joint project involving 9 higher education institutions in Switzerland.

• DKS uses it to prepare an introduction to the field of educational technology ( outline ) and as such this wiki can be used as a research tool for student projects. With some additions, it may become a light-weight cognitive flexibility hypertext

• Both wikis (en/fr) are used within courses of TECFA's MALTT MSc program in educational technology. Students can participate in wiki writing trough a formal writing-to-learn course, i.e STIC-3 in fall 2006. Others prepare literature reviews for their master or PhD thesis projects (see the french version).

• You may use this place as a starting point for literature reviews. We try to include many on-line references, but some are access restricted.

• You also may use it for your own teaching. If you plan to involve your students with writing activities, please send DSchneider a short mail. Typically, students are not used to wiki writing and I may have to recall a few editorial guidelines once they get going.

Plans for the larger community

• This Wiki is open to larger public for writing. However, we will keep control. But there are less constraints than for Wikipedia and you may sign your contributions with your name and organization. Also, overall organization (e.g. categories) will certainly evolve.

• Please have a look at editorial guidelines.

History and origin of this Wiki

This Wiki was initiated within module 7 of eTeach-Net, a Swiss virtual campus project that will end by March 2007.

The eTeach-Net Project

eTeach-Net was a joint project involving 9 higher education institutions in Switzerland (UniGE, UniSG, UniBS,USI, ETHZ, SUPSI, BFH, FHNW, ZFH) and also training organizations. The major objective of the project was to develop reusable teaching modules about technical, pedagogical and didactic concepts of e-teaching. These modules are mainly integrated into the curricula of postgraduate studies: For example a sequence of five modules are part of a course for the International Engineering Educator Diploma (ING-PAED IGIP).

Some of the materials/activities developed are also used for faculty development (in particular by partners from support structures).

Module 7 "Virtual Projects"

This Wiki has been set up for the Module 7 "Virtual Projects" course. Projects have become the common element of almost any work activity. The module introduces methods and tools for the efficient organization and management of project-based teaching. The principal role of this Wiki initially was to support writing-to-learn teaching scenarios we use with our students, i.e. although we did write pieces on project-oriented learning ourselves, other pieces are added by students and existing content is altered and/or annotated by students.

Module 7 team members were: Daniel K. Schneider (eTeach-Net and module 7 project leader), Roberto Ortelli (eTeach-Net coordinator, left project in June 2006), and Stephane Lattion (left project in Dec 2007) and [[User:Kalli | Kalli Benetos] (from Jan-March 2007).

• While this Wiki has been initiated trough the eTech-Net project, DKS decided in Feb. 2006 to expand the scope of what was inititially planned within the framework of module 7 to the whole domain of educational technology. Therefore we also changed the name of this wiki from "eTeach-Net Wiki" to "Edutech Wiki"....