Publication details
Integrating Personalized Learning with Industrial Cooperation
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | DIVAI 2014: 10TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON DISTANCE LEARNING IN APPLIED INFORMATICS |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Collaborative learning; Computer and Information Science Education; Business |
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| Description | The paper compares approaches used at the best institutions worldwide based on open online courses (MOOC) with massive impact (thousands, tens of thousands of participants in a course and millions all together), and approaches applied in our context, which in principle can not benefit from a globally known institution name neither bet on secondary effects, such as attracting me hundreds of potential quality candidates for postgraduate studies at them in large. The model used at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics is based more on individualization of learning passages for students from a much narrower region (Czech Republic, Slovakia and surroundings) but can benefit from long-term, close, and rich collaboration with companies of various character and focus. Technology alone played there a less important role - automation of management of the entire passage is difficult and not so essential. Anyway, it is important to grasp the process, tracking outcomes, quality and integration in the context of those programs rather than creation of new study programs for students massively coming from outside. What is common for both approaches is a focus on the individual needs of learners and sustainability that are addressed by both approaches but much different ways. |