Ucm digital Objects Workshop Visit Report
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| UCM Digital Objects Workshop Visit Report
Institution: Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM) Date of the visit: 7th – 9th July 2010 Facilitators: Andrew Moore IntroductionThe workshop, held at the Centre for Distance Education at UCM in Beira, was designed to capacitate a small group of technical people to offer support to academic course developers and distance education materials writers in the creation of digital objects to supplement LMS courses and the Distance Education CD ROM materials. The focus of the course was to develop digital video, screen capture video and to create interactive objects (animation, simulations and drag n drop activities) using Flash. Workshop structure and activitiesIn the three days of the workshop, the following aspects of e-courseware development were covered. The activities planned for the workshop are presented in Table 1 below. Table 1: Actual workshop structure and activities
Workshop attendanceNine participants attended the workshop. The following individuals attended at least part of the course: Micaela Roberto Vitorino Ribeiro Sidney Macumbe Antonio Paunde Junior Celostino Pempe Taregererwa Maforo Mauro Ribeiro Rozendo Pedro Amilcar Junior
FeedbackThe core team was especially motivated and keen working late in otrder to complete assignments. They also produced some excellent products namely video and flash objects designed to support Moodle courses. The team has been ear marked to not only supply digital objects but too train new faculty members. Progress with PHEA ETI projectsUCM has five PHEA ETI projects and progress on these is varied. Table 3 reflects the UCM projects and the project leaders. Table 2: UCM PHEA ETI projects and leaders
Project 1 This project by its very nature has political undertones. Delays have been due to posturing and the need to build alliances as vacancies in the senior structure are scheduled to opened up. A senior management meeting, however, is scheduled for September 2010 where issues relating to policy will be discussed including ICT. A stakeholders meeting is due to take place in August specifically for the ICT policy and related documents. Various documents are in the process of development. An ICT policy document has been drafted but currently still needs a strategy to the deployment of e-Learning within the institution. Project 2. (As reported in the LMS II report) A meeting with Konrad Steidel was organized and discussions took place about the project. He has given permission for this project to commence on August 13th and 14th. In the meantime SAIDE will be required to plan the initial workshop and collect an initial set of OER for distribution by OER. The following subjects have been identified by Peter Hillard who is the project leader: Medicine: Anatomy (on-line teaching materials with illustrations, interactive learning) Histology ( on-line teaching materials with illustrations, interactive learning) Radiology teaching slides oriented toward 3rd world problems of plain xrays (not advanced imaging modalities like MRI) Epidemiology slides and case-based learning with problem sets Infectious disease case-based learning Physiology (any learning method except video/audio) Problem-based learning cases in any area Disaster relief interactive learning materials. English (interactive learning) Gastroenterology Dermatology Primary care case-based learning Procedure skills learning materials (measuring blood pressure, microscopy, starting IVs and drawing blood, examination of the heart) Physical exam interactive learning Ultrasound (how to perform and interpret results) Nursing: Any slides/teaching materials in Portuguese for general nursing (not midwifery) Projects 3 moved further forward (see LMS II report) as the Digital Objects workshop has capacitated a team to offer multimedia skills. The workshop was visited by a number of delegations. One group was from Millenium Bim (Bank) based in Maputu who were looking at the viability of growth within the CED and its need for funding while expanding. (The loan would be based on recouping debt owed by CED students to UCM). The second group from Makerere University (Uganda) has been contracted by the Ministry of Education and NUFFIC to determine the growth of e-learning in Mozambique and to determine where consultancy personnel can be drawn to encourage further growth in the country and region. All reported to be impressed with UCM progress and consider the institution a leader in this field. Project 4 (As reported in LMS II report) seems to have new momentum after Monica Mowayo’s visit last week. Sam K reports the visit was useful and the research has been tweaked and new instruments developed as a consequence of her interactions. Also a cache of new researchers have been trained and will be deployed in both projects 3 & 4. Project 5 This project has been slow to develop as a consequence of various changes in the leadership of the Distance Education Unit (CED). Margarita was replaced by Chombo and he by Wisdom Machacha. A new direction has been charted. The coordinators are currently involved with an overhaul of the curriculum. New course outlines and course maps are being developed as a priority and materials are being reworked to improve quality. Consequently the development of electronic support materials and ICT capacity for coordinators, tutors and students has been held over in part until the basic planning has been completed. Conclusion: Synthesis and ReflectionAreas of success: The workshop was popular and participants were committed and engaged, working late and developing materials of a good standard. They used the facilitator’s knowledge and skills and were not afraid to ask yet wanted to work independently. There is an overlap of the participants selected for training and those trained to develop LMS courses. This means the team is well capacitated to develop educational materials that are strong pedagogically as well as technically sophisticated. Areas of challenge: The skills developed are not well known by staff and might be underutilized. Also this team now might be poached by other institutions who seek these skills. UCM will have to manage their talent if they want to keep them. The Vice Rector, Father Ponsi, is particularly concerned about this while Wisdom Machacha feels sending out his team further afield to train others will spread the cache of UCM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||