The document discusses the development of a digital education ecosystem at Politehnica University of Timișoara in Romania. It outlines how the university has built up its digital infrastructure over time, including developing its learning management system, integrating new tools, and creating a virtual campus. It also describes how the university rapidly transitioned to remote education in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Key aspects of the university's digital ecosystem include its virtual campus, various elearning tools and platforms, open educational resources, MOOCs, virtual mobility programs, and efforts to support digital skills development among students, faculty and the broader community.

1. Building up a Digital
Education Eco-system
Dr. Andrei Ternauciuc, Main Moodle Administrator
Dr. Diana Andone, Director
eLearning Center
Politehnica Universitatea Timișoara, Romania – UPT
@diando70 Moodle Moot Global 2020, virtual, 22-24 June 2020

5. Digitisation - Core
Learning Management System
Learning Record Stores
Content Management and Curation
Degree & Curriculum management
Attendance Monitoring
Learning Experience
MOOC Platform
Website
Social media channels

6. CVUPT – Virtual Campus Development
Initiated in 2006 on Moodle
Personalised by UPT Team
New modules integrated
Translation
Campus Virtual (www.cv.upt.ro)
Moodle
Mobile app

7. Digitalisation
Digital Education Eco-system
UPT Remote education

8. Digital Education Eco-system - UPT Remote education
Politehnica University of Timișoara
Plan & Strategy in 13 March 2020
Methodologies, guides, training,
support
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/comunit
ate/noutati-comunitate/de-la-
educatia-in-campus-la-cea-online/

9. Digital Education Eco-system - UPT Remote education
Virtual Campus of UPT
Microsoft Teams
Zoom

10. Digitalisation: Digital Education Eco-system
CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
CLOSED
Moodle
System

11. CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
Tools we developed: Advanced user administration

12. CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
Tools we developed: Improved user upload

13. CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
Tools we developed: Multiple course reset

14. CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
Tools we developed: Teacher reporting tool

15. CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
Tools we developed: Additional sign-up

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CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus
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Wiki Questionnaire Choice Glossary H5P VPL

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Private messages

19. Digitalisation: Digital Education Eco-system
CVUPT – UPT Virtual Campus

20. Students evaluation & finals
Written exams under video supervision
• Multiple choice Quizz (adapted Moodle)
• Question Banks
• Final exam for graduation 0 500 1000 1500 2000
ID
Licență
Master
Total Quiz-uri
S1 S2 - preQ S2 - postQ

21. Students evaluation
& finals
Multiple choice
Portfolio
Wiki Collaborative (wikipedia)
Debate online (asynchronous – synchronous)
Vlog - Blog - Podcast
Online Presentation
Group project
Hacktahon
Video – OERs
Glossary
Reflective journal
Peer assessment

22. Digitalisation: Support
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/campus-virtual/
38 training and support webinars
43 h

23. Digitalisation: Support
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/campus-virtual/
43 tutorials and Guides
40% partially created by
students
15% by other UPT
colleagues
14 external tools tutorials
and guides
5000 messages (tickets)
(highest 320/day)

24. Remote learning
1-1 hours from face-to-face to online
Too many hours of videoconference – synchronous learning
Digital Divide (students / professors)
Digital skills

25. since 2014
UniCampus - Romanian MOOC

26. UniCampus OEW2016 - video

27. www.digiculture.eu

28. 1. The Internet,
World Wide Web
and introduction to
the digital world
2. Digital Content &
Publishing
(including wikis)
3. Data Protection
and Open Licenses
4. Digital Curation -
Digital Libraries and
Museums
5. Digital Safety,
Security and Ethics
6. Digital
Storytelling
7. Digital Audiences,
Digital Analytics
(Google, Facebook,
Twitter, SEO)
8. Social Media for
Culture
9. Augmented and
Virtual Reality
10. Mobile Apps
and Mobile User
Experience
11. Digital
Management in
Culture
12. Digital
Communication &
Presentations
13. Online and
Mobile Digital
Media Tools (audio-
video)
DigiCulture Courses – online/ blended learning, free course
Digital Skills courses & e-assessment tool
Open Badges for Digital Skills
under the Creative Commons License

29. UniCampus -
Romanian MOOCs
=> DigiCulture
courses

30. UniCampus - Romanian MOOCs
=> DigiCulture courses

31. UniCampus -
Romanian MOOCs
=> DigiCulture
courses
www.digiculture.eu

32. Digitisation
Content
Skills

33. Digitisation: Content
Interactive
(H5P, Quiz/test in Moodle)
~ 20.000 new resources

34. Digitisation: Skills
Workshops,
Conferences
Workshops
Opening Up Education – since 2014
Digital Competences – since 2013
GirlsTech – since 2016
International conferences
500 participants

35. Digitisation: Content, Skills - Projects
ABCtoVLE Erasmus+ Project

36. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License
@ABCtoVLE
https://abc-ld.org/abc-to-vle/
Practice
Acquisition
Collaboration
DiscussionInvestigation
Production
M
O
O
C
assignment
Virtual patients
Virtual labs
models
Open textbooks
eportfolios
Audio books
SCORM
SCORM
SCORM
podcasts
infographics
ABCtoVLE Erasmus+ project - UPT
ABCtoVLE Tools
H5P interactive Diagram
Webpage with tools tutorials
Video

37. ABCtoVLE Erasmus+ project - UPT
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/project/abc-to-vle-
beyond-curriculum-design-2

38. Digitalisation
Digital Education Eco-system
Collaboration
Co-creators
Collaboration
Virtual mobilities

39. Todaystudentswilllearnindependentanddigitalalltheirlife
OPEN life long learning STUDENT
21stcenturyskills/
futureskills
Aretheyreadyto identify,access,learn,analyse,apply,practicenewknowledgeacrossdifferentmedia,
information,communication,toolsastoenhancetheirskillsanddeveloptheircareers?

40. Virtual
Mobilities
HowtodevelopOpenlife-longlearningstudents
forthe21st centurysociety?
MOOC
Virtual
Campus
OER
Co-
creators
Micro-
credentials
Since 2015

41. Digitalisation: Co-creators - Assignments
disposable assignments: literally throwing away 2 million hours of work
each semester
renewable assignments: projects, artifacts, lab, companies, OER / to be
adapted each year

42. Students OER creators
Students will create an OER based on a specific topic (2 students in a
team)Create
Understand, research, analyse for a dedicated topicUnderstand
Use multimedia creator toolsUse
Understand Open education principles, Creative Commons LicencesUnderstand
Peer evaluation - Validated by their colleaguesPeer
publicationRecognition

43. Digitalisation: Co-creators - Assignments

44. TalkTech 2008 -2019 Students
1250 students involved, no dropout
Boston, Bentley Univ
Intro to Information Technology
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 19-22
Timisoara, UPT
Multimedia Technologies
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 21-22
International Virtual Mobilities

45. Motivation
Entrepreneurship
Virtual mobility – learn, work online with limited supervision
Global workspace environment
Multicultural
Digital skills
International Collaboration
Open Education

46. Liberty Square,
Timisoara
AR (cospaces)
VR (Aurasma)
46
TalkTech
2017 Students

47. Disclaimer: The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under
grant no. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003494. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible
for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.
Designing the Virtual Mobility Learning
Hub for Higher Education in Europe
http://www.openvirtualmobility.eu
Launched OpenVM Learning Hub & Mobile App in May 2019
https://hub.openvirtualmobility.eu/

48. Course implementation
Open Virtual Mobility | www.openvirtualmobility.eu | @openVM_erasmus
24 courses to get ready for Virtual mobilities
Open Credentials to recognise virtual
mobility skills
Opening the skill recognition!

49. OpenVM Learning Hub & Mobile App
Open Virtual Mobility | www.openvirtualmobility.eu | @openVM_erasmus
LRS

50. External LRS
xAPI logstore plugin
API to check and
display badge

52. Total users: 1456
Role assignments: 5634
Total courses: 58
Forum posts: 1419
Quiz attempts: 10965
Bestr badges issued: 1957

54. Digital Transformation
Academic Culture changes
Learning transformation

55. https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/impreuna-online/

56. Academic Culture changes
0%1%0%
30%
3%66%
Institution
Association / NGO
Company
Ministry of Education
andResearch
Pre-university
Student
University
12%
10%
17%
9%19%
10%
6%
5%
7%5%
Participants
Webinar 1
Webinar 2
Webinar 3
Webinar 4
Webinar 5
Webinar 6
Webinar 7
Webinar 8
Webinar 9
57%
8%
30%
1%4%
How do you rate the webinar?
Very useful
Quite useful
Useful
Not useful at all
Blank
2807 registrations
2200 participants
62 institutions

57. Academic Culture changes
Impreuna Online – Open badge
30 BADGES 2,241 AWARDS

58. Discover
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/open/
GHID
RESURSE
CURS Online

59. Uncertainty
New academic year 2020-2021 and beyond
In campus / Online / blended
Tiredness, lack of patience
Digital Divide
Time to plan, train, implement

60. Change of
the
paradigme

61. Contact
Dr. Diana Andone
Director
e-Learning Center
Politehnica University ofTimisoara
Romania
Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
Elearning.upt.ro/diana.andone
@diando70
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
EDEN Fellow 2011, EDEN Vice-president
IEEE Romania Education Chair,
IEEE Computer Society, TCLT Open Chair
IEEE Education and Women in Engineering
Moodle Moot Global 2020 virtual, 6-9 July 2020
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/
Elearning.upt.ro
cv.upt.ro
Unicampus.ro