This document summarizes information about HOWEST University College West-Flanders in Belgium. It provides details about HOWEST such as its approximately 6000 students and 838 staff members across 24 bachelor and 7 master's degree programs. It discusses Belgium's qualifications framework and the importance of e-learning and lifelong learning. The document also outlines some of the issues with e-learning in Belgium, including low success rates, and the need for teachers and programs to adapt. It provides three examples of good e-learning practices used at HOWEST.
2. Nice to meet you!
Liesbeth De Blaere,
Staff member HOWEST – University College West-Flandres
Belgium
3. Who are we?
E-learning in Belgium
Issues concerning e-learning
Examples of Belgian e-learning
4. • +/- 6000 students
• 24 bachelor programs and 7 master programs
• Architecture
• Health care
• Business and management
• Industrial sciences and technology
• Education
• Social sciences
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5. Flemish qualification structure
• Implementation of EQF
• Qualifications: set of competences that lead to
legal certificate
• Education
• EVC
• Qualifications: base for LLL
• Importance of e-learning
• Level 5, 6, 7 and 8
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6. E-learning in practice:
• Since 2006: distance education trails
• Still trial and error; first technology, then pedagogy
• Initiatives to cooperate with each other & with open university
• Design courses together <> Coaching students in each individual
institution
• For whom?
• Everybody, but succes rates increase:
• EVC’s (earlier adopted competences)
• EVK’s (earlier adopted competences)
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7. Issues concerning e-learning
• Succes rates low (students)
• Social aspects?
• Activities? Course material?
• Combination of work, social life, family,
study…
• ?
• Teachers need to adjust as well
• TPACK-model…
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8. • Need for (more) agreements between
different education programs
• from 1 level to another
• from 1 program to another
• Technology is not the answer to everything
• Don’t use it just to use it…
It must “WORK”; research must show
the assets
9. Good Practice 1
• Peer assessment tool in ELO
• Dokeos Chamilo
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