In all there are approximately 700 students in this school and there are 25 different classes held for them. Students here mainly learn natural science which is divided into 3 modules and each module further is divided to a certain number of classes. Module 1 includes pure natural science, module 2 includes programming and module 3 includes health care classes. The strength of each class is 30. As of now there are 9 class in which each student has a computer of their own provided to them by the school. They started off with this type of facility just for one class as an experiment to check out whether this facility helped improve learning or went waste. As they got better results they moved on and as Tony sir says they expect every student to get a computer of their own by the end of 2 more years.
The school has a website of its own which is https//www.vklass.se just as we do in our college. But their site is technically more like facebook wherein the students have their own profiles with the basic information. They can blog, post comments, upload pictures and even chat via this website. This website is also integrated with Microsoft, Skydrive as well as Facebook. Here the students and teachers even have an opportunity of sending messages through the guestbook which can even be personalised whenever necessary. Similar to the SMS facility available in our college, the students as well as teachers here get notifications about the recent happenings via their email ids. This website also has a link through which the teachers upload the notes of the lessons in advance, before they begin with the particular lesson so that the students come prepared for the class. Besides it also provides the students who are absent or unable to attend the lecture the ability to access the notes and get a good insight in it. Students also have the benefit of getting their attendance records, marksheets as well as their time table on this site. Besides this the parents also have certain abilities like they can acesss a separate site providing the necessary details of their ward and thereby can also be in touch with the teachers about the progress of their children.
Did you get an opportunity to see the quality of lecture notes uploaded on their website?
ReplyDeleteDo they use Moodle? and what is students response to the e-learning?
Looks amazing!!!! /I look forward to your feedback /thanks for this man it was very helpful.
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Great insights Urvi. Try to get usage analysis of various web services used by the students/teachers and on what technologies they are based.
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ReplyDeleteNo sir, actually we had a very short session that day so dint get the time to view the quality of notes uploaded. But yes sir if i get time to do so i shall surely do it on monday.
Yes, they use moodle. The students prefer e-learning because they get an access to the notes of the lecture one day in advance as a result of which they can go prepared to class and even if they miss the class due to some reasons they can view the videos uploaded and study.
Yes kaustubh i'll try to do so if i get time.
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