"MOVE YOUR AVATAR — E-Learning & E-Teaching at Berlin School of Economics and Law"; Talk at London Southbank University PhD Research Conference, 26 June 2014

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E-Learning & E-Teaching at BSEL
Prof. Dr. Marcus Birkenkrahe
about.me/birkenkrahe
msb @ hwr-berlin.de | T. 0174 710 6254

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Roadmap
! Blended Learning at BSEL
! What we‘re about:
Socratic rather than didactic
" Encourage Different Ways of Seeing
" Telling Stories: slams and prototypes
" Solving problems: 2-D and 3-D
" Moving Mountains: MOOC MOOVE

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Blended Learning at the
Berlin School of Economics and Law
" 50 programmes — business school-typical, including
law & services & dual studies
" 2 campuses in East and in West Berlin = worlds apart
not by distance but mindset
" Virtual 2-D teaching in Adobe Connect (free for all
German research schools & universities)
" Virtual 3-D campuses in Second Life® &
in LibertasU (web-based)
" Various multi-author blogs (up to 70 authors) on
special topics (like e-learning, law, etc.)
" Moodle = Learning Management System for ca.
10,000 students & 500 lecturers in Berlin

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What we‘re about
Encouraging
different
ways of
seeing
Telling stories
Solving Problems
Moving mountains
Socratic
rather than
didactic...

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Encourage different ways of seeing

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Telling stories I
From slam: project “eBooks for students”, winter 2013)

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Telling stories II
From video prototype: project “App payment process”, summer 2014)

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Solving problems: 2-D
From Adobe Connect class “Process modeling”; recording”, summer 2014)

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Solving problems: 3-D @Second Life
From Second Life® class “supervision internship”; winter 2013)

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Solving problems: 3-D @LibertasU
From Libertas: my avatar in front of my real face; summer 2013)

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Moving mountains
# xMOOC “Research Methods”
# More audio — less video
# More international collaboration
# More 2-D and more 3-D classes
# App development: more mobile
# If you’re not with us, you’re…
Certainly tomorrow
Rather yesterday
MOOC
Cloud
BYOD
E-Portfolio
MOOVE*
*) Massive Open Online Virtual Education
Gamification

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Thank you for your attention!
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