The Didactic Impact of the ETN FETCH Project

The ETN FETCH project is about Future Education and Training. One of the goals was to develop new didactic models and to include social media in the process of teaching and learning. Some new didactic models have been developed. We will report about them in this paper. FETCH partners also performed some experiments using innovative teaching...

Dropout rates of regular courses and MOOCs

Recently we observe an enormous grow of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). But it proves that the dropout rates of MOOCs are very high. One of the main causes are missing of necessary capabilities of students, inability of students to manage their study and a missing appropriate didactic model. In this paper we compare the dropout rates of...

New Didactical Models in Open and Online Learning based on Social Media

In this paper we present a new didactical model for open online learning using social media. Ideas underlying this model are discussed in recent literature. The innovative part of the model is that students are connected and cooperate via a social network of study friends for example via Facebook or Twitter. They inform each other about to be...

Inquiry based learning as didactic model in distant learning

Recent years many universities are involved in development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Unfortunately an appropriate didactic model for cooperated network learning is lacking. In this paper we introduce inquiry based learning as didactic model. Students are assumed to ask themselves questions interacting with a learning text. The...

From e-Learning to m-learning: A MOOC case study

Technically e-learning material can be downloaded from a PC environment to a mobile phone environment. But the context, environment, physical limitations of a mobile phone, sets limits to a mobile learning environment. The didactic model cannot be transferred usually from e-learning to mobile learning environment. In an experiment we test the...

Sustainable urban water management in Prague, Czech Republic: Findings from an interdisciplinary academic consultancy training course in Urban Environmental Management

This paper presents the findings of a multi-disciplinary MSc Academic Consultancy project (Urban Environmental Management, Wageningen UR) on urban water management (UWM) in Prague, executed by 30 students in May and June 2010. The aim of the project was to provide the client Arnika (an Environmental NGO) scientific evidence and international...