“E-learning: Opportunities for Effective Communication” Workshop for Journalism Tutors

• LMS (Learning Management System) – a website template where you can conduct an educational process (examples are moodle, canvas);
• Types of training (joint brainstorming)
• Synchronous training (webinar, guest speaker, online requests, etc.)
• Asynchronous learning (everything that is for the student’s independent study)
• Interactive training (tests, boards, surveys, etc.)
• It is important: that every teacher finds a comfortable combination of technology and content;
• We need to go from need to technology, technology should make life easier, not complicate, this is important;
• Directing is more difficult than simply giving knowledge;
• Translate the differences of online education into advantages, rebuild the lesson, revise the formats;
• At the beginning of the lesson – it is important to do online warm-ups in order to relieve tension, at the end of the lesson it is important to fix the training – using the method of polling what was remembered, what was learned, during the lessons, use group discussions more;
• The more difficult the task, the more interesting it is for the students to complete it.
• Build the structure of the lesson according to Bloom’s taxonomy (during the sessions, create conditions for the student so that they learn to analyze, do, design, and gain knowledge in the process)
• At first, when we went online, we went through this period, and now we can already feel the atmosphere that more is expected from online education …
• It is important (for teachers) to gather and voice ideas, experiences, experiences regarding the organization of the online learning process, share experiences, so more and better awareness comes …

The main approach to education: this is learning from each other, when the goal of learning is the simultaneous development of everyone, and not the transfer of knowledge from teacher to student, and it is important not to miss this in the online learning format;
Zoom Rooms – Helps organize group discussions, but usually requires multiple tutors to oversee the discussions.
Online boards, for example, padlet boards – replace stickers offline, does not require registration;
Kahoot platform as a game assessment method;
Duration of online sessions – 1 hour 30 minutes;
Assessment
usually distributed like this:
20% visit
40% homework
20% active participation

Basically, based on specific assignments, assignments are checked by two tutors, if the grades are different, then they come to the same opinion;
Activity: it is necessary to observe the students, maintain “profiles”, those who are silent or do not express themselves – can show themselves in an individual conversation;
It is better to divide lectures into logical points;
There are pros and cons of video recording –
1) students can watch at any time;
2) the student cannot satisfy his answer in time;
Psychological assistance: teachers can only record the state of the student, but not provide assistance, for this there is a student department inside the university, which assigns psychological support, financial support.

The college has introduced an online learning system, where the teacher can organize the whole process, except for the electronic system, meetings are held in Microsoft TEAM;

The teacher prepares materials for study in advance for the whole semester and places them in the system, and this is very convenient;

Distribute themes for research/presentations in advance;

So, online meetings are intended only for discussions with the teacher, in which the presentation of students takes most of the time;

In order to hand over homework, no physical presence is required, just attach the file to the e-learning system;

The professor can comment on those points with which he does not agree, give his recommendations, put down an assessment;

Now new systems for online activation are being invented – for example, graduation ceremonies are planned to be held (and are already being held somewhere) using VR technologies, where a graduate can virtually climb the podium

When preparing presentations, as homework, we record our voice audio and attach it to the presentation. So the teacher can hear the scoring and interpretation of the slides that the student is preparing.