Tuesday, October 6, 2009

A CMS example at METU

The students and the instructors of Middle East Technical University(METU), use a CMS called "METU-ONLINE" (http://online.metu.edu.tr). This CMS is similar to Blackboard at University of Twente. The students automatically register to the system at the beginning of the semester. And later, they sign to the enviroment by using their university "User Name" and "Passwords". With the CMS, an instructor can upload the course-related files, announce the students grades, make announcements and post topics to be disscussed using Forum component. The students are able to reach the course files, post to the topic opened by the instructor, learn their grades online and chat with the peers.

METU-ONLINE can be used in Collaborative Learning and Task-Based Learning. For example, the instructors at the university can post topics under "Forum" part and let the students share each other's ideas or they can work collaboratively for the same assignment under Forum part. In addition, the students are able to Chat on the CMS. Or an instructor can use METU-ONLINE as a support the instruction. Therefore, it can be used in a Task-Oriented Learning like our course.

If you want to see my thesis' results about the effectiveness of METU-ONLINE in a course at the Political Sciences, you can contact with me :-)
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5 comments:

  1. Petra FisserOctober 6, 2009 at 11:23 PM

    Very interesting.. Why do you say that METU-ONLINE can be used in Collaborative Learning and Task-Based Learning? Are other approaches excluded?
    Petra

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  2. NielsOctober 8, 2009 at 12:15 PM

    Hey Nurcan,
    Your offer to see your thesis' results sounds interesting.
    I just send you an e-mail with my request ;-).

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  3. Nurcan DurmazOctober 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM

    Yep Niels,

    Why not:-), But I changed my idea, maybe it would be better to announce the results here.
    It will be my next post here;-)

    Thanks for interest..

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  4. Nurcan DurmazOctober 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM

    Dear Instructor,

    In my post, I tried to give examples of pedagogical approaches that can be used in METU-ONLINE. Collaborative Learning and Task Based Learning were the first examples I tought of at the time. Otherwise, the CMS can be used in other pedagogical approaches as well such as Problem-Based Learning :-)

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