Winter School 2006

e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences

These are the archived pages of the Winter School 2006, for new information please visit the homepage of the Winter School 2008.

The DAAD Winter School entitled "e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences" will be held in Berlin, at the Freie Universität Berlin, in January 2006. The Winter School will start on Saturday, January 7 (day of arrival) and end on Saturday, January 21 (day of departure). The central topics in the lectures and main goals of the workshops of the Winter School will include:

• introduction of skills and techniques to develop e-learning materials,
• presentation of e-learning projects of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin,
• conceptual development and realization of web-based e-learning projects, using the WWW as a medium to create international networks,
• providing the basis for future international networking and exchange of e-learning modules (including materials and techniques),
• structure and development of e-learning activities at the Freie Universität Berlin,
• latest developments in Environmental and Geoscientific Research with a focus on the main research of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin

The concept of the Winter School "e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences" consists of a mix of plenary sessions and project-oriented groupwork. In the plenary sessions, generally held in the mornings, experts will give talks on various aspects of e-learning, followed by discussions. The afternoons are reserved for tutor-supported computer sessions. The results of the Winter School – in the form of e learning projects designed and created by four or five small groups (see programme below) - will later be made available on the Internet to enable participants to use and develop them further.

The structure of the Winter School will enable participants to acquire both the theoretical fundamentals for creating e-learning materials (didactic, legal and technical aspects) and the necessary practical skills applied to projects designed by the alumni and alumnae themselves. The know-how required to develop e-learning materials, ranging from concept design to technical implementation, will be taught and trained in small groups and in individual computer sessions. Each group can call on the advice and support of a tutor (a student or faculty member) of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Please click on the following link to download the programme. Please note that you need the Acrobat Reader to open the document.

• Programme (english)