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Identifier

000419477

Title

Η σημασία της "διδακτικής παρουσίας" και ο νέος ρόλος του εκπαιδευτικού σε σύγχρονα μαθησιακά περιβάλλοντα με έμφαση στην παιδαγωγική αξιοποίηση της διαδραστικής τηλεδιάσκεψης

Alternative Title

The importance of teaching presence and the new teacher's role in learning environments focusing on pedagogical exploitation of interactive videoconference

Author

Καρβούνης, Λάμπρος

Thesis advisor

Αναστασιάδης, Παναγιώτης
Λιοναράκης Αντώνιος
Ανδρεαδάκης Νικόλαος

Reviewer

Καλογιαννάκη Πέλλα
Χατζηδάκη Άσπα
Καρράς Κωνσταντίνος
Κωστούλα Νέλλη

Abstract

The present research attempts to investigate the notion of teaching presence as this occurs in an interactive videoconference environment in accordance with the ODYSSEAS project methodological framework. In order to examine teaching presence in such learning environments, it is vital to study the role of the educator and to identify the necessary skills so that the teacher can teach both the local and the remote class. The teacher does not merely teach his own class, nor does he teach by himself. He or she teaches the local as well as the remote class and he does so in collaboration with the teacher of the remote class. This research is based on action research methodology and was applied to primary school teachers in Attica and Crete. It involved fifth and sixth grade pupils. The research was furthermore based on interactive videoconference methodology as it is applied in the methodological framework of the ODYSSEAS project as well as on the Blended Learning model. In his double role as teacher and headmaster at a primary school in Crete, the researcher was actively involved in the process of interactive videoconferencing. As far as the application is concerned, in the framework of the ODYSSEAS project methodology four interactive videoconferencing programs were carried out, each of them involving four videoconferences. These concerned specific environmental matters and fixed activities which were based on constructivism, collaborative teaching and learning and the Project method. Research findings point towards the emergence of a specific role and the development of specific skills for the teachers, in an educational context that is based on methodological approaches and on content with a strong teaching presence. The latter is based on advanced learning technologies and is composed of technical skills, media-functional skills, organizational skills, teaching skills, aesthetic – emotional skills, ethical skills, systemic skills as well as socio-critical skills that are essential for the 21st century teacher.

Language

Greek

Subject

Blended learning

Community of inquiry

Interactive videoconference

Odysseas project

Teacher's role

Teacher's skills

Teaching presence

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