A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Development of an Online Learning Platform for University Pedagogical Studies-Case Study
Authors: Samuli Laato, Heidi Salmento, Mari Murtonen
Editors: Bruce M. McLaren, Rob Reilly, Susan Zvacek, James Uhomoibhi
Conference name: International Conference on Computer Supported Education
Publisher: SciTePress
Publication year: 2018
Book title : Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU
Journal name in source: CSEDU 2018 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education
Volume: 2
First page : 481
Last page: 488
ISBN: 978-989-758-291-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0006700804810488
Web address : http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0006700804810488
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/32138102
Due to a high demand of university pedagogical staff development courses in our university, we were faced with the problem of not being able to offer university pedagogy courses for everyone who wanted to study them. Additionally, we wanted to seek ways to improve our already existing teaching. As a solution, we created a web based learning platform called UTUPS (University pedagogical support). The platform allows us to reach a wider audience and offer courses more conveniently to our teaching staff. Since the platform was released in Autumn 2015, offered modules have been completed cumulatively over 300 times. We propose a learning environment like UTUPS can significantly increase the flexibility and scale of studies that a university
can offer. We will provide a thorough explanation on why and how the
environment was made, a technical description of the current UTUPS platform, compared it to already existing solutions and analyse its strengths and weaknesses. In order to evaluate the platform,
we will utilize primarily student feedback and refer to literature and
existing solutions when relevant.
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