The Educational - Driven Approach for Technology Enhanced Learning

A technology - driven approach within personalized technology-enhanced learning for the teaching of bachelors was presented in previous contributions to WCECS. The focus was on the building of a supportive infrastructure, the developing of the in-house application BIKE (2010) and on the creation of a set of informatics tools for active learning (2011). In this paper, further progress is presented, where the focus is more on the education - driven approach regarding automation of teaching. When programming technology by the teacher, participatory action research showed that, any excellent technology or knowledge base, would basically be "dead" if the teaching content was not transferable into the classroom. To revive the flow of knowledge the examination of teaching for sequences of steps is required together with content unification and the use of specific communication channels for each of the courses of study. If this all works together, then the teacher can select and mix the content of teaching, informatics tools, communication and didactic elements according to the actual requirements of the teaching process. In our case, this resulted inter alia, in the creation of two innovative teaching methods when teaching "how a writing semester works". This radically helped to eliminate a "plagiarism culture" which beginning bachelor students are not aware of. It seems that after some years, an effective didactic methodology was found for this purpose. Further, technological aspects from the practice of TEL are described with the intention to demonstrate examples of how the teaching outputs are made by the "all-in-one" BIKE (which can cover all main topics of the conference). It is also explains the basic principle of how innovative teaching methods can be designed for bachelors from a teacher's point of view when understanding TEL as automation of teaching and learning.