Learning Solutions Newsletter Q1 2021
LEARNING & COMMUNITY CORNER
Learning Solutions Onboarding NEW
For our new employees, we have come up with something special in the Learning Solutions.From now on, the Learning Solutions training will be conducted in a self-study format and can be flexibly scheduled by our new employees in terms of time and location during their onboarding phase.The training consists of four videos and provides an overview of the following topics:
Who are we?
What is our main focus?
MCI Digital Campus
Ongoing Learning Solutions projects
During the enrollment session, new employees are invited to watch four short videos (in German or English) and then take a short quiz to reinforce what they have just learned.
Click here to join the Sakai course of the Learning Solutions Onboarding. Just log in to Sakai and click on the Join button if you are interested in the format or just to learn more about Learning Solutions.
Tip for PPTX in Adobe Connect: Preserve fonts
If you prefer to work with Power Point slides in your MCI webinars via Adobe Connect and want to be sure that the formatting is preserved in Adobe Connect, here is a trick for you:
Open your Power Point
Go to the 'Options' in Power Point
And click on the 'Save' tab.
There you can activate the option 'Embed fonts in the file' - 'Embed all characters'.
And then save again.
INNOVATION & INITIATIVE
MCI Earth Day 2021
MCI Earth Day 2021 is an initiative organised by MCI students in collaboration with MCI PRME. The aim is to show how we can all contribute to a better future with small, everyday changes. Under the motto "We are all responsABLE" and in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there will be a social media campaign with a competition on Instagram and a speaker session with discussion panel on the evening of 22 April 2021.
Everyone can take part in MCI Earth Day 2021! The official language is English and all events are free and accessible online.
To find out more and stay up to date, visit the earthday_mci Instagram account atwww.instagram.com/earthday_mci
For more information and to register for the speaker session, visit the website:https://www.mci4me.at/mci-earth-day-2021
We would be delighted if you contribute to the competition and attend the MCI Earth Day speaker event. We would also like to invite you to make your students aware of the initiative.
Digital Soft Skills@UlyssEUs
We are looking forward to starting a new project within UlyssEUs: D2S@UlyssEUs, an Erasmus+ Action initiative funded by the European Commission. D2S@UlyssEUs has the following goals:
promote the digital pedagogical competences of faculty and thus the effective use of digital technologies in teaching in order to deliver high quality, inclusive digital education
equip all learners with digital transversal skills to succeed in a world increasingly mediated by digital technologies
develop an open badge ecosystem, the "UlyssEUS Digital Soft Skills Passport", for the recognition and validation of these skills.
The project will start in March 2021 and has 24 months to achieve these ambitious results.
The UlyssEUs partners are fully committed to the digital transformation and in particular to the transformation of digital education through the development of a European virtual campus.
DIDAKTICS & TEACHING
Tools for online collaboration
Group work in (online) teaching plays an important role. However, when we talk about online teaching, it is not always easy to find a suitable tool for efficient, interactive and productive group work.Here are some tools we could recommend for designing group work in your classes.
Please note that when using external tools (i.e. tools that are not developed, centrally supported or hosted by MCI), you have to consider how to handle students’ personal data if it is transmitted in any way to outside systems or tools. In some cases, it may be necessary to inform students, or even seek their consent.
MIRO
MURAL
Educator license is free (Apply as Educator).EDU license offers all PRO features.You will need to enter your institution and email when registering.Link to EDU license: LINK (Scroll down)
EDU license is free.EDU license offers all PRO features.You will need to enter your institution and email when registering.Link to EDU license: https://www.mural.co/education
Possible application scenarios:
Brainstorming
Virtual group work
Virtual warm-ups
Idea generation
Meeting management
Mind mapping
Planning Tool
Project Management
Tutorials:Get started with MIRO: LINKMIRO Academy: https://academy.miro.com/
Tutorials:Learning the basics of MURAL: LINKMural-Blog: https://www.mural.co/blog?topics=all-posts
If you have other questions re. opportunities you have to establish collaborative work in your class, we are always here for you!
Your Learning Solutions Team.
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