GOOGLE CLASSROOM - THE NEW EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE. PILOT TEST WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING.
GOOGLE CLASSROOM - THE NEW EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE. PILOT TEST WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING.

Summary/Abstract: The landscape of the educational area has witnessed a continuous transformation in the past years due to new technologies. Higher educational institutes from all over the world are competing in all kinds of learning experience with the main objective of finding the best practices for their students. The main purpose of all this experiences is to enrich learning through a new generation of pedagogical methods. One of the highest demands for Romanian educational system is the transition between the traditional classroom, which is limited at one teacher and his students in one room, at the same time, with limited learning resources, to an open learning process in which teachers and students are equal contributors and in which learning resources are always shaping. This paper interests are centered on emerging educational technology through effective learning experiences in a cloud computing environment. Our main interest is to present a new way of doing things on campus by using Google Classroom (first pilot test within University of Bucharest) at the Department for Distance Learning. Over the years the Department for Distance Learning (acronym CREDIS) had students of different ages, from 18+ to 50+, students from all over the country and abroad and all with the same purpose: to learn. By working with different people, with different ways of learning and also different attitudes, opinions, ideas, needs and stock of knowledge, our mission was and still is, to provide opportunities to learn for everyone; to customize learning. And what better way of doing it, if not by implementing the latest trends in teaching? To achieve this mission our team started to use Google Classroom, which is a great distance assessment tool that allows crowd participation and peer support. It is also promoting self assessment and reflection; it offers great help in managing class resources and a good guideline for e-feedback. It allows students and teachers to work quickly from anywhere and it uses the same web based tools that students and teachers among are using it at home. The challenges for the Department for Distance Learning team that came with the launch of this new project test are multiple but there are also a lot of opportunities created for teaching and learning as it will be presented in the paper.

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