The First Experience With IBME at Masaryk University, Brno
The First Experience With IBME at Masaryk University, Brno

Author(s): Markéta Matulová, Maria Králová, Lukáš Másilko
Subject(s): Higher Education , Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Masaryk University; Brno; IBME; The Community of Inquiry at Masaryk University;
Summary/Abstract: This study provides an insight into the emerging community of inquiry at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. First, we present the historical and institutional background that determines the conditions in which our teaching team operates. We briefly summarise the possible ways of professional development intended for academics at our university (except for pedagogy students preparing for the future career of primary or secondary school teachers). We believe that the relatively low institutional support of academics in this field dramatically influences the limited professional knowledge of didactics and pedagogy among our team members. Furthermore, we describe our community, which is characterised by considerable fragmentation|both in terms of courses taught and belonging to individual faculties and university workplaces. The physical distance between the buildings where our teachers work is also one of the limiting factors for the functioning of our community. Due to this fragmentation, it is also difficult to characterise the functioning of the community as a whole. Individual sub-teams differ in their approach to designing and implementing IBME tasks in teaching, monitoring, and evaluation. Therefore, we present three different examples of approaches to IBME education, which in our opinion, demonstrate this diversity. Their analysis is presented in three separate sections.

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