ICT SOLUTIONS FOR IN-SERVICE
TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION
IN PUBLIC UTILITIES
GYTIS CIBULSKIS, HEAD OF E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
MAIN TRENDS OF ICT
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Ubiquitous access
Personalization
Openness
Massiveness
UBIQUITOUS ACCESS
2005
2013
PERSONALISATION
• Ownership of learning
• E-portfolios
• Personal learning environments
• Workplace learning
• Contextual recommendations
OPENNESS
■ Open source
■ Open content
■ Open access
OPENNESS
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER) definition officially introduced in 2002
by UNESCO
2002 MIT started
OpenCourseware
initiative
2005 established Open Courseware
(Open Education) Consortium
that unites 280 organizations
from 40 countries
MASSIVENESS
First Initiatives in Europe
• UK Open University OpenLearn >> FutureLearn
• European Association of Distance Teaching Universities EADTU initiative
OpenupEd.eu
Initiative by EU Commission
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/
MOOCs at KTU
2013 - 1st Lithuanian MOOC in English
• Course on Management
was selected and adopted
to MOOC format
• Special portal
open.ktu.lt based
on Moodle was created
• Course delivered in
Spring-Summer 2013
• Registered – 1500
• Studied – 600
• Graduated - 83
MOOCs at KTU
2014 – 1st MOOC in Lithuanian
Course „Information Technologies“ targeted to wide
audience is offered through open.ktu.lt
• Oct 31 – Dec 18
(6 weeks)
• 2007 registered
participants
• 647 actively
participates and
submitted
assignments
E-LEARNING IN LITHUANIA
LITHUANIAN DISTANCE EDUCATION NETWORK (LIEDM)
ICT USE IN UTILITY SERVICES
LITHUANIAN EXAMPLES OF IN-SERVICE TRAINING
Kauno vandenys (Kaunas Water company)
E-learning course for the training of staff in EU Water training
directive (http://distance.ktu.lt/kbridge)
Lietuvos dujos (Lithuanian Gas)
E-learning platform with various courses for staff in service training
and testing of knowledge when checking their qualification – virtual
learning environment was installed and integrated with intranet of the
institution, e-learning courses and knowledge assessment tests where
created.
OTHER USE OF ICT IN UTILITY
EXAMPLES
• Remote monitoring of infrastructure
• Automation of utility management
• Incident registration and repair progress status
updating with mobile devices
• Better information provision and communication with
utility service users
• Communication with partners and among staff
• One to one communication
• Group communication (video conferences)
GYTIS CIBULSKIS
E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
[email protected]