مدیریت زمان در سیستم عامل های یادگیری آنلاین . مطالعه موردی با توجه به پلت فرم BSCW که بوسیله دانشجوی آموزگاری آینده مورد استفاده قرار می گیرد

The management of an online learning platform includes coordination of the activities conducted by students under the direct supervision of the teacher. Along with users accounts management activities, organization of virtual work space on the platform, loading of current media and learning tasks, one of the most important activities of the tutor is time management. This paper presents the results of a research on the concrete ways in which a trainer manages the time for online activities developed on BSCW platform. The study is anchored on an experimental research of the future teacher students’ work on the platform and is focused on how students and teacher make use of time management facilities provided by the BSCW platform.

The management of an online learning platform includes coordination of the activities conducted by students under the direct supervision of the teacher. Along with users’ accounts management activities, organization of virtual work space on the platform, loading of current media and learning tasks, one of the most important activities of the tutor is time management. For the present study we used the on-line platform BSCW (Be Smart – Cooperate Worldwide, OrbiTeam and Fraunhofer FIT) (fig. 1), which is an electronic collaborative learning environment. This workspace takes the characteristics of a classroom learning environment, but using the Internet, reconstructs this environment in cyberspace and offer possibilities for cooperation, communication, information storage and creation of new learning products. The calendar represents a BSCW facility that proves very useful for the management of the individual and group activities. The tutor can construct a timetable for the teaching activities to be delivered during the whole semester, with their data, deadlines for the tasks that will be available for all the users. The user can structure own personal calendar that may include personal notes. In the note typing window that becomes available by clicking the corresponding calendar data there exist the possibility of sending a notification message for the users regarding the event that will take place at that date. Thus, the calendar becomes an organizer of the group activities. The icon represents a shortcut to this facility.

The study emphasizes the importance of time management on an on-line learning platform both in terms of teacher and students. We illustrated graphically and analyzed the hours and days when the platform was highly accessed and we correlated the time spent studying course supports with subsequent academic performance. The time management is essential in the development of a didactic activity, the time being a limited resource. The BSCW platform offers multiple facilities for time management, thus being a real educational platform. Including numerous options for communication, cooperation and learning space organization, the BSCW platform is a real virtual classroom which allowed the teachers involved the training of own learning and cooperation relations management and of the capacity for transferring the learning principles illustrated and exercised in designing effective learning situations for students.