Field Report on Five Years of eLearning-Observations and Inspirations

Due to the limitations of staff, especially at small universities, eLearning is a perfect addition to traditional courses. Nonetheless, the development and maintenance of online courses is not trivial. The usage of these courses can also be quite challenging for students, who are generally familiar with traditional lectures. In this paper, we are contributing our experience in creating and maintaining online courses. We will also describe different types of blended and pure online courses used in our department. Some of the observations made during this evaluation do not only apply for online courses, but are also true for traditional courses. Finally several interesting features to improve eLearning are presented.

, 2010