Electronic resources and services

to support academic process at AUCA

Battalova Sania

American University – Central Asia

Director of Information Resources and Technology

battalovas@mail.auca.kg

E-Services provided by IRThttp://irt.auca.kg/

• e-Course system (Moodle)

• e-Reserve system

(Moodle environment)

• E-Portfolio (Mahara)

• E-Library (DSpace)

• E-survey tool

(SurveyMonkey)

AUCA e-Course system: http://e-course.auca.kg/

AUCA e-Course system: http://e-course.auca.kg/

• Online Course Management System (based on Moodle Open Source Software), can be used to supplement traditional face-to-face classroom activity or to deliver a completely online course.

• Includes tools for managing student communication and grades,

sharing content, collaborating outside of class, administering quizzes and surveys, and communicating with email, forum or chat.

• Is being used as a tool to keep student majors or student groups informed and to collaborate with other professors in research projects.

• Is being used as an information and collaboration environment for the University working groups (administrative and/or academic)

AUCA e-Course system: course example

AUCA e-Course system: usage statisticshttp://irt.auca.kg/en/e-course_statistics/

# Title Courses InstructorsRegistered Students

Degree Programs

1 American Studies 7 7 86

2 Anthropology 12 5 97

3 Business Administration 6 4 80

4 European Studies 5 2 48

5 International & Business Law 7 2 80

6 International & Comparative Politics 6 5 89

7 Journalism & Mass Communications 8 4 135

8 Master of Business Administration 6 4 33

9 Psychology 14 6 304

10 Sociology 11 6 306

Supporting Programs

1 Arts & Recreational Sports 6 2 156

2 English Language 1 1 29

3 Mathematics & Natural Sciences 4 2 86

4 First Year Seminar 7 1 119

  Totals 100 51 1648

AUCA e-Course system: Student’s responds

• Very positive to work with the system

• Have no problems with the E-course technology

• Have an opportunity to work at home

• Have better opportunity to communicate with instructor

• Students prefer to take course in which teacher use the E-course system

AUCA e-Course system: faculty responds

• Do not need too much time to learn (regularly 2 training sessions and some consultations)

• Many features to organize the course• Possibility to use any file formats (video, audio,

video lessons as well)• Changing of teaching methodology (active

learning approach)• More possibilities for collaboration (faculty-

students, faculty-faculty)

AUCA e-Course system: how to start

• Follow the link http://e-course.auca.kg/ • Set up an account• Submit ‘Electronic Course Request Form’ (find the form at

the IRT web-site or the e-Course web-site)• Fill in a course by resources and activity (information

resources, assignments, forums, quizzes)• Enroll students in a course• Have all required support and consultation: Senior

Specialist for eLearning – Maya Sharsheeva, irt@mail.auca.kg, tel. (ext): 300

AUCA e-Reserve system: http://library.auca.kg/en/crs/

•eReserve is a part of the e-Course system• e-Reserve is an opportunity to provide an access to learning materials in the framework of your course for your students in electronic (digital) format. •E-Reserves extend the Course Reserves to those outside of the Library by providing a digital copy of the required reading•Library specialists will help you to place the materials at the system.

AUCA e-Reserve system: examples

AUCA e-Reserve system: examples

AUCA e-Reserve system: statistics

Course Name Number of courses

Instructors Registered students

American Studies 3 1 36

Business Administration 1 1 15

MBA 2 1 24

Mathematics and Natural Sciences 1 4 110

Total 7 7 185

AUCA e-Reserve system: how to start

• Go to the Library web-site – Electronic reserve section http://library.auca.kg/en/crs/

• Complete online or printed e-Reserve request form 

• Bring your materials to the Library

• Have all required support and consultation: by phone 66-10-88 (275 int.) or by e-mail library@mail.auca.kg

AUCA e-portfolio system:http://eportfolio.auca.kg/

• to present yourself effectively, properly, creatively, professionally, up-to-date

• to make the information visible

• to update your profile the information regularly

• to control and operate the ePortfolio content access

• to store and to show of the personal achievements

Showcase of the personal accomplishments

AUCA Personal professional information – the way to start

Start to create your ePortfolio:

http://eportfolio.auca.kg

How it may look like: area of your creativity

AUCA ePortfolio “Easy to make” template

• “Key points” of the academic career

• Basic Knowledge For the Beginners

• To make the process easier and faster

• Background for future development of the personal e-Portfolio – be creative!

AUCA e-Portfolio system: how to start

• Open web browser http://eportfolio.auca.kg

• Login with the username and password that you would normally use when you log on to AUCA's computer network.

• Complete the Account form with your details. Required items: proper First name and Surname, valid Email address.

• Press the button ‘Submit’

• Create your own e-Portfolio

• Have all required support and consultation: Senior Specialist for eLearning – Maya Sharsheeva, irt@mail.auca.kg, tel. (ext): 300 or Sania Battalova, (tel/ext. 273)

What news at the AUCA Library:http://library.auca.kg/

• Research databases (new databases access available)

• Electronic books collection (all subjects)

• AUCA Digital Library news

AUCA Digital Library http://elibrary.auca.kg:8080/dspace/

e-Survey tool (SurveyMonkey)http://www.surveymonkey.com/

• Survey Monkey is an easy-to-use tool for the creation of online surveys

• It has an intuitive Web interface, which makes it easy for even non-technical folks to create surveys and export collected data

• It has advanced features, like the ability to branch questions based on response and exporting to different formats, including HTML, CVS and SQL

An example: AUCA web-mail surveryhttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7JFZNWN

AUCA e-Survey tool

AUCA e-Survey tool: how to start

• Go to the IRT web-site: http://irt.auca.kg/ - Web-survey tool

• Complete a request form

• Get a login and password to access the system

• Have all required support and consultation: Maya Sharsheeva, irt@mail.auca.kg, tel. (ext): 300 Marat Kuldashev, marat@mail.auca.kg, tel(ext): 207Sania Battalova, battalovas@mail.auca.kg, tel(ext): 273