Presenter: Igor Balaban

Title: FOI online

Duration: 15-20 min.

Abstract: The presentation covers the activities that Faculty of Organisation and Informatics (FOI) undertook to transform its learning and teaching into online activities. FOI Online Portal was developed as a proxy between FOI and its teachers and students and as a central place for providing support to online learning and teaching activities. Also, an online institutional survey system was developed and administered to students to assess the quality of online teaching of all courses at FOI. The summary of results is available to all teachers and students, while detailed results about every course is available to course teachers only. Such quality feedback is used to improve courses and to re-think about their design in the next semester. Also, several international projects were submitted to bridge the gap between onsite and online teaching and learning.

Biography: Igor Balaban is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Varaždin, a Vice-dean for science, international cooperation and projects, and a Head of Laboratory for advanced technologies in e-learning. He was actively involved in a dozen of European and national projects, authored and co-authored 50+ scientific and professional papers and cooperates with European Commissions’ Joint Research Centre as an external expert for DigCompOrg & DigCompEdu frameworks and SELFIE tool. His main field of interest is technology supported learning with special focus on adaptivity and personalization in learning environments and digital transformation of educational organizations.

Contact:
Assoc. Prof. Igor Balaban, Ph.D.
Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Varaždin, Croatia
phone: +385 42 390832
email: ibalaban@foi.unizg.hr