E-Hoop SDDP Cyprus

E-Hoop SDDP Cyprus Report Title SDDP e-Hoop Project E-Hoop Triggering Question "What are typical obstacles that limit learners from benefiting maximally from their respective educational institutions of their differences?" Dates 8 February 2014 Author(s) Elena Aristodemou Aliki Economidou Chrystalla Miltiadou Editor(s) Yiannis Laouris Total Duration 12 person hrs Statistics Participants=12 Number of ideas=50 Number of Clusters=7 Ideas received Votes=23 Ideas on MAP R=6 Spreathink ST=40% Situational Complexity SCI=1,4% Download Download Report

Executive Summary

The Structured Dialogic Design co-laboratories are organized with aim to analyze the needs of the intended users with respect to their learning needs, as well as their needs with regards to the e-Hoop platform. The intention is to identify obstacles that prevent learners from benefiting maximally from their current educational institution due to differences (disabilities, socioeconomic background etc.), using the Structured Dialogic Design Process (SDDP).

University of Cyprus organized on the 8th of February 2014 a co-laboratory in order to accumulate the collective wisdom of experts regarding the obstacles that limit learners from benefiting maximally from their respective educational institutions because of their differences. The co-laboratory was attended by 12 participants.

The workshop was mainly facilitated by Yiannis Laouris and Katerina Fotiou (CNTI). Anna Pavlina Charalambous supported the analysis of the data and preparations of the final reports after the end of the workshop.

The Triggering Question (TQ) of the first workshop was:

"What are typical obstacles that limit learners from benefiting maximally from their respective educational institutions of their differences?"

In response to the TQ, the 12 participants came up with 50 ideas, which were categorized in 7 clusters. Following the voting process, 23 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.

Influence tree from the ideas generated at e-Hoop Cyprus SDDP workshop for TQ.

According to the participants of this workshop, the ideas that appear to be the most influential were:

• Idea #27: Ο μεγάλος αριθμός μαθητών στις τάξεις (κάποιες φορές)
  
• Idea #18: Τρόπος διδασκαλίας
  
• Idea #26: Λανθασμένη και ελλειπής επιμόρφωση των εκπαιδευτικών
  
• Idea #46: Η υπερφόρτωση του γνωστικού φορτίου
  
• Idea #49: Έλλειψη εξατομικευμένης διδασκαλίας
  
• Idea #23: Αξιολόγηση μαθητών
  

The workshop was mainly facilitated by Yiannis Laouris and Katerina Fotiou (CNTI). In sum, the participants of the dialogue reported their satisfaction that they had the opportunity to exchange ideas via the structured dialogue process which empowered them to identify the obstacles that can be a barrier to students to benefit on the maximum from the educational institutions due to their differences.

Participants

Name
Anastasia Kkoufou
Anna Pavlina Charalambous
Antria Nikolaou
Christos Konstantinou
Despo Nikolaou
Despo Spyrou
Katerina Philippou
Maria Orfanou
Natasa Patsalidou
Stavria Aggeli
Stella Lambis
Vasilis Stylianou

External Links

http://www.e-hoop.info/