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The following chapter reports findings of the European eCompetence initiative. It conceptualizes effective practices in the use of educational technologies at universities as phenomena, which are determined by three dimensions: actors in education, educational products or processes, and educational technologies. Based on the description and comparison of 33 effective practices, it defines 3 different types of competences: organizational, pedagogical, and technical. All of these three competences can come on different stages or levels, which helps to understand existing differences between universities and their need as institutions to continuously improve their organizational, pedagogical, and technical capacities.
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European eCompetence Initiative. http://www.ecompetence.info/.
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EDUCAUSE Resource Center. http://www.educause.edu/resources.
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European Computer Driving Licence. http://www.ecdl.com/.
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It has to be noted that this shift and its huge implications were underestimated even by some big technology companies. Microsoft, which held a quasi-monopoly for desktop software and based its business model on selling software, increasingly feels challenged by Google, a search engine (funded by advertisements), which incresingly offers free software as a supplement to its search engine, or by open source projects, like Firefox (browser), Linux (operating system), and open office (desktop software). One can claim that in technical terms the 1990s were Microsoft’s decade, while Google became the main representative of the network paradigm in the first decade of the new century.
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Admittedly, the foundation of these support units also has to be attributed to an increased importance of teaching in general, which partly was caused by the enhanced autonomy and accountability of Austrian Universities since the end of the 1990s. Still, it is remarkable that many of these new units or positions explicitly focus on eLearning.
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Pfeffer, T. (2012). Competences for the Effective Use of Educational Technologies at Universities. In: Virtualization of Universities. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2065-1_8
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