Eleaming in practice — Case of Comenius University

About a decade ago, when online learning was introduced to most public universities in Slovakia, focus was heavily on technology, rather then methodology. Up to this day, many public universities provide their teachers and students with access to a Learning Management System, occasionally some technical training, but that is where the efforts ended. About three years ago, Comenius University started to offer methodological support and training to their teachers. The goal was to improve use of Learning Management System in a way that adds interactivity and interesting elements to the courses increasing quality of teaching. Since 2012, at Comenius University, we attempted to add methodological training and support to our teachers. In the Fall of 2015 we conducted a small internal survey consisting of over 20 in-depth interviews with teachers and administrators in an effort to see what elearning initiatives are in progress and how to improve our efforts in providing balanced technical and methodological support. Purpose of this article is threefold: 1. to briefly describe training and support provided 2. to showcase interesting and innovative teaching initiatives taking place at the University and 3. to identify the steps to be undertaken in order to improve the extent and the quality of elearning at our University. These steps might be useful in other places where the elearning is in a similar stage of development.