Online brick laying Active elearning seminar 'Talking about Teaching'

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Online brick layingActive e-learning seminar -
'Talking about Teaching'

• Prof Gilly Salmon

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The Plan

• Introductions to each other
• Key questions and challenges
• About the bricksthe labourer speaks some
  observations from the building site
• Discussions
• Introduction to 5 stage model e-tivities
• Examples and illustrations 1
• Discussions
• Examples Illustrations 2
• Discussions
• Examples illustrations 3
• Discussions

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plan design
Technology
Pedagogy
Facilitating teaching roles
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The bricks we work with
learning
knowledge
technology
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Behaviourism
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Cognitivism

• Information processing model
• Emphasizes the making of meaning
• Learning as a series of inputs, coded
• or symbolised for long term recall

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Constructivism

• Cognitive oriented constructivist theories
  emphasize exploration discovery by the learner.
  
• Socially oriented theories constructivist stress
  collaboratory efforts of groups of learners (and
  teachers/moderators ) as sources of learning,.

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Constructed knowledge

• Learners create knowledge as they attempt to
  understand their experiences
• Knowledge is therefore messy, individual, and
  complex.

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e-Learning strategy
Present
Mission / Market
New
Present
New
Pedagogy/ Technology
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e-Learning strategy
Present
VLE Digital Libraries
Broadcast Wikis blogs Mobile etc
Mission / Market
VLE Digital Libraries
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New
Present
New
Technology/ Pedaogy
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Does it do what it says on the tin?
autonomy
Learnability of tech
purpose
cost
success
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Ask not what technology can do for you, but what
you can do with it

• The quality of the learning experience depends on
  the suitability and appropriateness of the
  technology for the purpose
• Understand the purpose, avoid disappointing
  expectations
• Different technologies offer quite different
  purposes and affordances
• Most technologies offer a range of options and
  depend on skilled human intervention to work
  successfully

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Paws for chat
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Learning and teaching online

• Prior design for online participation
• Human intervention for successful learning

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Access motivation
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Online Socialisation
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Information exchange
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Knowledge construction
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Development
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Development
Integration External links search
Mentor Enabler
Knowledge construction
Facilitator
Conferencing Contact Interaction
Information exchange
Navigation Personalisation Time saving
Task setter Teacher Tutor
Online Socialisation
Receiving sending
Host Process establisher
Access motivation
Passwords Getting on
Welcomer supporter
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Introducing E-tivities
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E-tivities

• Participative group work online
• Motivating,engaging purposeful
• Based on interaction between learners/students
  active student contribution
• Designed led by an e-moderator
• Usually asynchronous (i.e over time)
• Cheap easy to run- usually simple text based
  bulletin boards
• On or off campus, blended or online only

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invitation spark individual responses
interaction tutor summary
days
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
time line
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spark
invitation
participation
navigation
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Paws for chat
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How structure helps

• Understanding of process
• Guide to developing activities
• My focus on designing for supporting e-moderation
  of groups

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E-moderator involvement changes

• Socialisation
• HIGHER level of activity on basic tasks
• Knowledge Building
• LOWER level of activity on complex tasks

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Arrivals
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Benefits of learning in groups online
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Socialisation
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E-moderator actions

• Communicate with every student
• Respond to questions about VLE
• Chase up latecomers
• Introduce the course
• Help latecomers catch up
• Keep faster students motivated
• Encourage interactions between students
• Sleep

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Knowledge building
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E-moderator actions

• Feedback
• Challenge
• Different perspectives
• Relating to course objectives
• Being there (but not involved)
• Scanning
• Supporting

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Paws for chat
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REflections Developing Teaching Practice
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Virtual Lego Stranded in the desert
Jane Wellens, UoL, (2002)
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Teaching learning online
E-mod - supporting, responding Tech - providing
links outside closed conferences
1 Applying what we know works face-to-face
3 Sharing what works in own discipline
5 Applying the framework in own discipline

• Applying what we know works face-to-face
• Sharing what works in own discipline
• Applying the framework in own discipline

E-mod - facilitating process Tech - conferencing
E-mod - facilitate tasks support use of learning
materials Tech - searching, personalizing
E-mod - familiarization building bridges
(cultural, social learning environment) Tech -
sending receiving messages
E-moderating - welcome encourage Technical -
Setting up accessing
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E-Reflections course
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E-Reflections course
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Paws for chat
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More bricks
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Creative Waves in Omnium
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spark
invitation
participation
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Paws for chat
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www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance
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Thanks for taking part Build with those bricks!
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You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only
one John Lennon