What Is the Role of Technology in Pedagogy

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What Is the Role of Technology in Pedagogy

• Graham Glynn Ph.D.
• Director of Information Technology Learning
  Resources
• Creighton School of Pharmacy Allied Health
  Professions

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Introduction

• How technology should and should not be used
• What we should be striving to achieve with the
  use of technology
• What does technology help us do well

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• Information Sharing

Communication
Simulation

• Evaluation

Asynchronous Synchronous
Asynchronous Synchronous
Asynchronous Synchronous
Asynchronous Synchronous
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What Technology Should Not Do!

• Technology should support pedagogy - not take it
  hostage
• Many of todays learning management systems are
• Focused on content delivery and not educational
  techniques
• So inflexible (black box) that pedagogical
  innovation is impossible
• The technology should not be the focus of the
  course
• Content structure and organization should be the
  primary focus
• The bells and whistles phenomenon

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What We Should Strive for When We Use Technology

• Empower the student
• In an online course the only difference in
  capability between the students and the faculty
  staff should be access control
• Decrease the apparent student to faculty ratio
• Socratic method is only truly effective for small
  groups

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How Can Technology Support and Improve Education

• Automation
• Program once - repeat many times
• Deliver on demand
• Customization
• Deliver user specific information
• Portals
• Allow the user to design his/her personalized
  learning environment
• Allow the user to structure his/her own learning
  materials

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Automation Customization Impact on
Asynchronous Communication

• E-mail
• Threaded discussions
• Automated distribution and archiving
• Embedded voice and video messages
• Social implications
• Time to think and formulate
• Quality of asynchronous communication usually
  high
• Reduce inhibitions
• Volume of asynchronous communication usually high
• File sharing

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A C Impact on Synchronous Communication

• Chat
• IM
• Automatically informs you when a user is on line
• Customized buddy list for each course
• Submitting questions electronically in class

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A C Impact on Synchronous Communication

• Whiteboard
• Voice and video conferencing
• Computer based learning games
• Wheel of fortune
• Jeopardy

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A C Impact on Synchronous Collaboration

• Application sharing
• Remote control for demonstrations

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A C Impact on Information Sharing

• Asynchronous
• Address isolationism
• Metadata
• Sharing rating information and time spent on pages

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A C Impact on Information Sharing

• Proactively promote interaction between students
  and faculty by supplying contact info at the
  appropriate time

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A C Impact on Evaluation

• Synchronous
• Search
• PowerPoint note taking
• Access to foundation and support material
• In class evaluation tools

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A C Impact on Evaluation

• Asynchronous
• Question mark web based testing and survey tool
• Dynamically built exams
• Adaptive testing
• Incorporate multimedia

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A C Impact on Evaluation

• Instant grading

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A C Impact on Evaluation

• Immediate feedback

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A C Impact on Simulation

• Provide a model of a real experience on demand
• Not as expensive as the real thing
• May eliminate the need for animal experiments
• Repeat as often as necessary with varied
  parameters

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Summary

• Technology has a very valuable role to play in
  education as long as it
• Is used appropriately
• Supports the pedagogy
• Does not detract or distract from the content