learning designs supporting true networked learning environments

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learning designs supporting true networked
learning environments

• Ron Oliver, Edith Cowan University
• Blackboard's Asia Pacific Users Conference,
• Melbourne, November 2003

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the presentation

• effective learning
• opportunities from e-learning
• learning designs
• delivery tools
• facilitation
• networked learning
• global and cross-border e-learning
• planning ahead

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the process of learning
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what does a strong learning environment look
like?

• provides authentic contexts for learning
• includes integrated assessments
• supports collaboration
• provide multiple contexts
• models expert performance
• supports reflection
• promotes articulation

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opportunities from e-learning

• curriculum transformation
• student-centred learning
• learner self-regulation
• enhanced learning outcomes
• new markets for learning
• global learning
• cross-border learning

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the realities

• limited learning outcomes
• factory models
• high costs
• dissatisfied learners
• conventional approaches
• missed opportunities

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constituent elements of e-learning

• appropriate learning designs
• tasks as contexts for learning
• appropriate resources
• forms of learning support
• delivery tools and infrastructure
• courseware delivery and management tools
• communications capabilities
• seamless technology
• appropriate facilitation
• trained facilitators
• supports for community development

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learning designs

• the planned forms of learner engagement
• discrete forms
• problem-based
• catering for individual needs
• providing flexibility
• the basis of the instructional design process
• a large amount of e-learning planning involved no
  learning design planning

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learning designs

• rule focus
• applying learned processes and rules
• incident focus
• learner argues a course of action using a
  critical incident or scenario
• strategy focus
• application of problem solving strategy with
  multiple options to achieve the outcome
• role focus
• learning is achieved through learners
  participation as a player and participant in a
  setting that models a real world application.

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delivery tools

• courseware management systems
• communication tools
• groupware
• administration systems
• seamless, accessible, reliable, functional

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blackboard
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facilitation

• motivating and encouraging learners
• promoting inquiry
• providing guidance and scaffolds
• moderating interactions
• supporting community development

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sense of community
presage process product
system context
student
purpose communication guidance
facilitation
satisfaction higher-order thinking sense of
community
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supporting networked learning
student a
student h
student b
mentor
learning setting
student c
student g
expert
colleague
student d
student f
student e
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supports for networked learning

• technology capability
• learning context
• community development
• sustenance for the learning community
• where is the most pressing need?

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the untapped potential of e-learning

• global e-learning
• international
• cross-cultural
• cross-border
• inter-institutional
• cross-sector
• inter-agency

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strategies for success

• institutional expertise
• informed learning designs
• expert facilitations
• successful delivery systems

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