Introduction To Elearning 2008 1205491916934560 3

Guide to elearning

Christine Smith and Mark ChildsLearning Development Centre

University of Warwick

Resource-based learning

Web supported learning

1. ‘Learning Resources’

2. Communication (CMC)

3. Assessment (CAA)

Resources CAA

CMC

The whole is greater…

VLEs Virtual Learning Environments

Content:(Sitebuilder)Word Web pagesVideo

Conferencing(Forums)

Assessment(Perception)

Learning resources on the web

Other peoples resources You/Students Finding them, Quality, IPR

Your own resources

Publishing – SiteBuilder Designing for the web

Resources online pros / cons

+ Easily altered+ from

anywhere

+ Hypertext

+ Integrate with + multimedia+ assessment+ discussion

+ Usage data

- Need access to internet

- Not very portable

- Best use requires restructuring

- Printing

Resource-based learning

Using websitesRepositoriesInteractive programsComputer aided assessmentGames

Websites

Assist with effective presentation of materials

(e.g. web pages, PowerPoint, papers)

Provide flexible access to structured, well-organised set of material

(e.g. source, remedial, PBL resources)Communicate to a variety of audiencesEstablish a (virtual) learning community

Information on websites

Course informationPre-course informationWeb-based materialsIntegrated discussion activitiesIntegrated co-operative workIntegrated collaborative work

1. Diagnostic

2. Formative

3. Summative

Community centred learning

Tools for communication Email Shared website Forums/discussion boards Peer-to-peer platforms Blogs and moblogs Instant messaging Chat Audioconferencing Videoconferencing and application sharing MUVEs Social Networking sites Mobiles and PDAs wikis

Which of the communication tools listed do you

think best suits your needs and why?

How might this alter the way you interact

with your students and alter the way they

learn and you teach?

Stages(Adapted from Gilly Salmon, 2000)

Access and motivation

Group socialization

Information exchange

Knowledge construction

Development

Setting up system and accessing

Sending and receiving messages

Building social bridges

Welcoming and encouraging

Searching, personalization features

Facilitating tasks and use oflearning materials

Conferencing Facilitating process

Supporting, responding

Providing links to external resources

e-Tutor

Technical support

Collaborative learning

Shared websitesBlogsForumswikis

E.g. “Performance Spaces”

Course websitereviewing websites and commenting

on reviewsanswering questions in blogs and

commenting on others’ blogsClassroom presentations using

Internet-based resources

Examples of blog use

Students answer questions using resources from gallery

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hesterbond/entry/the_eumenides/

Students look up webpages and comment on them

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/lmatthews/entry/sst1_stuffargh_work/

Blog examples ppt

Synchronous conferencing

Access to expertise

Link to distant studentsVideoconferencingChat e.g. MSNAudioconferencing e.g. SkypeImmersive virtual world

http://www.secondlife.com/

In combination

Can also combine different technologies, for example:

Streaming Theatre in a Virtual Classroom

Videoconferencing, website, forum, blog, video

E.g. “Streaming Theatre”

Modules run at Warwick and Amsterdam comparing theatre in both countries

Course website including video of performances

Arrange teaching sessions AW / W A Students upload ideas to joint website Students discuss these ideas in

videoconferences Students create pictorial essays using

video clips

The ‘telematic environment’

e-Learning Support

LDC: Pedagogy Consultancy / Workshops e-Learning award

Funding

Library: Resources Subject Support Resource based learning Teaching Grid

e-Strategy

elab: Tools Central tools and

technical development Development service e-Learning advisors

Other support

ElabRobert O’Toole - Arts and HumanitiesChris Coe – Social StudiesSteve Brydges – Medical SchoolSteve Carpenter – Sciences

Teaching GridRachel Davis

Funding for elearning

InternalTQEFEducation Innovation Fund

ExternalJISCHE AcademyEduserv

Contact

WELA / asynchronous technologies Christine Smith

c.m.smith@warwick.ac.uk Manus Conaghan

m.conaghan@warwick.ac.uk

Synchronous technologies Mark Childs

m.childs@warwick.ac.uk