Putting Elearning Into Practice

PUTTING ELEARNING INTO PRACTICE

Issues and Approaches

What is elearning? http://what-is-elearning.wikispaces.com/

Etraining Distance Education Blended or Web Enhanced Learning Type 1 Blended or Web Enhanced Learning Type 2 Virtual Classroom Type 1 (Collaborative) Virtual Classroom Type 2 (Presentational)

Next/Back Learning

Content for whole course prepared and loaded upfront (expensive)

Minimal input from instructors; essentially unfacilitated

Self-paced; individualised Suitable for compliance or product

training, or for highly motivated students

Facilitated Learning

Involves processing of content

PLUS Communication activities (discussion) with

fellow students and facilitator Strong social and/or collaborative

component

MOODLE, JANISON, orRENT A CROWD?

Where do you put your content?

“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)

Original photo by Hummanna.

eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0(Stephen Downes) eLearning 1.0 was static packaged content developed by content

developers such as CD-ROMs and courseware. It had little true interactivity and learner input and very little (if any) contact with a tutor.Best represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg WebCT) Some packaged content and some provided by the teacher. There is more interaction with a teacher and some with peers (through forums and chat).

eLearning 2.0 will follow a student-centred model and will be centred around the Personal Learning Environment using social software. Students generate and share content. They interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in the world they can learn from.

eLearning 2.0(Networked Learning)

Networked Learning

Line of increasing personal a

gency

Institutionally driven

Member driven

FormalInformalTop-down rules

for creation, operation and

governance

EmergentBottom-up norms, not rules

Enabling Culture

Culture of compliance

Line of increasing personal a

gency

Institutionally driven

Member driven

FormalInformalTop-down rules

for creation, operation and

governance

EmergentBottom-up norms, not rules

Enabling Culture

Culture of compliance

Mapping the cultural emphases of knowledge sharing practicesMapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools

From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an

eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005

Mapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools

From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an

eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005

Line of increasing personal a

gency

Institutionally driven

Member driven

FormalInformalTop-down rules

for creation, operation and

governance

EmergentBottom-up norms, not rules

Enabling Culture

Culture of compliance

Institutionally driven

Member driven

FormalInformalTop-down rules

for creation, operation and

governance

EmergentBottom - norms, not rules

Mapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools

Wikipedia

e-PortfoliosProfile tools

Blogs/Wikis

Flickr

IM (Skype)

Tagging Tools (del.icio.us,

List servers

Forums

Onlinejournals

FIREWALL

FIREWALL

FIREWALL

From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an

eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005

YouTubeFacebook

Podcasting

LMS

Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

Employability Skills

Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

Digital Storytelling: which skills? Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

Which skills? – all of them!

Executive Functions(Neuroscience) planning decision-making inhibition meta-cognition (thinking about learning) creativity problem solving

Employability Skills Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning

Technology

Executive Functions

problem solving decision-making,creativity planning inhibition meta-cognition (thinking

about learning)

Asynch

Synch

Oral Written

DialogicMinimalistic

Reflective; combination

of dialogic and monologic

Most structured form

ofcommunication

COMMUNICATION AXIS

Drivers

Employability Skills Skills Strategy Training Packages AQTFOR YOU??? YOUR STUDENTS’ NEEDS?

Challenges

Web 2.0Networked LearningParticipatory Media http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

Why Media?

Adrian Miles (RMIT):

“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”

Innate human desire/need to create Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables

creation of art, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc

Challenges

Web 2.0Networked LearningParticipatory MediaOpen Content

http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

Open Content

Challenges

Web 2.0Networked LearningParticipatory MediaOpen ContentCreative Commons Licensing

http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

Creative Commons Licensing

from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

Challenges

Web 2.0 Networked Learning Participatory Media Open Content Creative Commons Licensing

New Ways of Learning?

http://newlearning.wikispaces.com/

Keeping a Media Generation engaged

http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada)

Principles of Connectivism:

Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.

Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.

Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

Challenges

Keeping abreast of a field that changes daily Training IT students to manage the information

deluge Can institutional networks survive, and remain

relevant?

http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

What are others doing?

Photography (Croydon) - customised TAA (Protopage) Stonemasonry (NSW) Ning Cert IV/Diploma in Business/Bus Admin

(Seedwiki) Dental – podcasting Western Institute (TAFE NSW) - wiki Hospitality – Appetite for Success Property Services (Panorama) Centra

Property Services – Centra Recordings

Practical Resource

Peter Shanks (NSW) bluemountains.net

The Future

Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less         Virtual Worlds/Immersive Environments         Cloud-Based Applications

Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years         Geolocation         Alternative Input Devices

Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years         Deep Tagging         Next-Generation Mobile

From Australian/NZ Horizon Reporthttp://horizon.nmc.org/australia/