Collaborative Design of Teaching Scenarios

A practical seminar on investigating tools and techniques for the design of successful online collaborative learning activities

The program METIS funded with support from the European Commission. This publication only of the author, and the Commission is not responsible for any use of the information contained therein.

http://metis-project.org/index.php/el/

Introduction to the METIS project& the objectives of the seminar

• What is the METIS project and where is it aiming ?• What does this tutorial offer?• The activities that will be carried out• Tools that will support our work• Our knowledge as trainers• Consent forms

Part O

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Introduction to Learning Design

"Learning Design is the act of devising new practices, plans of activity, resources and tools that aim at achieving particular educational goals in a given situation."(METIS project, 2012)

Introduction to Cooperative Learning

In contrast to individual learning, collaborative learning enables learners to benefit from each other sources and skills (exchanging information, evaluating their ideas, watching each other's work, etc.)

Presentation of the ILDE

-Conceptualise

-Author

-Implement

Integrated Learning Design Environment

http://ilde.upf.edu

Form Groups

Make groups of three to five people who have common interests in teaching (Instructors can suggest a method).

Choose the name of your team.

This will help us to collect the work of each group in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the seminar and to improve future seminars.

How to ruin a course?

1) Each one of you should write two or three ways that a course can be ruined-things that can make a class to fail.

2) Share your ideas with other team members.Create a list of the composition of your ideas for your group.

3) What are the key points?

Introduction to conceptualisation

Instructors will make an introduction to the conceptualisation.

Part 2

Determination of the course content and learning objectives

Instructors will guide you to a brainstorming. This activity will create ideas for the content of the course and learning objectives.

Characteristics of the learners

Instructors will make an introduction to the characteristics of the learners. They will present them separately into cognitive, psychosocial and demographic characteristics. Finally they will present the characteristics of ILDE.

Obstacles and Challenges

Taking into account the learning objectives and the characteristics of the learners:

1) Think: Think of three obstacles or challenges that could destroy collaborative learning and write them on post-its (5mins).

2) Pair: As a group, categorize the post-its using an A1 sheet. Take a photo of the sheet and upload the photo on ILDE (10 minutes).

3) Share: One person from each team will present to the class the list of obstacles & challenges that his/her team have created (10 minutes).

Part T

hree Writing the Course Content

Instructors will make an introduction in the writing of the course’s content.

Educational Strategies of Collaborative Learning

1) Each person learn about a particular pedagogical strategy of Collaborative Learning (each team member is studying a different strategy).

2) Each member of the team describes the strategy to the rest of the team – they conclude to a common view on the strategy.

3) Discuss each strategy separately in the class.

Development of a Course Map

As a group, use ILDE to create a Course Map about the collaborative teaching scenario that you will develop. You must complete the following fields: Course Title, Course / module summary, Key words, Guidance & support, Content & experience, Reflection & demonstration, Communication and collaboration

Presentation Course Map (1)

The representation of a course in Course Map enables you to form an opinion on this course with a "glimpse“ in four levels. It contains a brief summary of its activities.

Presentation Course Map (2)

Guidance & Support• How the pupils are supported?• Is there a guided learning path?• What are the supporting sources ?• What are the human resources?

Content & Experience• How do you deliver this course?• What type of activities do you use?

Reflection & demonstration• Course type (traditional or online)• Assessment Method?

Communication & collaboration• Methods of communication and collaboration between learners• Methods of communication and collaboration between teacher and learners

Course / Module summaryArea of Expertise, Class, Course, Unit, Duration

Keywords Determination of the content of the course

Creation of a Story Board

Activity

Learning outcome

Tool Resource

Learner's Work

Use the following post-its (JISC-OULDI), to create a storyboard of the collaborative teaching scenario that you will develop. Then take a photo of the poster and upload it on ILDE.

Writing Teaching collaboration scripts using I.C.T

Instructors will make an introduction about writing the content of the course using the Web Collage tool which is integrated in ILDE.

Part 4

Writing with theWeb Collage tool

Use the Web Collage tool from ILDE to start writing your lesson.

Demonstration of the implementation with the Moodle virtual learning environment

The instructors will present the automated application of the learning designs from the Web Collage to Moodle using Glue! –PS.

Discuss about the implementation of the teaching scenarios in class

Instructors and students will discuss how the learning designs which have been developed can be used in the classroom.

They will present the homework. (The completion of the homework is required for the certification of the seminar).

Seminar overview

Review of the seminar.

Assessment Questionnaire

We want to know your opinion about the seminar and the material presented (eg ILDE, the activities that you have developed, etc.) - in this way we can improve future seminars in order to make them easier to be applied in daily practice.

Please fill in the questionnaire of the seminar. You will not need more than 20 minutes.

Thank you for your participation!

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