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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
[email protected] Manus Conaghan
Synchronous technologies Mark Childs
