-learning opportunities
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-learning Opportunities. What is it? What’s out there ? How can we get into it? How do we sell it our trainers & students?. What is elearning ?. Variety of styles – Fully online or blended What it isn’t – sitting alone at a computer staring at a screen full of text - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
-learning OpportunitiesWhat is it? What’s out there? How can we get
into it? How do we sell it our trainers & students?
What is elearning?
• Variety of styles – Fully online or blended
• What it isn’t – sitting alone at a computer staring at a screen full of text
• What it can be – Blended with f2fo Suitable units or parts of units using
wikis\online classroom\online chat\skype etc
o Combined with some f2f classes
Using iPads\tablets\computers\mobile phones in the classroom for research etc
What’s out there?
• Free or cheap web 2.0 tools ego Wikiso Blogso Google Toolso Cloud Storage, (Dropbox, iCloud,
Box)o Online tools eg – screencasting,
voice tools, podcasts, video, eportfolios etc
o Facebooko Twittero iPad and tablet appso Mobile phone appso Online quizeso Electronic Bookso QR Codes
How can we get into elearning?
• Ementor projecto Online training sessions
o Free PD Day in each region
• Find just one keen trainer/manager/staff member & resource him/her to train – their enthusiasm will carry through to others
• Be prepared to do some exploring & attend online sessions or conferences in your own time. It will add value to you as a trainer or manager – looks good on CV!
• Join an online forum or media tool eg facebook or twitter – information will come to you. Follow the gurus
• Curation Tools – Scoopit or Zite (for iPad) Become the curator for your organisation
• Get into it or be left behind!
How to add “e” to the classroom
• Big Ticket itemso Learning/Content
Management Systems (LMS\CMS)
o Blackboard Training VC via eWorks
http://eworks.edu.au/
o Moodle – Open Source
https://moodle.org/
But we do it more simply…& a bit cheaper!
• Content management System – Private Label wikio $1000.00 p/a Unlimited users
for existing users, 100 for new users
o Free 30 day trialo Each class has its own wiki
Completely private Logins Unit resources uploaded
• Assessments, Unit Outlines
• Class powerpoints, handouts
• Discussion boardhttp://wikispaces.com
How does it actually work?
Trainers
• All trainers employed at Coonara must use some “e” in their classes – wikis at a minimum
• All trainers at Coonara are trained to use wikis
• Trainers who wish to – Online Classroom training – Current PD sessions at Coonara
• Currently have 5 trainers who run online classes regularly. More have expressed interest & are attending PD
• Some experimenting with mobile devices eg QR Codes, placement tasks
• Starting to train tutors for preaccred classes
Students
• Some classes advertised as “Blended”
• Some classes advertised as blended with some online classroom sessions
• Every new class has one or two sessions on wiki training at the start of each course (Accred)
• Online Classes have one F2F session online classroom training then one practise session from home
• All classes are f2f with some units of some classes in online classroom
• Combination of wikis for content management\Discussion Forum - Online Classroom for classes, assessment, webtours, webquests, small group discussions etc
Lets have a quick look at a class wiki
Diploma Tuesday Wiki
Cert3chntuespm Wiki
Class Wiki
Ensuring Online Conduct is appropriate
General Study Skills Info
Unit Information
Unit Resources
Discussion Forum
Online Classroom - Brainstorming
Small group Assessment
Ementor Wiki – a wealth of resources and information
Ementor wiki
ACENETWORK wiki
Sue Waters’ Wiki
The Edublogger
• Get excited – get on board and get ahead of the pack!
