e learning bootcamp introduction

eLearning

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Rick McKinnon, Ph.D.

Supported by the WIRED grant from the State of Washington

How do you feel about elearning?

A. All hat and no cowboy?

B. A necessary evil?

C. A valuable complement to f2f teaching?

D. Undecided?

eLearning

advantages disadvantages

• Students can access info

On their own schedule

• Mobile access to content

• Time to think and respond

• Accommodates a wide

range of learning styles

• Students don’t know how

to access classroom

• No opportunity for f2f

questions

• Time consuming to

prepare

• Too much information

eLearning = Paradigm Shift

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Networked Learning

Peers are important

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Multiple Intelligences

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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 Organizing

• Self-management

• Learning

• Technology

Executive Functions

• problem solving

• decision-making,creativity

• planning

• inhibition

• meta-cognition (thinking

about learning)

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What’s eLearning 2.0?

Source: Dr. Tony Karrer, TechEmpower

eLearning 1.0 eLearning 1.5 eLearning 2.0

Components Courseware, LMS Reference, LMS,

Groups

Wiki, Social Networking,

Bookmarking

Ownership Top-down, one-way Top-down, some

collaboration

Bottom-up, user-driven,

peer learning

Development Long, Expensive Rapid, Expensive Immediate, Rapid,

Cheap

Duration 1-2 hours 15-60 mins Continuous

Delivery At one time In many pieces As needed

Access LMS Email, Intranet Internet, Search, RSS

Creator Third Party Subject Matter Expert Expert & End Users

Institutionally driven

Member driven

FormalInformal

Top-down rules

for creation,

operation and

governance

Emergent

Bottom-up

norms, not rules

Enabling Culture

Culture of compliance

Institutionally driven

Member driven

FormalInformal

Top-down rules

for creation,

operation and

governance

Emergent

Bottom-up

norms, not rules

Mapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools

Wikipedia

e-PortfoliosProfile tools

Blogs/Wikis

Flickr

Chat

Tagging Tools

(del.icio.us)

List servers

Forums

Online

journals

LMS

Mapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools

From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an

eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005

SOCIAL SOFTWARE TOOLS

• Instant Messaging (Skype)

• Virtual classrooms (Elluminate, DimDim)

• Blogs (blogger.com, Drupal)

• Photo Sharing (flickr.com)

• Wikis (Wikispaces.com) – collaborative workspace

• Social Bookmarking (http://del.icio.us/)

• Personalised learning environments, or PLEs (http://elgg.org/)

• Social Networking sites (MySpace, Facebook)

Many of these sites encourage contributing content (text and media) to the

read/write web.

User Generated Content (user =

teachers and students) – WHERE

DO YOU PUT IT?• If not on public sites, where?

– Media rich blogs

– Digital stories

– Audio files

– Podcasts

/

Where’s the Content?

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Scribd

(documents)

YouTube

(video)

Podbean

(audio)

Slideshare

(powerpoints)

Flickr

(images)

Angel Classroom

Where’s the Content?

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YouTube

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Podbean

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Flickr

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Paths of eLearning

From Wikis to Live Blogging

From Skype to Elluminate

From Wikis and Blogs to the Internet