ntlt 2013 - katrina marwick - online individual learning plans

Learning Champion Project 2013

Online Individual Learning PlansA tool for effective learning & successful

outcomes?

NTLT 2013

Learner Journey At NMIT

• ILPKnowing

the Learner

Knowing the

curriculum demand

Knowing what to do

Knowing how to do

it

HOW DO THE ILP’S WORK FOR A BUSINESS STUDENT?

ORIENTATIO

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3. LIFE SKILLS & BALANCE

1 THEIR GOAL & QUALIFICATION STRUCTURE

2. ACADEMIC STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSESS

INITIAL MEETING MONITORING MEETINGS

FINAL MEETING

WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT IT ?

• FEEDBACK SOURCES

• QUESTIONS ASKED

STRENGTHS OF THIS MODEL

UNDERSTOOD PURPOSE

“ The purpose is to clarify your learning path and help you make the right decisions as to the best way to reach your learning goals”

“ I think it is good having someone show you the course you should take and align things with your end goals in mind.

“one thing that I found was helpful was is I have got my partner supporting me through this I have been able to show him the comments from my tutors that have all been positive and I can say see look I am doing good and she actually wants me to go onto the BCOM – hmm “ (she mimics her husband grunting).

APPRECIATE TUTOR COMMENTS

VALUE STUDY PLANNING SUPPORT

VALUE NEUTRALITY OF LEARNING ADVISOR

“it is great to have that independent person you can go and talk to when you are really not happy but you don’t want to offend the tutor.”

“Provides among other things a process so students issues to be raised and progressed with an appropriate and consistent mix of information flow and confidentiality “

TUTORS CAN MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL DISTANCE

STUDENT FEEL SUPPORTED Rae Perkins guides me through it and made difficult decision easier to make by giving me the information I needed.

WEAKNESSES OF THIS MODEL

LACK OF TUTOR INPUT

“If the tutors were going to use it a lot, then it would be much more beneficial.”

LACK OF STUDENT INDEPENDENT ENGAGEMENT

“I don’t feel like the effort of documenting challenges, strategies and successes is worth the benefit it gives. Usually when I'm faced with a challenge, I am more focused on working out how to overcome it then spending time documenting them.”

POOR FORMAT AND ACCESSIBILITY

“Prompts reminders, flowcharts perhaps - something a little less formal, being able to add pictures , emoticons is there an ILP how to guide, what ILPs intention is.”

“Make it more simplistic and accessible. Make people embrace it more.”

“If it did have our study plan and assignments and essays and a bit more of a calendar sort of thing, then we would be in there a lot more.”

LACKING INCLUSION OF STUDYPLAN, TIMETABLE, ASSESSMENT RESULTS AND ATTENDANCE INFORMATION

“for instance if somebody is good at marketing and doesn’t actually know how to get into the industry of it. It would be good to have suggestions from a learner coach as in how they could integrate into that business. Not necessarily directly into it. But the starting blocks of being able to go into a job. “

DOESN’T ADDRESS GRADUATE

PLACEMENT

Individual Learning Plans

Katrina Marwick Learning Coach Tourism & Travel

Tourism and Travel Programmes Level 3-5

learners taking responsibility for their journey

Principles of Inquiry Learning …..

Who am I and who do I wanna be and how am I gonna get there?

to download thoughts and feelings from learner’s head and heart to an online facility.

ILP

Individual Learning Plan - a tool

learner

Set target

apply actions

comment

feedback

Self-analyse

Respond-new

target

• share the journey• discuss goals & targets• question• comment• report progress• respond

focus on building a team & having fun….

“Who am I and who do I wanna be and how am I

gonna get there?”

Meet Deadlines on Assessments

& Homework

No Cell phones!

Facebook

No!

Be in class on time

Learners agree to…..

thoughts to words = ILP.

ALNAT & ILP

Outcome-Set SMART target that commit to actions

“What am I going to do to bridge gaps in my learning?Who can I go to for help that I need?”

Conversations

Experiential Learning

Manager-Nelson iSite

learners self-analyse against essential skills

Guide-Wilsons Abel Tasman

Industry Practice

March Fest

my life is so god-damn busy… trying to

balance my kids, study and house… setting

targets taking one bite at a time I’m getting

there

Me!Support

team

ILP

ILP not a priority I have more

important things like assessments

MeSupport

team

ILP

my ILP is a road map it keeps me

on track!!

ILP place to recognise my learning, give me direction-broken in to targets, goals reflections… Easy to use

Teachers can know what is going on in our lives, an opportunity to talk to teachers indirectly….. sometimes it’s hard to talk directly to them

Not an effective use of time, don’t

have to write down my goals they are in my

head

Too busy with course work

there are too many pages and we don’t have time to go through everything, our life is very busy

some tutors comment on it but not much in comparison to how much we are asked

to use it

what we get out of it is lacking - somehow it needs to be integrated

Not feeling connected to my learning- not interactive-a one way relationship

So what did I learn from this feedback?

DependentWorking towards Independent

This feedback inspired me to:

Stop directing students to ILP, instead make time to: • Frequently comment on every ILP• Promote inquiry questions • Encourage wider participation• Facilitate problem solving• Encourage learner self- reflection

Online Individual Learning PlansA tool for effective learning & successful outcomes?

Questions?

Thank you – enjoy your journey

Katrina Marwick katrina.marwick@nmit.ac.nz

Rae Perkins rae.perkins@nmit.ac.nz

Carole Crawford carole.crawford@nmit.ac.nz