sharing success factors for online independent learning activities

Sharing success factors for online independent learning activities

Simon.davis@york.ac.ukUniversity of York, UK

• Background• The matrix & mapped examples• Categorised support mechanisms• Next steps

Background - staff questions and aims

• Common questions– “Show me what’s possible”– “What do I need to do to make it work”?

• Aims– Highlight transferrable exemplars and approaches– Balance between ownership and simplicity;

• Somewhere between “unsupportive theoretical maps” and “restrictive… black boxes”

– Create accessible, visual representation to support staff

Background – learning design modelIndividual

Social

Non-reflection

Reflection

Experience

Information

G.Conole et al / Computers and Education 43 (2004) 17-33

Independent learning activitiesIndividual

Social

Personal reflection / research:Individual reflective blogging /

Dissertation research

Individual practice:Self-assessment with feedback

Formative quizzes / screencast worked solutions

Group creative / problem solving:Student Law Firms (PBL), Primary text

commentary / creation

Collaborative “fact finding” / analysis:Provided data analysis exercises /

Collaborative synthesis of primary reading for online text book

DirectedAutonomous

Individual

Social

Autonomous Directed

Developing community of practice (Models of writing)

Individual

Social

Autonomous Directed

Primary text commentary / creation (Futurism)

Developing community of practice

Individual

Social

Autonomous Directed

Primary text commentary / creation

Developing community of practice

Data analysis and presentation (Social Interaction & Conversational Analysis)

Individual

Social

Autonomous Directed

• Regular feedback• Maintain individual motivation• Clear instructions and rationale• Short tasks for measurable skills

development• Scaffold to greater autonomy

• Explicit benefit from group element• Consider group dynamics • Feedback through social aspect

• Clearly defined parameters and instruction

• Direction to appropriate resources• Clear direction to help and support• Structure / agreed milestones for

larger projects

• Consider group dynamics / roles• Common understanding of end

product• Engagement with marking criteria

Developing the matrix

• Self access resource – Integrate with online case studies for illustration– Integrate with tools guide for implementation

• Questions around the model– Is this clear, accessible and valid?– Is this undermined by fluidity?– Additional info to include?