cat herding or collaborative learning?
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CAT HERDING OR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING?
Teaching the Reluctant Teacher in Moodle:
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Your hostDr Stephen DannSenior Lecturer, MarketingSchool of ManagementThe Australian National University
One of those front line grunts who teaches students
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The Late Adopter• Why so resistant?– Late to the party
– New to the university
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What motivates the late?
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What makes up the late adopter?
Three R• Reluctance• Reticence• Resistance
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Reluctance• Five features
– Relative advantage– Compatibility– Complexity– Trialability– Observability
• Rogers (1995)
If we’re not actually better than what they’re
already doing…what are we thinking
when we ask for change?
Rogers, M.R. (1995) Diffusion of Innovations, 2nd edn. London: MacMillan.
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Reticence• Resisting the desire not
to ask– not revealing one's
thoughts or feelings readily
• “Everyone else can do this already, why can’t I?”
Don’t tell people you’re tracking data on the help menu functions
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Resistance• Just because I’m last,
non-compliant, and doing things the hardest way I can, it doesn’t mean I’m wrong
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Two things to knowInnovation Theory + Change Management
Minimum Viable Presence
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Innovation Cycle
Rogers, M.R. (1995) Diffusion of Innovations, 2nd edn. London: MacMillan.
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Barriers to Change• What do our late adopters feel they give to use
Moodle?– What worries them?– Do they feel confident they can do it?
• Why haven’t they done it in the past?• If they have, why did they quit?
– What costs are perceived?
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Lewin's Change Management ModelBecause everyone loves models
• Unfreeze– Accept the need to change
• Change– Do things differently
• Refreeze– Reseal the deal
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Minimum Viable Presence
Managing the Flamingo
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We are not the minimum standard adopters
• We care about what happens behind the curtain…– Who is back there anyway?
– Is that the mysterious G.I. Thub, guardian of the repository?
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Playing the Bloom Game• Dealing from the
bottom of the deck– Aim for remembering– Hope for understanding– Celebrate Applying
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Minimum Viable Presence
• Upload a file
• Create a label
• Provide a link
• Create an assessment
• Know when they don’t know
• Not break anything intentionally
• Know when something is broken
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Minimum VALUE Presence
• Joy of creation Moodle
• Personally getting something useful out it
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MVP Requires Planning
• How little is enough?
• What is the default?– one hour session? – one page?– One take home?
• One weird trick?
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Experience of Training• Technical Skills
– Basics
• Personal Skills– Resilience
• Emotional Skills– The Joy of Moodle
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Personal skills• Resilience
– capacity to recover quickly from difficulties
– Knowing when to go for help
– Learning to break things in style
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QUESTIONS?