e learning bootcamp introduction
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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
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Where’s the Content?
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One with the lot
Paths of eLearning
From Wikis to Live Blogging
From Skype to Elluminate
From Wikis and Blogs to the Internet