ntlt 2013 - katrina marwick - online individual learning plans
DESCRIPTION
Online Individual Learning Plans A tool for effective learning & successful outcomes?TRANSCRIPT
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
N
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!
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 [email protected]
Rae Perkins [email protected]
Carole Crawford [email protected]