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The use of role play and VLEs in teaching Environmental Management Juliette Pavey Danny Donoghue University of Durham 18 th November 2003

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Page 1: The use of role play and VLEs in teaching Environmental Management Juliette Pavey Danny Donoghue University of Durham 18 th November 2003

The use of role play and VLEs in teaching

Environmental Management Juliette Pavey

Danny Donoghue University of Durham

18th November 2003

Page 2: The use of role play and VLEs in teaching Environmental Management Juliette Pavey Danny Donoghue University of Durham 18 th November 2003

LTSN GEES: VLEs 18/11/03

The ExerciseRole play exercise designed to show how aPlanning Process might address a conflict between Nature conservation and an industrialdevelopment

The students work within designatedguidelines to research the issues anddevelop a good knowledge of theirassumed organisation’s remit

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Objectives To promote group discussion

Students to reflect on issues and the views of others

To gain an understanding of the Legislation

Application of knowledge to a given problem

To expose the students to an alternative learning situation

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Adoption of Learning Environment

Group function

Discussion boards

Access to onlineinfo sources

Enhance tutor to student and student to student interaction

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Implementation 100 students into groups of 10 Each group assigned a particular role Encouraged to informally assign roles

themselves within their groups Discussion forums and web pages within

the VLE formed basis of role-play activity

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Implementation

Web pages provided information to enable students to formulate ideas/opinions

Encouraged to contribute to discussion board to share info with other group members

After 2 weeks of collaborative online work the groups assembled face to face in 3rd week.

Groups members nominated to present their case to an independent assessor

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eLearning activity 1

Delivery through BlackboardRationale:

Student’s had previous experience Emphasis on first stage of Gilly Salmon’s five

stage model ‘access and motivation’ From a monitoring perspective more

apparent who had/hadn’t taken part Archive of discussion

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Group instructions

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eLearning activity 2

Access to online materials Student’s actively encouraged to access web

based in addition to paper based materials

Rationale: Focus on student-centred learning, encouraged to

broaden knowledge through online materials Students to share their information and knowledge

through asynchronous chat or email in Blackboard

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eLearning activity 3

Access to online interactive map Students directed to an interactive map

showing a fictitious geographical site of the study area

Rationale: Enabling students to form mental picture of study

area To develop arguments in the context of this physical

site

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Discussion boards

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eLearning activity 4

Asynchronous discussion Within their groups students encourage

to carry out 2 tasks over 2 weeks via the discussion board:

1. Share extra info they have collected via the web

2. Share ideas and begin to formulate arguments

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eLearning activity 4Rationale:

Group size

Enabled greater flexibility

Alternative learning method

Aim to promote deep learning – ability to access information at a later time

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Student Feedback Generally positive feedback

‘when it all came together in the final session, it did work and was very interesting’‘excellent resource, especially the group pages, very useful’

Some negative feedback Emerged mainly from the fact that they felt

that it was a lot of work considering it was not an assessed piece of work

Some felt that not all members contributed equally to the discussion:

‘it’s quite hard to work as a group in discussion pages if some members don’t participate’

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Statistics 2002 78% had explored the interactive

map 80% accessed the discussion board

(although not all contributed) 80% recommended that supporting

materials should be developed as web pages similar to this in other modules.

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Changes following 2002 evaluation

Self selection of groups More involvement from tutor as

‘emoderator’ More information about etivities Encourage greater ‘socialisation’

prior to exercise Encourage informal ‘roles’ within

groups

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web-based paper-based combination ofboth

Preference for Learning

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The effectiveness of the web pages as a learning resource

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Recommendations Provide rationale Facilitate interactivity: eg self selection of

groups, assigning roles within groups Encourage participation/be responsive Provide direction Provide area for informal discussion Private

group space can foster enthusiasm and ownership of materials

Socialisation and familiarity important for discussion

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Contact details

Juliette Pavey, Learning Technolgies Team, University of Durham.

[email protected]://www.dur.ac.uk/its/lt/