tutoring in online and distance education
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Tutoring in online and distance education
D-TEL 2016, Kristiansand
Sven Åke Bjørke & Aleksandra Lazareva
Department of Global Development and Planning
Collaborative learning
• Active knowledge construction
– Negotiation, explanation, argumentation
• Empowering students to take responsibility for their own learning
What’s collaborative learning?
Let’s figure it out!
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The four Cs
Four key qualities for the Information Age
Creative,
efficient Communicator,
Critical thinker and
Collaborator
Asynchronous collaborative learning
• Backwards design
– Focus on what the students will have learned when completing the course
– Learning activities rather than what the teacher delivers
• Flipping the classroom
– Different levels of understanding (Bloom’s taxonomy)
– Articles & videolectures discussions
High quality learning situation - ”Productive interaction”
• Active engagement
• Frequent teamwork
• Regular interaction and feedback
• Basis in realistic and motivating tasks
• Contextualised
• Dynamic and adapted for change
• Peer assessment
Collaborative learning circle
Read
Discuss
Assess
Reflect Do /
Make
Assess
Discuss
Major pitfall
• Taking for granted that collaboration will occur simply because technology makes it possible
– Usually collaboration doesn’t happen spontaneously
– Lack of experience in collaborative learning
– Insufficient training in the use of technology
Online collaborative learning
• Benefits
– Different backgrounds (cultural, institutional, professional)
– Different prior knowledge
– Learning across time and space (e.g., asynchronous platforms)
– Presence
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Lack of social cues
Often based on expectations; temporal organization challenge
Different behaviors are considered relevant
Common ground challenge; different need for support
Role of the teacher
• Guiding learners in the process of inquiry
• Monitoring learners’ understanding
• Addressing dysfunctional group phenomena
• Tools in use • Course structure and requirements
• Safe environment
• Encourage
• Monitor
• Prompt
Pedagogical Social
Technical Managerial
Online tutoring
Assessment
Assessment is part of the learning process
Online credit giving course (example)
• 60% home exam
• 30% group hand-in
• 10% individual portfolio: – Online quizzes
– Participation statistics
– Contributions in discussion forum & group hand-ins
– Individual blogs
Thank you!
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E-book: Team and online collaborative work http://grimstad.uia.no/puls/Groupwork/main.htm