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Practical Experience with Avatars, Blended Learning, and Representation

Bertram (Chip) BruceGraduate School of

Library & Information ScienceUniversity of Illinoisillinois.edu/~chip

go.illinois.edu/leep

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AbstractIn a class meeting face-to-face and online at the same time, teacher and students collaborated to make it work.  Learn from the professor and students about how they overcame problems and worked through strategies to make sure that all students, sitting in the classroom or on the screen, equally felt that they were part of the class.  You will see their techniques demonstrated, and hear the lessons learned.

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Graduate School of Library & Information Science

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#1 LIS school in the US

Helped develop the field of LIS (1893)

Oldest LIS doctoral program (1948)

Advanced degree in digital libraries (2005)

Charter member of the iSchools Project

University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS)

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The need: Access

Distance

Professional, family obligations

Health issues

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LEEP distance education option

Award-winning online education program (1996)

Now includes more than 50% of GSLIS students

Model for others, including WISE consortium

Near 100% completion rate

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LEEP technologySynchronous: Elluminate https://www.elluminate.com

Asynchronous:

discussion forums, calendar, assignments (Moodle http://moodle.org)

wiki (Confluence https://www.atlassian.com)

blog (Wordpress https://wordpress.org)

LEEP weekend: On campus, face-to-face sessions

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What makes LEEP successful?

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1. One program

Full value for jobs & further study

Transfer of knowledge across courses

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2. Organic development

Faculty involvement in design & implementation

Teaching while traveling

Learning pedagogy

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3. Diversity as a resource

Diverse pool of instructors

Students from diverse communities: Barrio of East LA, Tlingit community in Alaska

Different professional settings

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4. Match to workplace & life

Professions increasingly defined in terms of information & communication technologies

Building on student experiences

Communication & collaboration

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5. Community of practice

Students learning from one another

Connection to

alums

professionals

community

other courses

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6. Technology support

For both online & on-campus teaching

Session archive

Audio/video displays

Online interaction, e.g., whiteboard

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7. Research, reflection

Learning & re-learning technologies

Shared analysis of problems

LEEP retreat for instructors

Presentations, journal articles, & books

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Why LEEP works1. One program

2. Organic development

3. Diversity as a resource

4. Match to workplace & life

5. Community of practice

6. Tech support

7. Research & reflection

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Inquiry-based learning class

Student from Québec, on campus 3 wks

Student traveling to Malawi, away 3 wks

Student in Illinois who’s physically present every other week

Student with health or family problems

Archive of sessions for all

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Inquiry-based learning class: Modes of participation

LEEP participant full-time: synchronous + asynchronous

LEEP participant half-time: asynchronous only

On campus participant

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Group work

Separate discussion forums

In and out of class group meetings involving both on campus and remote participants

Use of websites, Community Inquiry Labs, blogs

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Avatars

Usually means an online version of a person

Here, an in-person representation of someone present only online

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Blended learning

online, mobile, face-to-face media

varying pedagogical approaches

mix of theoretical with practical work

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Disappearance of technology

Bruce & Hogan (1997). The disappearance of technology: Toward an ecological model of literacy, http://hdl.handle.net/2142/13343

Bruce, Eastburn, & D’Arcy, (2009). How media ecologies can address diverse student needs, http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9761

Haythornthwaite, Bruce, Andrews, Kazmer, Montague, & Preston (2007). New theories and models of and for online learning. First Monday 12(8). http://fwd4.me/M5t

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not online learning or blended learning or hybrid learning or technology enhanced learning => simply...

learning

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Questions?chip@illinois.edu

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