Blended Learning Seminar

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Constructivist Learning• Authentic, complex, real-world performance

• Facilitate process of student inquiry

• Develop greater domain expertise, problem solving, and transfer of learning

• Immersion into community of practice

• Make visible how experts view, interpret, and act

Interaction Promotes• Negotiation, Clarification, & Feedback

• Communication: share information & opinions

• Participation: discussions, leadership in cohorts

• Elaboration: conceptual hooks, explanations, examples

• Learner Self-Regulation: manage depth of study, range of content, & time management

Interaction Promotes• Motivation: curiosity, creativity, and higher-

order thinking associated with authentic learning tasks

• Team Building: effective listening, shared responsibility, acceptance of individual differences

• Discovery & Exploration: cross-fertilization when sharing ideas and perspectives in pursuit of defining new constructs & concepts and the scope, depth, and breadth of a new idea

Convergence of Digital and Mobile Technologies

Interactive Learning Enhanced by– Extensive Wireless Networks– Web Conferencing, Digital TV, Streaming

Audio and Video– Notebooks, Tablets, Palms, Pocket PCs,

IPods, and Cell Phones– Modular content objects for personalizing,

customizing, and enriching learning as defined by the learner

Blended Learning Trends

• Dr. Curt Bonk– Professor of Educational Psychology as

well as Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University.

• Bonk’s Castle of Learning– http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/

Trend 1 Course Management Systems

• Commercial– BlackBoard – WebCT

• Free– Sakai Project– Moodle

Trend 2 – Wireless Technology• Indiana, Purdue, and Ball State

(leaders in wireless)

Trend 3 – Mobile Technology• Japan, Taipei, Korea (highest level of

bandwidth)

Trend 4 Reusable Content Objects

• Resources that can be used to provide a learning experience (web sites, lessons, video clips, images, audio file, people)

• Reusable, shareable, repurpose, cost effective

• Merlot - sharing objects or web links

Trend 5 - Blogging

• For instructors– Professional practice– Networking and knowledge sharing– Stephen’s Web - Stephen Downes

• Reads and summarizes a lot of information on ed tech

• For students– Reflection or journals– Dialogue with peers– Group work– Communicate with instructor– Share ideas and get quick feedback

Trend 6 – Electronic Books

• Instructor annotations and reader annotations

• Thinner and better displays will probably help this movement

• Wikibooks– Community developed book– History or time log of the process– Peer reviewed and evaluated web site– What I Know Is – WIKI – Hawaiian term for quick– Mediawiki or tikiwiki or pbwiki

Trend 7 - Podcasting• Education

– Coursecasting• Lectures on Stanford’s or Purdue’s websites

– Textbooks– Student Projects and Oral Reports– Language Lessons– K-12 Classroom Interactions

• Cultural– Adam Curry – Daily Source Code (formerly of

MTV) – Audiobooks– Interviews– I-Tunes – Podcast Alley– Podcast.com

Trend 8 – Virtual Worlds or Virtual Reality

• MMOG - Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming

Trend 9 – Collaborative Tools• Sharepoint

– video conferencing– Free with XP– Document sharing

• Groove• Google Groups• Yahoo Groups• MSN Groups• Smart Groups

Trend 10 – Open Courseware• MIT, Tufts, Utah State, and Johns Hopkins

putting courses up for free• Oops project – opensource opencourseware

prototype system - translate courses in English to Chinese

Trend 11 – Social Networking Web 2.0

• MySpace• Facebook• Cyworld • Drupal• Windows Live Spaces

Trend 12Synchronous Conferencing

• Corporate Training Webinars – Illuminate– Sentra– Webx

• Tool for Higher Education– Breeze – Macromedia– Illuminate Light– Learning Journeys– Learning Times

• Indiana – webinars synched to PowerPoints archived at the website

• Central Florida University– best university for teaching faculty to teach online

Debra’s Tips

• Model Life-Long Learning Habits• Pursue Professional Development in

Technology• Develop your curriculum bit by bit

over time to include more technology-enhanced projects each year

• Make a web page to organize your online resources for students