kd elearning notes

General notes on eLearningA high-level guide for organisations embarking on

digital learning for the first time

Phillip KingstonKingston Development

www.kingstondevelopment.com.au

Background• All knowledge that we have to offer can be found on Wikipedia or

other such medium

• Not many people are doing eLearning well – therefore it isn’t easy!

• A lot for us to learn in why people are failing

• (Unfortunately) Many great e-learning systems are internal and as such advances in public online pedagogy are stalled

• Technology is pedagogically neutral

Phillip Kingstonwww.kingstondevelopment.com.au

General Constraints

• No budget for face-to-face e-learning

• Little availability of real-time or short-delay support

• Desire for global reach


4 Stages of Competence

• Unconscious IncompetenceInteractive and fun system can create desire and recognition of deficit. What’ s our pitch

• Conscious IncompetenceOnce they know their deficit, they are complicit

• Conscious CompetenceThis is the aim of our digital learning platform

• Unconscious CompetenceGenerally thought to be unattainable online


Illeris and Ormorod

• learning is commonly defined as a process that brings together cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences and experiences for acquiring, enhancing, or making changes in one's knowledge, skills, values, and world views (Illeris, 2000; Ormorod, 1995)


5 Why’s

We know the benefits of digital learning, the “Why” question, what we don’t know is the

“How”

How technology is used is much more important than which technology is used


Multimedia learning principles

• Modality principle• Redundancy principle• Spatial Contiguity Principle• Temporal Contiguity Principle• Coherence Principle• Individual Differences Principle

... WikipediaPhillip Kingston


Common Digital Learning Failures

• Extraneous cognitive load– Split attention effect

• Lesson plans – what are we actually trying to teach? Diffusion of learning effect. What is addressed, but How is not.

• Too broad on subject matter, not enough repetition / consolidation. Over-estimate technology

• Bias toward visually sexy instead of robustness• Aim at a reasonable and hit it


Radical Constructivist view

1. Knowledge is not passively accumulated, but rather, is the result of active cognizing by the individual

2. The function of cognition is an adaptive process that functions to make an individual’s behaviour more viable given a particular environment.

3. Cognition serves the subject’s organization of the experiential world, not the discovery of an objective ontological reality

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Theory we wish to embrace

• Dual / multi coding theory = mixed mode• Worked examples• Don’t forgo “interesting” for Redundancy

Principle -> addition of interesting doesn’t affect learning performance in practice

• Focus on two things:– Presentation of educational content– Facilitation of educational processes


Effective e-learning Design Patterns

1. Learners’ collaboration2. Learners’ cooperation3. Learners’ multiple perspectives4. Learners’ multiple representations of

content/idea/concept5. Social negotiation among learners

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KD aren’t specialists

• We need your help. • We need help with:– Your own learning methodology– What you’ve learnt that works and doesn’t work– Learning objectives / subject matter


Our Solution

• Regular low-touch bite-size engagements• Short term memory appropriate – 7 pieces of

info per screen• Macro picture -> link to micro• Lots of clicking and horizontal integration• Connected learning• Real world action and real world learning


Our Solution Methodology

Overcome unconscious incompetence through compelling imagery and demonstrable value proposition

Show a small amount of educational content per pageEncourage linking between concepts and between the

programme areas Use quizzes to build confidence and confirm learningAdhere to scholastic standards – abstract, what you’re

going to cover and how long it will takePhillip Kingston


Business Considerations

If you are going to charge for your online offering:

Demonstrate a clear value proposition– Skill acquisition to achieve certain outcomes e.g.

This course allowed me to do X.

Justify the price– Working out a per hour rate e.g. This course is

only $2.50 per hourPhillip Kingston


kd elearning notes

Documents

wikipediaphillip kingstonwww

digital learning

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people

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deficit