teaching for online learning
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Teaching for Online-Learning
Carol BondRussell Butson
HEDC 2 Nov 2000
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1. Our beliefs about on-line learning and teaching
2. The relationship between those beliefs and our use of the world wide web for teaching and learning
3. Ways of reconceptualising on-line learning
In this workshop we explore:
Web Site Screen
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Imagine you are a student…
What are your first impressions of the sites?
What are the intentions of the ‘author/s’ of the sites?
QUESTIONS…
SITE ACTIVITY – 1
Discussion - 1
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What beliefs about:
…learning underpin these approaches?
…teaching underpin these approaches?
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Beliefs About Teaching
Teaching as Transmission:
acquiring knowledge, transmitting it efficiently and
efficaciously, and checking that it has been learned.
goals — means — ends
SITE ACTIVITY - 2
Discussion - 2
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How does this approach differ from the first?
Again imagine you are a student – what are your first impressions of this approach?
What do you think the intentions of this type of environment are?
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Beliefs About TeachingLearning in partnership
Working co-operatively to construct knowledge
Collaborative and focuses on the development of processes and skills
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Beliefs About Learning
Learning as reproducing: passively acquiring and reproducing what is given.
Learning as relating: making relations between new knowledge and what was previously known.
Learning as transforming: constructing personal knowledge.
Learner Centred and Teacher Centred Approaches to TeachingLearner centredness: Teacher centred
approaches:focuses on general learning outcomes
focuses on specific content
encourages diversity expects common outcomes
requests that a 'product' is constructed
requests that knowledge is communicated
evaluates the product i.e., understanding
evaluates the communication
builds learning teams that construct and produce knowledge
encourages individual or group communication
facilitates social learning communities
focuses on the knowledge
computation communication interaction experience
Behaviourism
Cognitivism
Constructionism
PARADIGM SHIFTS
1950---------------------------------------------------------------------------2000
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What Are Some Goals of Online Conversations
Building group coherence among students
Sharing information Processing ideas Online tutoring Refine communication skills Provide feedback to students
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Online Learning as a Collaborative
Activity students with one another
with their teachers
with experts in their fields of inquiry
with the community at large
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Taxonomy of Online
Conversations transacting: for the purpose of
negotiating or exchange within an existing problem setting;
transforming: when individuals suspend their personal opinions or assumptions, and their judgment of others' viewpoints; and
transcendent: where the purpose is that of moving beyond or "leaping out" of existing mindsets.
FORMAL - INFORMAL
SITE ACTIVITY - 3
Questions
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DIGITIZEPRESENTSYSTEMS
L EC TUR E NO TES
TUTO R I A L S
FACTOR-INWEB
TECHNOLOGIES
W O R K S H O PS
D EM O NS TR A TI O NS
Em a il - L is tS e rv e rs
S I M UL A TI O NS
V I D EO
FO R UM S /D I S C US S I O NS
K NO W L ED G E B UI L D I NG
PUB L I S H I NG
C O G N IT IV E
A F F E C T IV E
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