Teaching For Online Learning

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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WebCt

HEDU

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