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Essi Vuopala LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research UnitUniversity of [email protected]

STARTING INTRO -COURSE- INTRODUCTION TO LEARNING AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

2013-09-13


Objective

• The goal of the course is to examine the role of educational technology as a part of the possibilities and demands of the learning society in different learning contexts.

• In this course, the students familiarize themselves with the theoretical background, core concepts, and practical applications of learning and educational technology.

• Students become acquainted with the different constituents of expertise, in connection with which they reflect upon their own expertise path in a digital portfolio.

• One central goal of this course is to learn to use and evaluate information and communications technology pedagogically.


Contents

• Significance of educational technology in a learning society• Basic concepts related to educational technology• Introduction to the study of learning and educational technology: objectives, research subjects and the theoretical framework• Expertise and reflecting upon one’s own expertise• Central ICT applications


Learning objectives

After this course the student can• describe the basic concepts of educational technology• name some of the central research topics in the field of

learning and educational technology• identify societal trends and strategic policies affecting

the research field of educational technology• describe the central characteristics of collaborative

expertise• use core utility software and information networks and

evaluate their pedagogical usability• plan and implement a digital portfolio in a blog

environment


Course assessment

• Grading: 0-5

Based on Active participation on lectures, ICT Workshops

and collaborative studying Portfolio assignments 1-5 Digital portfolio as a whole (content, structure

and technological implementation)


Digital portfolio in INTRO course

• The portfolio will be evaluated by its contents (portfolio assignments 1-5), structure, and technical implementation.

• The evaluation of the portfolio will also considerably affect the final grading of the course.

• Return/evaluation date 2013-11-01– portfolio assignments have their own return dates– Evaluation criteria in wiki

• The portfolio assignments given in other courses will be evaluated as a part of those courses.


Introduction to Learning and Educational Technology 6 ects (INTRO) 418019P

COURSE STRUCTURE

WEEK 37 PORTFOLI

O ASSIGNMENT

1 & RE

ADING

ARTICLE

WEEK 38 PORTFOLIO

ASSIGNMENT 2

&

READING

ARTICLE

WEEK 39 PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT 3 & READI

NG ARTICL

E

WEEK 40 PORTFOLIO

ASSIGNMENT 4 & READI

NG ARTICL

E

WEEK 41 EVALUATION

ASSIGNMENT

WEEK 42

ICT –workshop G1, KTK138Wednesday 2013-09-11 14:15-16:00Thursday2013-09-1212:30-14:00

ICT –workshop G1, KTK138Wednesday 2013-09-1814:15-16:00

ICT –workshop G1, KTK138Monday2013-09-238:15-10:00Wednesday 2013-09-2514:15-16:00

ICT –workshop G1, KTK138Monday2013-09-308:15-10:00Wednesday 2013-10-0214:15-16:00

ICT –workshop G1, KTK138Monday 2013-10-078:15-10:00Wednesday 2013-10-0914:15-16:00

ICT –workshop G1, KTK138Monday2013-10-148:15-10:00Wednesday 2013-10-16 14:15-16:00

ICT -workshop G2, KTK138Wednesday2013-09-1108:15-10:00Thursday2013-09-1208:15-10:00






LECTURESThursday2013-09-1210:15-12.00KTK215

Friday2013-09-1314:15-16:00SÄ102

LECTUREThursday2013-09-1912:15-14.00KTK303




GROUPWORKThursday2013-10-1712:15-14.00KTK303

GROUPWORKFriday2013-09-2012:15-14.00BK122




FINAL MEETINGFriday2013-10-1812:15-14.00BK122

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO


Portfolio assignments

Portfolio assignment 1 (weeks 37-38)”Learning and educational technology" - write a short blogpost where you describe your current understanding about educational technology. Describe also your personal aims for educational technology studies.

Portfolio assignment 2 (weeks 38-39)Describe how your understanding about educational technology and pedagogical use of ICT has developed after first lecture and jigsaw-session. Draw a mindmap.

Portfolio assignment 3 (weeks 39-40)How the ideas of collaborative learning, selfregulated learning and learning of expertise are linked to educational technology? Supplement your mindmap with these ideas.

Portfolio assignment 4 (weeks 40-41)Supplement your mindmap with the ideas presented in panel "Global perspective to educational use of ICT"Evaluation assignment (weeks 41-42)Read at least two blogs by your fellow students and give him/her comments concerning both the contents and technical implementation of the blog. When evaluating the blog, you can utilize the evaluation criteria of this course. When evaluating the technical implementation you can pay attention to visual aspects, technical functionality and logic of the structure.

https://wiki.oulu.fi/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=30607000&highlight=evaluation_criteria.pdf#Course+info-attachment-evaluation_criteria.pdf


Working methods

• LecturesRoom KTK

• ICT Workshops / Jari Laru Room KTK

• Jigsaw/ Essi VuopalaRoom KTK

• Individual studying

• All the slides and instructions can be found at: http://www.oulu.fi/let/node/12243

http://www.oulu.fi/let/node/12243




Essi Vuopala, Oulun yliopisto, Oppimisen ja koulutusteknologian tutkimusyksikkö

Jigsaw method

PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3


Evaluation criteria

1 2 3 4 5Contents Coverage

1-2 course topics are discussed.

Several main topics of the course are discussed.

All main course topics are discussed.

All course contents are discussed. 1-2 topics are discussed in more detailed.

All course contents are discussed profoundly. Few related topics are also taken into discussion.

Level of discussion

Superficial and incoherent.

Declaratory and summarizing.

Mostly summerizing but also some argumentation and own thinking.

Deep level: reflective and critical discussion mainly based on one’s own experiences.

Deep level: critical and scientific discussion.

Use of references

Inadequate, core readings of the course is not utilized.

Core readings of the course is somewhat utilized.

The use of core readings is comprehensive.

Core readings and some additional material are utilized comprehensively and the contents of different materials are well integrated.

In addition to core- and additional course material some other scientific articles are utilized.

Structure

Scattered and illogical

Scattered and illogicalto some extent

Clear, simple, coherent.

Clear and coherent in spite of multi-level content discussion.

Well structured, logical, insightful.


QUESTIONS

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Introduction to Learning and Educational Technology Collaborative StudyingThursday 2012-09-13

EXPLORING AND MAPPING YOUR PRIOR KNOWLEDGEOF LEARNING AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY• Form a group of 3-4 students• Discuss:

– What comes to your mind when you think of learning and educational technology?

– What kind of things have you experienced, read, seen or heard?

– What could be the most important concepts in that field? – How could they relate to each other?

Create a concept map / mind map as a team• You can write or draw• Use different colors, fonts, shapes, arrows etc.• Do it in your own style :)