Transcript Blended Learning Seminar

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 higherorder 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
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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
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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
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Textbooks
Student Projects and Oral Reports
Language Lessons
K-12 Classroom Interactions
• Cultural
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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
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– 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
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MySpace
Facebook
Cyworld
Drupal
Windows Live Spaces
Trend 12
Synchronous Conferencing
• Corporate Training Webinars
– Illuminate
– Sentra
– Webx
• Tool for Higher Education
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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 technologyenhanced projects each year
• Make a web page to organize your
online resources for students