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Engaging learnersVocational Technology Enhanced Learning
My experiences MA-TEL
University of Wales –Trinity Saint David
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IntroductionThis study focuses on how learners can be engaged in courses similar to the MA-TEL course
MA-TEL course characteristics:
Is an online course
Full of electronically resources (e-books, electronic journal articles, videos, images, numerical data, voice recordings, transcripts, web applications and web documents)
Full of learning e-tivities
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Engage means to…Occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons)
Attract and hold fast
Attract or please
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DespoLisa
Demitris
MarkVicky
Efi
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Engage Students by Embracing/Enhancing Technology
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Learner’s engagement during MA-TEL
First week’s introductions ( both learners and tutors feel comfortable and relief )
User friendly environment
Ease of access to the new online environment
Careful weekly modular design of the course triggered learners to want to stay connected and post to the forum and discuss every single idea/opinion expressed
Variety of resources (readings, videos, URLs)
E-tivities included each week (relevant, focused to the week’s topic, not so complex or time consuming ) and helped to establish a pattern of online behavior
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Learner’s engagement using authentic activities and a balanced combination of the two learning metaphorsActivities included were authentic (meaningful, real activities)
New technology tools (like Compendium, blogs, twitter etc.) were introduced/used in wrestling with real everyday working topics (enculturation)
Successful and balanced combination of acquisition and participation metaphors of learning
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Learner’s engagement using learning tools
Jane Hart’s web site
Had a look at the Directory of 100 top learning tools
Get familiar with at least one tool (potentially useful) for a planned course and explored it in more depth
Posted on the forum area the usefulness of this tool in terms of learning components (individual/social; non-reflective/reflective and/or information/experience and the learning theory (situated learning, experiential learning etc.) the tool could support
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Learner’s Engagement by interactions
Learner to Content
Learner to Learner
Learner to Tutor
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Anderson’s equivalency theorem Deep and meaningful formal learning is supported as long as one of the three forms of interaction is at a high level.
High levels of more than one of these three modes will likely provide a more satisfying educational experience
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Learner’s Engagement using Scaffolding
Every week new attractive tools were introduced (blogs, twitter etc)
Every week our tutors made less and less interventions
Soon I experienced that the above is known as …scaffolding
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Learner’s Engagement using constructivist learning tools
Use of Blogs as a tool for reflection to support construction of knowledge and skill and
retain engagement beyond the MA-TEL course and beyond traditional asynchronous e-Learning
Using blogs helped us:remained active and engaging in interactions and explorations
integrated new ideas with prior
articulated our learning goals and monitored our progress in achieving them
remained cooperative, collaborative, and conversational
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Learner’s Engagement using Twitter
Twitter was used not only as a social media tool but as a notification tool also
Using the #CourseCodeNo all relevant tweets were easily and quickly distinguished from the specific learning community
Use of Twitter during MA-TEL course increased learner’s engagement, satisfaction and retention
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Conclusion Engagement using E-Tivities
MA-TEL learner’s engagement was achieved mainly due to the incorporated E-tivities which were:
motivating, stimulus, challenge and purposeful
based on interaction between learners, content and tutor/s, mainly through written message contributions
designed and led by an e-moderator/tutor
asynchronous and synchronous using constructivist learning tools
cheap, fun and easy to run – usually through online forums or virtual classes
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Contact detailsDespo Palli
Cyta – HRD&AC
Tel: +357 22701356/99610356
e-mail: [email protected]
https://despablog.wordpress.com
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ReferencesUWTSD, [online] MA Technology Enhanced Learning, http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/ma-tel/ (accessed 3 June 2015)
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