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Staff Development Centre
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Handouts that work!
A research based approach to developing teaching handouts
Staff Development Centre
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Content
The questions about handouts that we hope to address in this session include…
• What roles do handouts play in learning and teaching?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to handout production and use?
• Can familiar technological tools enhance the impact of the handouts we produce?
• What ‘transparent’ tools can we use to aid this process?
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Introduction
• The handout is written into the warp and weft of academic life
• Not only do students want – even expect – a handout to accompany teaching sessions…
• …but we want one tooHow many of us would leave sessions like this feeling a bit cheated or negligent if we didn’t take away a set of handouts?
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How our practice had developed
• We had defaulted to using PowerPoint handouts; occasionally 6 to a page, usually 3 to a page
• Very convenient, because once prepared your teaching slides– are ready to photocopy and hand out
– to put on the Web or a VLE
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but… we had reservations
1. Inflexibility of layout– …linked to visual patterning of notes– Imagine being a student getting 4 or 6 of these
a week!
2. Problems for note taking and supplementing content of the handouts.
3. Problems for those with a range of disability and learning problems.
4. Key pedagogical issue was producing handouts that would help participants learn as much as possible
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What are the functions of notetaking, and how do lecture
notes assist? There are two generally recognised functions of notes (DiVesta and Gray [1972])
i) encoding – where students record and make sense of teacher given material
ii) external storage – which covers not only the keeping of material, but also reviewing it.
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This gives us three conditions,
a) encoding only - taking notes but not reviewing them
b) storage only – reviewing material taken by or provided by someone else
c) encoding and storage – taking and reviewing notes
Research shows that the encoding and storage condition is most consistent with better student learning and recall
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Importance of Encoding
Students learn best when
– they learn actively – they engage cognitively with material
– handout should encourage – and allow for – student engagement
• N.B. Good reason not to bow to student requests for ‘complete texts’
Problem is that students not all very good at recording key material left to own devices
• students typically record only 20-40 per cent of important lecture ideas Kiewra (2002)
• Processing is so complex not all students will manage well. In encoding teachers bear responsibility not just to present material but to cue it in such a way so that key points can be recognised
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Importance of External Storage
Taking notes is not enough
In order to learn and recall information, access to and reviewing also important
This means filling in and thinking about material during and after the session, and not merely using it for revision.
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Which forms of handout help do this?
Many studies have looked at whether • students compiling their own notes, • using outline material or • using complete material
produce the best outcomes – e.g. Russell et al (1983) reported by Dehn (2003)
and Kiewra and colleagues (2002)
• the idea of the outline form emerges well…
• …especially if accompanied by review and extension
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What types of handout do you use?
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HOW? With style(s)
• The Advantages of Using Styles…– Well structured & accessible
• Support the learning process– Easily amended – More easily converted to web pages
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HOW? Creating a presentation
• Start with a WORD document
• Use the styles hierarchy
• FILE > SEND TO > POWERPOINT
• Tidy up the resultant PowerPoint slides
• Create any diagrams in PowerPoint
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HOW? Styles hierarchy
• HEADING 1 – creates a new slide
• HEADING 2 – creates an item in a bullet-point list
• HEADING 3 etc – creates a further indented item in a bullet pointed list
• NORMAL – explanatory text that will appear in the handout but not in the presentation
• Use VIEW > OUTLINE
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A new blend
TECHNOLOGY /Pedagogy
PEDAGOGY /Technology
Handouts initiative
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WHY? Advantages over starting with PowerPoint
• Well structured & accessible
• Support the learning process
• Easily amended
• More easily converted to web pages – and to multimedia resources
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WHY? The virtual lecture
• Module: Optical Fibre Communication (EG3024), Engineering
• Tutor: Professor John Fothergill, University of Leicester
• Online lectures - 15 minute learning objects on key topics; PowerPoint presentations converted using Impatica (www.impatica.com)
• Online supporting materials – existing course materials; publishers materials (eg OU book and video); formative assessments
• Online discussion boards – ‘no e-mail’ rule (except for personal matters); tutor support for discussion threads
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The ResultsOptical Fibre Communications mark distribution
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Professor John Fothergill (2005)
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Examples of e-Staff DevelopmentRecent work of the Staff Development Centre at Leicester include…
Principal Investigators Project
• Leadership • Selection
http://www.le.ac.uk/researchleader/
Staff Induction & Development (SID)
• Diversity• Workstation audit
http://blackboard.le.ac.ukhttps://blackboard.le.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_4112_1
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of this handout format?
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Feedback
Weaknesses• Less engaging/drier• Still two documents?• Linear nature of PowerPoint?Strengths• Adaptable for students with specific
learning needs• Reinforcement in 2 different formats• Ability to include notes and exercises• Paper saving?
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Strengths of our handout template
• Note sets take on distinctive and individual shapes
• Easily configurable by students according to individual needs
• Allow exercises, discussions etc to be included
• Forced us to think about appropriate level of detail to put in… and what to leave out
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Weaknesses of our handout template
• If developing/improving a session, both PowerPoint and Word versions need to be updated
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Caveats and Next Steps
• Handout notes are not a panacea to solve teaching problems– only if allied to good structuring– cue giving– blending of delivery and engaging activity
• Our approach is but one way of using the research evidence to develop handouts as learning resources
• If you develop other models, please keep it touch – even to discuss work in progress
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Further developments
• A new process
• Capacity
• Flexible delivery
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A New Process
• Storyboard (and Handout)
• Presentations
• Multimedia resource
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What transparent e-learning tools do you have access to?
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Capacity
• Reducing the technical barriers to content creation
• Enables practitioners to participate in the creation and redrafting
• Easy reversioning
• The key development has been:-
• Pedagogy and design are now the key criteria in appointments (not technology)
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Flexible Delivery
• Preparation
• Integration
• Innovation
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Examples of e-Staff DevelopmentRecent work of the Staff Development Centre at Leicester include…
Principal Investigators Project
• Leadership • Selection
http://www.le.ac.uk/researchleader/
Staff Induction & Development (SID)
• Diversity• Workstation audit
http://blackboard.le.ac.ukhttps://blackboard.le.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_4112_1
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The development of learning
e-
E-learning 1.0
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Library
• Web search
• Discussions
• Learning diary
• Portfolio
• Observations
Formal learning
Informal learningSummative assessment
E-learning 2.0
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The development of learning
Repository
Blended course
Communities of practice
Content
Communication
Little or no communication
Within a course or programme
Knowledge building or reflection
Source of information
Pre-structured course
Co-structured course
(after Collis & Moonen and Salmon, 2002)
2. Socialisation
1. Access & motivation
3. Knowledge exchange
5. Development
6. Knowledge exchange
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How would you use such capacity?
• What have you done to include e-learning in your courses?
• What advantages (and disadvantages) does such an approach have?
• What e-learning would you like to include in your courses?
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E-Learning: Resource Development & Student Support
Course Objective: To enable participants to develop online learning materials and become better online Tutors(option of 15 ‘M’ Level credits)
Tutor: Tony Churchill, University of Leicester
Content:Over ten weeks participants access:-
– Discussion groups - a wide range of activities taking 15 minutes per day (on average)
– Tasks focus on planning, designing and creating a learning resource– Pilot & critique resources created by other participants…and create their own e-tivities!
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Caveats and Next Steps
• Handout notes are not a panacea to solve teaching problems– only if allied to good structuring– cue giving– blending of delivery and activities to engage students actively
• Our approach is but one way of using the research evidence to develop handouts as learning resources
• If you develop other models, please keep it touch – even to discuss work in progress
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Staff Development Centre