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What constitutes excellence in an eteaching environment?
Michael Coghlan
TAFE SA
eLearning Facilitator
http://flickr.com/photos/98912535@N00/1297788517
Movie: The 21st Century Student
Abstract
The marriage of education and Internet technology has effected an extraordinary assault on perspectives about teaching and learning. The role of the teacher, the nature and context of learning, the role, relative importance and agency of course content* are all being challenged and redefined. The mobile nature of much 21st century learning complicates the picture even further. The use of laptops, smart phones, and tag and code readers implies multiple contexts for learning, the blurring of social and academic spheres of activity, student collaboration and production of content, and a view of teacher supplied content as starting point rather than definitive resource.* Excellence in teaching now involves a new relationship with students and content. How many of us are ready and equipped for this task?
* With thanks to Dr Norbert Pachler for these perspectives
Learning in the 21st Century
http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/
Adrian Miles (RMIT)
“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”
Learning in the 21st Century
“ I have seen predictions that a student doing a 3 year course by 2012 will experience the situation where most of the knowledge they have gained in year one will be completely out of date by the time they finish year 3.”
“…the only sustainable approach…will be to find the learning and teaching strategies which will ensure that people embrace attitudes and behaviours anchored in lifelong learning.”
“It is becoming …an imperative for industry to have staff who are lifelong learners and highly ICT literate.”
Greg Black, CEO, education.au (Campus Review 16/10/07)
Chickering and Gamson’s 7 Principles for Good Practice encourage contact between students
and faculty develop reciprocity and cooperation
among students encourage active learning give prompt feedback emphasize time on task (time
management) communicate high expectations respect diverse talents and ways of
learning
1. Self Awareness2. Online communication skills3. Learning together4. Facilitation skills5. Intercultural antennae6. Tolerance for ambiguity7. Switching contexts8. Technical skills9. Cut people slack
8 Competencies of Online Facilitation (Nancy White)
Paradigm Shift #1
Collaboration
Asynch
Synch
Oral Written
DialogicMinimalistic
Reflective; combination
of dialogic and monologic
Most structured form
ofcommunication
COMMUNICATION AXIS
Networked Learning
MULTIPLE CHANNELS
Paradigm Shift #2?
COMMUNITY-CENTRIC
Virtual Worlds
The excellent eteacher:
has an online presence/website (eg course homepage on LMS, or own website, blog, etc)
Knows how to use technology for delivery and assessment and therefore has a blog, a wiki, or podcast site
Includes media in delivery and production of teaching materials and student assessment
Models and teaches digital literacy Creates and provides digital resources Teaches search, validation, and verification skills Employs and models RSS as a means of aggregating
and distributing content
The excellent eteacher:
Teaches about, and employs collaborative approaches
Acknowledges the nature and influence of horizontal learning (multitasking)
Knows when to encourage vertical learning
Switches between sage and guide as appropriate
The excellent eteacher:
Knows when to call in the wisdom of the experts to balance the wisdom of the crowd
Acknowledges the value of informal learning
Accepts that engaging learners is necessary (and that probably means using technology)
The excellent eteacher:
Acknowledges that students may assess the value of a resource via their networks rather than accept the word of the expert (teacher/lecturer)
Uses social bookmarking for collective mining and sharing of resources
Is a good (and frequent) online communicator Knows how to effectively combine synchronous and
asynchronous modes of delivery Is able to teach in a virtual classroom/web conferencing
environment (eg Centra, Elluminate, etc) Must be e-connected and draw on the resources of their
networks to remain current (and demonstrate to students)
Resources
http://newlearning.wikispaces.com/ Chickering and Gamson’s 7 Principles for Good Practice (
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm)
Designing eLearning Flexible Learning Toolboxes Thinking about the ‘M’ in M-learning (Dr Norbert Pachler) (paper to
be part of forthcoming proceedings of mLearn conference, Oct 2007)
The 8 Competencies of Online Interaction (Nancy White) Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments -
http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=23
Michael Coghlan
eLearning Facilitator
TAFE SA
Presentation will be available at
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc