I am excited at some progress I have just made. I had difficulty getting into my account and went winding. At long last I have got it from distant e-learning tutorial from John. It is great to see the excitement arround. I can't afford to be left behind!
Christine
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Great progress indeed! Welcome to the blogosphere!
ReplyDeleteWhat you (and we as the module facilitating team) are experiencing is an important part of getting to grips with e-Learning.
It is important to take note of these initial struggles and feelings that goes hand in hand with a new (or maybe unknown) creative process such as becoming a blogger. What you are experiencing now in person, is more or less what your own students will experience when they have to e-learn whatever you are going to facilitate with the help of technology.
In any e-learning course, the first week is usually spent getting people to say hi to each other, and to sort out the technical niggles.
That is exacly what we have been doing the last five days. Now that (almost) everybody is up and a-blogging, we can turn our attention to the juicy bits of the e-learning apple (or shall I say ADDIE).
Best of luck.
Welcome Christine
ReplyDeleteI think this is exactly what I was talking about earlier..... the fear of the unknown has kept a lot of staff members holding e-learning at arms length. It is important though to remember that a new learning environment requires us to become self-directed learners and this is the crux of what we are asking of our students. Far too often you hear staff commenting in a tea room somewhere that they are tired of having to baby students and just wish that they'd realise they're not in school anymore,well, to that I say, WE need to change our approach and facilitate their learning in greater proportions than teaching them.
Yes this is exciting....so welcome aboard this amazing ride with the rest of us!
Well done Christine for taking up the challenge!
ReplyDeleteI have realised more and more the impact of early exposure to IT (e.g. from school) and how much easier it is for these people to adapt to computer-based education compared with those that are exposed only later in life.
I think this also has an impact on educators use of IT in their education of students ... lack of knowledge/skill can be intimidating and anxiety-provoking and us as educators (being human) tend to stick within our comfort zone.
So yay! Good for you for getting out there!
thanks for all the comments. I am just reflecting on an interesting experience I had today. When I told my colleagues in a discussion that I was taking the e-learning elective one said he would rather not have anything to do with it as he does not think he can appreciate it. He is in his 50's. Upon reflection I realise that one should not take the uptake of e-learning by all students for granted. Especially in mature students there may be some apprehension which needs to be addressed. Christine
ReplyDeleteMirta, Thanks for the web address of the textbook. I have spent some time today looking at the debate on instruction design and the mode of delivery- which improves learning?
ReplyDeleteI shall appreciate some comments on this debate. For or against with justification.
Christine
Christine, I am not sure which debate you are referring to. Are you saying that one should choose between instructional design and mode of delivery? Or that the issue is whether any of the two improves learning?
ReplyDeleteI am not so sure that one can seperate the two. One always has to do instructional design (even if it is done "in your head" or subconsciously) and one always has a mode of delivery (textbook, presentation, web-based, social media etc etc).
Do you perhaps have a link to the website/ material that you looked at so that we can join in your thoughts.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThe book: Theory & Practice of Online Learning
edited by Terry Anderson & Fathi Elloumi.
cde.athabascau.ca/online_book
Yes I think so too that one cannot seperate the 2 and upon reflection I noted the points below.
Design instruction (content &strategies)/
Delivery technology (vehicle that delivers the instruction)–which improves learning? This is an interesting debate. I think they complement each other. I just put down a list of things that I think will contribute to the success of e-learning : challenging, relevant, simplicity, fun, interactive, accessible with flexibility not limited by time and space, and authentic. This last reminds me of 2 books I read recently (not electronic though). “The first was animal farm” I found most of these attributes and my engagement was so infections that my colleagues in administration also read it.We often identified the characters during the course of our work including ourselves! There are children who abandon school and use the time for all sort of extra-curricular activities. It is interesting to find many of such children in internet cafes now browsing during normal school hours. Should the educational material be delivered using the computer and presented with fun would the attention of these children in the classroom have been engaged? I will aim at incorporating these attributes related to adult learning theory in my project as far as possible.
Christine.
Hi Jason,
ReplyDeleteI have not read any comment from you what are you up to?
Christine