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Email Debra - daustin@law.du.edu What program are you in? Why are you taking this seminar? (Data for COE re 1 credit courses) Your preferred email address. Blended Learning Seminar. Constructivist Learning. Authentic, complex, real-world performance Facilitate process of student inquiry
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Email Debra - daustin@law.du.edu • What program are you in? • Why are you taking this seminar? • (Data for COE re 1 credit courses) • Your preferred email address Blended Learning Seminar
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 higher-order 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 • For students • 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 • 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 • Textbooks • Student Projects and Oral Reports • Language Lessons • K-12 Classroom Interactions • Cultural • 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 • 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 • MySpace • Facebook • Cyworld • Drupal • Windows Live Spaces
Trend 12Synchronous Conferencing • Corporate Training Webinars • Illuminate • Sentra • Webx • Tool for Higher Education • 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 technology-enhanced projects each year • Make a web page to organize your online resources for students