TEAM TEACHING IN THE AGE OF E-COLLABORATION Flavio Manganello September, 3 2009 Università Politecnica delle Marche Facoltà di Ingegneria DIIGA

Online team teaching Design Evaluation Management Knowledge sharing Reciprocal help [Trentin, 1998] Co ordination Co decision Co llaboration

Design

Evaluation

Management

Knowledge sharing

Reciprocal help

[Trentin, 1998]

Collaborative Virtual Environment Distributed digital environment to support synchronous activities Online Cyber Classroom (1) Integrated VLE to support asynchronous activities Learning Management System (2) Common shared workspace Concurrent Multiple Access Online text chat Shared whiteboard Joint web browsing Desktop sharing Remote control Multiple users can take actions at the same time in the common shared workspace Synchronized display of the same information to all users

Distributed digital environment to support synchronous activities

Online Cyber Classroom (1)

Integrated VLE to support asynchronous activities

Learning Management System (2)

Online text chat

Shared whiteboard

Joint web browsing

Desktop sharing

Remote control

Multiple users can take actions at the same time in the common shared workspace

Synchronized display of the same information to all users

Team teaching: Home Meeting (1) Teachers have a first “meeting” to discuss about the course design

Team teaching: Home Meeting (1) Another “ in itinere ” meeting is needed to refine some aspects related to course evaluation and management

Team teaching: 3C (2) Asynchronous communication ’s flows allow teachers to remain in contact and prepare to synchronous meetings

Team teaching: 3C (2) An online digital archive is important to share and to exchange information and documents

Team teaching: Home Meeting (1) During the first online cyber classroom, the “ two-teachers’model ” is adopted to lecture

Expositive lecture Broadcast model Learning is a process that goes from the teachers to the students TEACHER Knowledge provider Directive team teaching model The “Fontaine de Barenton”, detail (Karl Reizabech, XXth century)

Expositive lecture

Broadcast model

Learning is a process that goes from the teachers to the students

TEACHER

Knowledge provider

Collaborative team teaching model Problem Based Learning Meaningful Learning [Ausubel, 1962] Scaffolding [Bruner, 1976] TEACHER Facilitator, coach From the movie “Friday Night Lights” (2004)

Problem Based Learning

Meaningful Learning [Ausubel, 1962]

Scaffolding [Bruner, 1976]

TEACHER

Facilitator, coach

Team teaching models [Chen, 2004] Directive models Collaborative models Synchronous activities (online cyber classroom) Two-teachers model One concentrates on lecturing, the other one concentrates on responding to questions in the text chatroom Three-teachers model One concentrates on lecturing, the second one concentrates on responding to questions in the text chatroom, the third one concentrates on preparing material to the whiteboard Asynchronous/distributed activities Two-teachers (or tutors) Management of a community of practice or of a learning community Synchronous activities (online cyber classroom) Two-teachers (or facilitators) Management of a web seminar or of a student-led discussion

Synchronous activities (online cyber classroom)

Two-teachers model One concentrates on lecturing, the other one concentrates on responding to questions in the text chatroom

Three-teachers model One concentrates on lecturing, the second one concentrates on responding to questions in the text chatroom, the third one concentrates on preparing material to the whiteboard

Asynchronous/distributed activities

Two-teachers (or tutors) Management of a community of practice or of a learning community

Synchronous activities (online cyber classroom)

Two-teachers (or facilitators) Management of a web seminar or of a student-led discussion

Some key points Definition of activities and choice of a pedagogical model Definition of technological tools Definition of an (inter)relations’ model among actors Teachers ’ coordination Analysis of teachers’ profiles and definition of roles Management of leadership Implementation of a “ script ” Elements of “ project management ” Management of technological tools Multimedial environment

Definition of activities and choice of a pedagogical model

Definition of technological tools

Definition of an (inter)relations’ model among actors

Teachers ’ coordination

Analysis of teachers’ profiles and definition of roles

Management of leadership

Implementation of a “ script ”

Elements of “ project management ”

Management of technological tools

Multimedial environment

Reflections Teachers' step forward Personal and professional identity Performance [Maragliano, 2009] Vocation to collaboration Collaboration is a process that happens if particular instrumental abilities subsist, not only related to the technology Behavioral aspects of digital collaboration and communication Virtual Ethnography [Hine, 2000] Media Richness or Media Naturalness [Kock, 2005] Mutual confidence and trust

Teachers' step forward

Personal and professional identity

Performance [Maragliano, 2009]

Vocation to collaboration

Collaboration is a process that happens if particular instrumental abilities subsist, not only related to the technology

Behavioral aspects of digital collaboration and communication

Virtual Ethnography [Hine, 2000]

Media Richness or Media Naturalness [Kock, 2005]

Mutual confidence and trust