Educational Communication and e-Learning

Educational Communication and e-Learning Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni

People Presentation

Professor : Lorenzo Cantoni

Collaborator : Succi Chiara

(chiara.succi@lu.unisi.ch)

Participants : We all

Communication : Teaching Aids

Class Schedule:

Monday 15:00-16:30

30 Minutes Break

17:00-18:30

Vision

Reasons to attend this course:

Use of High Rank Officials:

Managers Use Educational Communication To Teach the Workers in Offices and Factories.

Knowledge Society:

Modern Knowledge Society Exchange their Views and Knowledge through E – Learning

Technologies for Educational Communication

People involved in the Development of Systems for Educational Communications need to know the ins and outs of Educational Communication and E – Learning.

Mission & Goal

1st layer:

Explicit / Declarative Knowledge: “To know that...”

Example: I know that Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh.

2nd layer:

Implicit / Operational Knowledge/ Know-How/ Skill

Example: Swimming, Speaking, Thinking JAVA, Driving, etc.

3rd layer:

Attitude

Example: To be Patient, Collaborative, Positive, Committed, Aware of …, etc.

Knowledge - Know-how - Attitude  GOAL

Methodologies & Tools

Methodology

Lectures (topic presentation and discussion)

Readings (Referred Papers/Articles + Blogs)

http://newmine.blogspot.com/ (during the period of the course).

Slides

Tools

COL3 : (http://corsi.metid.polimi.it)

Describing a Course

Study load (credits / CFU / ECTS)

Contents

Pre-requisites (Informatics knowledge, English language ability for this course)

Vision

Mission

Goals

Calendar / time table

Activities

People & Roles (Professor, teaching activities etc)

Learning tools / Aids / Books & Bibliography

Space (teaching room)

Evaluation & Testing

Special Gear

Special rules (distance learning & e-learning needs to know the rules)

Fees

How do we learn? We Learn by … There is a consistency between Example and Verbalization. What you say and what you do, it should be perfectly aligned. Experience: Pedagogic contract- needs knowledge to describe the world and my desire in order to reach in an interaction. Verbalization: Learning about atoms, neutrons, anatomy etc. Experience: By others Modelling: karate movements, sports, target shooting, play piano, fishing, working with woods, stones, etc. Experience: By Ourselves Example: Look, watch, listen & behave accordingly. Within 6 years we learn a lot by example like watching others Speaking, Dancing, etc.

Communication Model 1/2 Communication is a kind of Interaction which is needed in different levels. Interactive Model by Human Activities Scenario: Drinking a Cup of Coffee in a Bar Knows The World Thinks of a possible State We want it [ Describe World ] [ Describe our desires ] Chain of Activites to Reach The Bar & Order The Coffee

Communication Model 2/2 Scenario: Drinking a Cup of Coffee in a Bar named GIGI Knows The World Thinks of a possible State I want it Knows The World Thinks of a Possible State I want it Interaction (Language to Manage Interaction) Chain of Activities Fight Bargain Collaboration

Calendar

Evaluation

Explicit Knowledge will be tested by exam

Implicit Knowledge will be evaluated by a project (Described and evaluated through structural process)

Marks Distribution

10% (up to 3) slide preparation

30% (up to 9) group work and presentation

60% (up to 18) written exam

an example will be presented in class

both marks have to be sufficient

Bibliography

ASTD and The Masie Center (2001) E-Learning: “If We Build It, Will They Come?”, Alexandria, Va: ASTD.

Eppler, M. J., & Mickeler, F. (2003). The evaluation of New Media education: key questions of an e-Learning measurement strategy. In Cantoni, L. and Schulz, P. (eds.), Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS), 4 [special issue on New media in education]: 39-59.

Lepori, B., Cantoni, L. and Rezzonico, S. (eds.) (2005). EDUM eLearning Manual. NewMinE report 3, University of Lugano.

Masie Center (2003) Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards: A Decision Maker's Guide to their Adoption (2nd edition), available online at:http://www.masie.com/standards/s3_2nd_edition.pdf

Schulmeister, R. (2003). Taxonomy of multimedia component interactivity: a contribution to the current metadata debate. In Cantoni, L. and Schulz, P. (eds.), SComS, 4 [special issue on New media in education]: 61-80.

Weinberger, A. & Mandl, H. (2003). Computer-mediated knowledge communication. In Cantoni, L. and Schulz, P. (eds.), SComS, 4 [special issue on New media in education]: 81-105.