Developing Web Tool Savvy Online-Instructors in the Human Services Disciplines

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Everybody here is invested in the future of technology as a tool for successful innovation in education. We may spend our working hours immersed in educational technology, we may eagerly teach using the exciting, cutting edge applications and environments found on the web, or we may be actively involved in the research and development that guides the effective use of today's tools and the discovery or creation of tomorrow's tools. But so what. The realm of educators who are actively involved in, or intrigued by educational technology will never encompass the vast majority of educators teaching day-to-day in classrooms and online, in schools and at universities. For these teachers their subject is their passion, teaching well given class sizes and resources is their challenge, and their experience of technology is, at best, that of convenient tools adopted as needed, or at worst, an increasingly complex world of jargon and trinkets of which only email has been embraced.

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Enthusiasts can use Web 2.0 to revolutionize learning! but
Web 2.0 Innovations must move from early adopter to the everyday classroom. Image by Erik Mallinson
Most online courses at UVic follow a static LMS-based model. Comic by Leigh Blackall
An LMS provides additional barriers to adopting Web 2.0 tools.
Solution: Manage the successful adoption of one tool that makes a genuine difference in learning within the instructor’s course.
Don’t start with a tool that just does something an LMS can do, only better.
Start with tools that provide a unique new ability.
Select tools with a simple interface. image via Stijn Vogels
Train individual instructors in the context of an actual learning technology application. Image by Larry Strong
Support students and instructors during development and delivery.
How can we spread the use of Web 2.0 tools?