What can e-Learning do for me?

What can e-Learning do for me? Andy Ramsden  Roger Gardner  Nitin Parmar The e-Learning Team e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

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Reflection Assessment & feedback Communication Collaboration Audio Visual Location Aware e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Which themes are you most interested in exploring?

Reflection

Assessment and Feedback

Collaboration

Communication

Audio Visual

Location Aware

e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

 Reflection  e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Edublogs: http://edublogs.org Wordpress.com, http://wordpress.com Audience Response System: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ARS/

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Reflection

Blogging

Bath Blogs, Edublogs, Wordpress

Comments by anyone

Personal Journal [Moodle]

Comments by teacher only

e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/ PUBLIC PRIVATE

 Assessment & Feedback  e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Assessment and feedback

Diagnostic/formative assessment

Moodle quizzes

Online submission of assignments

Moodle assignment

Instant feedback

F2F – Turning Point

Online – Moodle choice

SMS

Diagnostic / formative assessment: Moodle Quiz

Features

Objective testing

Immediate feedback

Flexible options

Variety of question types

Import/export of questions

Questions can be re-used/shared

Uses

Regular low stakes assessments to engage & guide performance

Reading or lecture checks

Practice for exams

Check understanding (to inform teaching)

Online submission of assignments e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Instant feedback – Moodle choice e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Audience Response System (ARS)

Allows students to participate actively in lectures, seminars, tutorials and labs

Allows for immediate submission of responses to questions; viewed as a graph

Data saved for later analysis by reporting tool

Project website, http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ARS/

SMS/Texting

Students will use the technologies that are owned and appropriate to them and not those prescribed by the institution

For example, the lecturer uses mobile technologies to interact with the cohort

Project: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/SMS/

 Collaboration  e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Wikis

A social website that anyone can edit

Editing is done using a “WYSIWYG” editor

using [WikiMarkup] ]

Moodle Wiki moodle.bath.ac.uk

Confluence wiki.bath.ac.uk

University of Bath hosted

e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/ [ source: What Is A Wiki? , http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI0626.pdf ]

A course handbook to support PGCE administration To support group coursework [see e-Learning Case Studies] As a resource for anyone

What is social bookmarking? STORE TAG SHARE ACCESS FROM ANY PC LINKED TO THE WEB e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Example 1 – Bookmarking in Diigo BOOKMARK TAG DESCRIBE CATEGORISE SHARE OR NOT! RSS FEEDS e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Example 2 – Searching in Diigo SEARCH IN DIIGO SEE WHAT OTHERS HAVE TAGGED – NEW LEADS SEE OTHERS’ ANNOTATIONS CONNECT TO OTHERS WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

 Communication  e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Synchronous communication

Instant Messaging (IM) tools

MSN Messenger

Yahoo Chat

Google Talk

ICQ

AIM

Synchronous communication

Audio/Video Conferencing

Asynchronous communication

Discussion Forums

 Audio Visual  e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Self-creation of content

Photos: Flickr

Podcasting

e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/ EDIT PUBLISH CAPTURE iTunes Learning Materials Filestore http://www.bath.ac.uk/lmf/ Juice

Video: YouTube

Video: BubbleComment

Third-party creation of content

Photos: Flickr [Creative Commons]

Audio: iTunes [podcast directory]

Video: YouTube , TeacherTube

Presentations: SlideShare

Photos: Flickr Creative Commons e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Audio: iTunes [podcast directory] e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Video: YouTube , TeacherTube e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Presentations: SlideShare e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

 Location Aware  e-learning@bath.ac.uk  http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/

Spatially aware learning activities Thoughts about the impact of the physical environment. Walk around a physical space with a GPS enabled device. As the student enters an area then information is made available on their device, such as, text, an image, audio or web based material.

field based work

Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs, video, websites, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging

Enhanced connectivity

The fieldwork experience

captured in my field note book

create and share learning activities

real time problem solving

effective access to people

effective access to data

Games & simulations Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and "treasure“. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

The travel bug