Online And Mobile Technologies For Student Support
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The document discusses strategies for supporting distance learning students through their studies. It covers preparing and inducting students, providing pastoral support, facilitating student learning, and assessing students. Preparation includes informing students about course requirements and technologies. Pastoral support involves maintaining contact and encouraging struggling students. Facilitation of learning analyzes challenges students face and provides activities and technologies to help overcome them. Assessment addresses assignment preparation, submission, and feedback. The goal is to help students succeed while studying at a distance.
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- 1. Online and mobile technologies for student support Dr Janet Macdonald Refocusing ODL in the Nigerian University System. Abuja, Mar 2011
- 4. 1. Preparation and Induction
- 7. Lost Disheartened Isolated Demotivated Abandoned at a distance Out of time Frustrated Perils of distance learning
- 8. Strategies for pastoral support Fellow students Family Tutor Regular contact/encouragement from: “ You can do it…keep going..its worth it..”
- 9. Technologies you might use for pastoral support What tools can your students access? What are they familiar with? Social networking Forum Skype Sms or instant messaging phone
- 12. 3. Facilitating student learning
- 13. From Lecturer Course content + Facilitator
- 14. The classroom
- 17. Macdonald & Campbell (in press) 1. Reasons for evaluating theories (interactive quiz) 2. Reviewing the criteria –participants make a link to definitions 3. Participants evaluate a theory using criteria, apply it and discuss their ideas Level one students find evaluating theories difficult. It is an important skill and a specific learning outcome for the final two assignments. Evaluating theories (Social Science) Activity Rationale Aims
- 18. Macdonald & Campbell (in press 1. Demonstration of BlueJ: writing line of code, compiling, observing the results 2. Allow participants to practise using shared application BlueJ is the tool students use for writing and executing code. Learning how to use it can be daunting for a novice. Writing and running simple code (Computing) Activity Rationale Aims
- 19. Technologies you might use for facilitating student learning What tools can your students access? Web conferencing Quiz/simulation Forum Radio and podcasts Sms or instant messaging Phone/Skype Classroom!
- 21. 4. Assessment
- 23. Strategies for assessment Help before assignment Feedback afterwards: to group/individual Assignment preparation Submission
- 24. Technologies for assessment Where will students be when they prepare assignments? What access to technology? Plagiarism detection Email/forum/blog Web searching Word processor
Editor's Notes
- Which parts of the course must they do? All MCQs/quizzes? Weekly attendance at Q & A online? Technologies eg do they know how to use a blog, Skype, pen drive, online quiz
- This means the business of keeping students on the course, not letting them drop out, not leaving them confused.
- These are hot spots for drop out amongst our students: initial couple of weeks, Time between one course and the next Difficult Assignments Final exam What about your students? Other issues Time management Part time study/work and family commitments
- Scottish Peer Support project – run by alumni for students on two courses with low retention rates.
- What is facilitation and how do you do it?
- Change of role. From lecturer in the classroom, to an author of course materials, and a facilitator, who explains parts of the course, and corrects misunderstandings and helps students to learn. This could be reactive – in answering queries which students have, or proactive, in identifying when students will need more help.
- In a classroom the teacher can see when the students don’t understand. Distance learning is not the same For students it is really valuable for talking to other students and seeing that you are not alone. And you can ask questions when stuck.
- A transformed way of understanding or interpreting or viewing something, without which the learner cannot progress.” I believe these theories are extremely valuable as a way of thinking about facilitation in blended learning, and deciding which parts of the course will demand extra help from the tutor. They might also be areas when you need to target online quizzes, and perhaps get students to write an assignment .
- Here is an example of learning design which starts with identification of a problem area before formulating a suitable activity
- Value of synchronous communication for explaining Value of asynchronous discussion for learning from fellow students.
- Encouraging, often illuminating, especially when don’t know how to pronounce new terms
- Assignments important for developing ideas and getting formative feedback from tutor and sometimes fellow students Writing is central to study at university or college particularly because it is needed for preparing and producing assignments, whether they are written or oral presentations. A variety of online and mobile tools are in use for writing. Once writing is in digital form it can be readily edited, re-used and shared with others, and it becomes possible to integrate a variety of multimedia resources into written work.
- This is a metaphor for the potential which online systems have for distance learning! The student is no longer in a sealed room. There is scope for tutors to be in touch with each other on a regular basis There is scope for using outside resources Responsibility for supporting students can be shared Students can readily be in touch with fellow students, or even with alumni who have left the university But we have to watch they don’t walk out the door!