5. Screen
controls
• Users
module
– Assign
presenter
– Raise
hand
• Listeners
module
– Mute/un-‐mute
microphone
• Whiteboard
– Upload
presentaJon
– AnnotaJon
tools
only
for
presenter
• Chat
– All
– Private
chat
6. Affordances
• Discussion
– There
is
some
Lag
– Those
familiar
with
Elluminate
will
noJce
fewer
interacJve
tools
– The
interacJvity
is
in
the
facilitated
conversaJon
7. On-‐line
seminar
• Benefits
and
challenges
of
communiJes
of
pracJce
in
higher
educaJon
– h(p://openbrookes.net/copsinhe/
8.
9. Identity, literacy and community in
(partially) synchronous distributed
learning environments
10. 3 events of current interest as new form of CPD
Online identity
Digital literacy
Communities (of practice) in HE
(in the event, 2 have run)
Cover the topics
Exploring the potential of
Synchronous
Distributed
Collaboration
11.
12. Topics are challenging
The environment is challenging
There is an interaction between the
environment and the topics
13. Might identity, literacy and community be
threshold concepts in educational development?
Does the Trojan mouse effect persist in any new
learning environment?
Any novel medium with or through which learning,
is done serves to foreground not the medium but
the meaning of learning
i,e, discussions about e-learning are really
discussions about learning
14. The environment
Elluminate …. But no more!
Brookes Blogs
The learning design
The topics
Evaluation
The questions
15. New breed of collaboration tools allowing people to
be simultaneously present in an desk-top computing
environment based on a classroom metaphor
2-way voice & video communication
Text chat
Graphics
A “White Board” on which “Slides” can be displayed
Presenters
Participants
Icon-tools such as “hand-raising”, emoticons (smiley faces),
polling
16.
17. Teaching events
Meetings
Distributed/distant co-presence at face-to-face
events (conference streams)
Benefits
Reduced travel – time, cost and carbon saving (?)
Recorded for replay
Distributed groups
18. Technical
The Internet is not like the movies: Lag
Hardware/software compatibility
Institutional firewalls
Cultural
Literacy: how to use the $%^&*! thing
Community:
Interruptability, participation, open plan spaces
Identity: representation of the self
Expectation management
It is different from both face-to-face and “traditional” on-line
discussion-based distributed elearning
21. Some considered the online interface ‘much richer than face-
to-face sessions’, found the different channels useful.
‘Interesting and productive environment’ effectively replicated a
face to face workshop/seminar in terms of medium and
activities.
Useful learning medium once acclimatised
Breakout groups worked well for engagement
Interesting conceptual stuff from the panel discussion
Excellent questions raised
The moderators and the participants with different views of a
very interesting topic, with moderation that made sure that all
was somehow held together
The experience of taking part in online learning in this format.
The (useful) flow of presentation through to reflection and
discussion
22. A participant who thought the familiarisation session went well
referred to the session itself as ‘fraught with problems’.
Participant who came late took the first 30 minutes to catch
up, experienced technical difficulties particularly with sound at
first and did not manage to get a webcam working at all.
Communication a challenge in the medium.
Sound problems
Difficulty with giving attention to a presentation for full 20
minutes
Bandwidth broke up audio in breakout groups
Attending an online workshop from the work place different
from attending a face to face events as the presence of the
web, msn, email and telephone is distraction affecting
concentration; needs discipline
23. Might identity, literacy and community be
threshold concepts in educational development?
Does the Trojan mouse effect persist in any new
learning environment?
Any novel medium with or through which learning,
is done serves to foreground not the medium but
the meaning of learning
i.e. discussions about e-learning are really
discussions about learning
