This document discusses balancing self-paced and connected learning. It notes that while self-paced learning provides flexibility, it can lack community and collaboration. Examples of learning activities that allow self-paced work while maintaining connections include collaborative projects and performance tasks assessed by teachers. The document also presents tools like digital dashboards and planning tools that can help manage self-paced learning. It concludes that demand for flexibility combined with expectations for communication require new approaches that integrate self-paced and connected learning.

1. Self-paced, yet connected learning:
How to have your cake and eat it too
Samantha Slade et Yves Otis
BCedOnline
April 2004

2. 1. The challenge
2. Examples of learning activities
3. Examples of performance tasks
4. Tools to manage self-paced learning and learners
5.The future

3. 1. The challenge

4. Group-paced Self-paced
learning learning
+ Community, + Freedom and
collaboration, + flexibility
communication (time, pace)
- Constraints in time - Lacking community,
and pace (dependancy collaboration and
on teacher and group) communication
1. The challenge

5. 2. Examples of learning activities

6. 2. Examples of learning activities

7. Collaboration Community Alone
Communication
Examples
- allow self-paced learning while feeling part of a
learning community
- require no teacher intervention
Need to find ways of integrating self paced
collaborative learning activities
2. Examples of learning activities

8. 3. Examples of performance tasks

9. Collaboration Community Alone
Communication
Teacher
Work + + Publishing
intervention
Teacher
Work + Publishing +
intervention
How to create self-paced collaborative performance tasks ?
3. Examples of performance tasks

10. 4. Tools to manage self-paced learning and learners

11. A digital
dashboard to
keep track of all
unpaced online
activities
4. Tools to manage self-paced learning and learners

12. A digital dashboard to display recent activity in a
course (progression in content, overview of comments)
4. Tools to manage self-paced learning and learners

13. 4. Tools to manage self-paced learning and learners

14. A dynamic planning tool to facilitate management
of learning
4. Tools to manage self-paced learning and learners

15. 5. The future

16. 1. Demand for self paced learning
2. Expectation for communication and collaboration
Problem-based learning
Eportfolios
Self-directed learning
Collective knowledge
Authentic audience
Going global
Therefore the need for self paced connected learning
5.The future

17. closed
obliged
Most online Some online
learning learning
group learner
paced paced
Some online ex. fanfiction.net
learning evaluation?
open
choices
5.The future

18. Samantha Slade
R & D advisor
Yves Otis
IT advisor