Presentation at CNaPPES 2014 Porto - Congresso Nacional de Práticas Pedagógicas no Ensino Superior (english version)

1. TEACHING A "CROWD"… WITH A COMMUNITY OF
INQUIRY MODEL?
João Paz
Instituto Piaget/Universidade Aberta
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2. Topics
 Context
 Problem
 Pedagogical Practice
 Results
 Balance
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3. Context
Higher Education Institution with 5 years of experience in Online Education
LMS Moodle
Curricular Unit online transversal to various courses (80% → 50% online)
40 h – 2 ECTS, 1º cycle of studies
Virtual community learning model
One Teacher >200 estudantes
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4. e-learning paradigms
SOCIAL-CONSTRUTIVIST
 Interacção student-student
 Learning community
 Facilitation
BEHAV-COGNITIVIST
 Self-learning
 Interaction with
contents (and
teacher)
 Automatization
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5. Problem
One
Teacher
푄푢푎푙푖푡푦 =
>200
students
Community
Learning
Model
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.x.y.z… ?
Higher
Education
Institution with
5 years of
experience in
Online
Education
Curricular Unit
online
transversal to
various courses
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6. Difficulties
 Context: student profile little experience in DE
 Model scalability issues with implications in
 Community building
 Collaborative interactions
 Teaching Presence quality
 Teacher Workload
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7. Pedagogical Practice
 Main Objectives
 Develop conceptualization, problematization and
argumentation competencies
 Audience
 Students of a 3rd year Curricular Unit from various
courses in a single virtual class
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8. Pedagogical Practice
 Strategies
 Small groups for production activities and forum debates
 Online sharing and debate of accomplished produtcs of activities
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9. Pedagogical Practice
 Online Activities
 Quizzes
 Debates in discussion forum bases on texto or multimédia
contents
 Group work (with sharing, presentation and discussion)
 Mindmaps building (with sharing, presentation and
discussion)
Evaluation (50% online activities - 50% final test)
 Peer and teacher formative assessment
 Teacher qualitative evaluation of online activities on the
go
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10. Results of Community of Inquiry survey
3,5 3,9
4,2
Response rate: 25%
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11. Results
Teaching Presence online
 Strong Design and Organization
 Limitiations in Facilitation of discourse and Direct
Instruction
 Some Learning Regulation support arising from the
Community
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12. Balance
 Reasonable level of overall quality
 Interesting values of Teaching Presence perception from
students
 Still high teacher workload
 Diffculties in effective moderation of discussion fóruns by
the teacher
 Uneven Student collaborative profile
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13. THANK YOU!
http://about.me/joaopaz
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