On-line Teaching - An On-line Seminar
An Introduction
These WWW pages are designed as an on-line seminar on the topic of
on-line teaching and learning. The aim of the seminar is to increase
participants awareness of the possibilities and the potential problems
in online learning environments. While it is oriented towards higher
education, much of the material and many of the issues are relevant
across a wider spectrum. The seminar is designed to take a minimum of
3 hours of time from each participant.
There are resources available that will not be used in the 3 hour
time limit, but you are of course welcome to explore these using
additional time if you wish.
Note:
Contributions to the discussion may be used in further
iterations of this seminar, or in publications related to it. If you
do not wish material you contribute to discussion, to be so used,
please notify us.
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Task | The Process
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The Tasks
The task is to work with a partner to identify some examples of
advantageous uses of on-line learning environments, and some examples
of potential problems, and to report your findings to your colleagues
via an on-line discussion board.
You won't be able to do all the activities available on the site
within a 3 hour
time frame, but they are available if you wish to spend additional time.
The seminar site provides the opportunity to:
- Look at some on-line courses,
- Read some articles about on-line teaching and learning,
- Create a skeleton for your own on-line course, using a format
similar to this seminar
- Locate some resources for future use in on-line course
development.
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Participate in on-line discussion with colleagues.
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Process | Resources
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Discussion
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The
Process
Following is a suggested sequence of steps for your participation in
this seminar:
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TO BE DONE BY MONDAY EVENING (0.5 hours)
Introduce yourself via the discussion board. To do this you need to
do the following steps. Read them all through first (or print them
out), as this page will disappear when you go to the discussion board.
(First read these general discussion board
instructions about how the discussion board works. Then use your
Netscape "Back" button, to come back to this page.)
- Go to the discussion board,
logging in with login guest, and password guest.
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Select "add user" and add yourself as a user. You will choose a login
and a password, which you will need to use each time you log in to the
discussion board. Make sure to also fill in your name, and your email
address.
- Log in again with your new login. Choose the topic
"introductions" from the pull down menu under "Read a Topic", click
read, and then add an introduction of yourself. If you already have a
partner for the seminar, please include the information as to who your
partner is.
- Form a pair with another participant - you can click on their
name in their introduction posting, to send them email. Post
information as to who you are working with, when you have formed your
pair.
- When you log out from the discussion board, you will come back to
this page.
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TO BE DONE BY THURSDAY EVENING (1.5-2 hours)
Discover possibilities which seem educationally exciting, as well as things
which could cause problems, and post a joint summary with your partner
to the discussion board.
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Take a look at some existing courses
identifying concrete examples of things which appear advantageous for
the learner and/or the teacher, as well as examples of things that
could create problems or be an issue for the teacher/learner.
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Work with your partner via email, to put together your joint summary
of some possibilities and problems which you have discovered, with the
references to the examples.
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One of you start a new topic on the discussion board (select
"start new topic") and post your joint summary.
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Read other groups postings on the discussion
board, and if you wish make a response to them.
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TO BE DONE BY SUNDAY EVENING (0.5 hours)
Reflect on what aspects of this on-line experience have worked well
for you, and what has been problematic. Post to the discussion
board, under topic "Final reflections..."
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Fill out our online evaluation form.
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Example courses
Example Courses |
Course creation
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Discussion
Course Creation
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Here
are instructions to help you develop an outline for a course,
organised similarly to this one.
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If you know how to design www pages, or want to explore further some
tools for www page development, here are a few useful resources:
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You may also like to think about a completely different design, using
this course
evaluation form
to give you some ideas of the different dimensions on which an online
course can be judged.
Example Courses |
Course creation
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Discussion
Articles and
points of view
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Teaching and Learning on the World Wide Web by Shirley Alexander,
Institute for Interactive Multimedia, University of
Technology, Sydney. Presented at
AusWeb95.
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The WWW - Opportunities for an Integrated Approach to Teaching and
Research in Science by
Riddle, Matthew D., Nott, Michael W., Pearce, Jon M., Science
Multimedia Teaching Unit, University of Melbourne. Presented at
AusWeb95.
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Evaluating IMM: Issues for researchers, by Shauna McKenna, Open
Learning Institute.
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Multimedia
and the Learner's Experience of Narrative. Laurillard, D.M.,
Keynote speech for Ed-Media, Boston 1996 - Submitted to Computers and
Education.
Further
papers from Laurillard and others in the MENO IET group.
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Evaluationg New Technology in Learning and Teaching: A summary of
recent research at the Institute of Educational Technology, by Robin
Goodfellow and Agnes Kukulska-Hulme.
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Converting Classroom Courses:
A Template for Converting Classroom Courses to Distributed,
Asynchronous Courses, by Lowell H. Roberts, IAT.
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Enhancing Instruction with Multimedia,
by James S. Noblitt, Ph.D.
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Implications of on-line learning for instructional technology,
William H. Geoghegan, IBM Academic Consulting.
This paper examines the broad range of factors that underlie the
failure of instructional technology to penetrate the curriculum more
widely than it has.
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Multimedia -
shaping the future of education, by Prof. Johannes Cronje,
University of Pretoria. Short paper on the interaction of computers
and learning processes.
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Interactive Internet: Using the Internet to facilitate co-operative
distance learning,
by Prof. Johannes Cronje, University of Pretoria. Explores
possibilities and limitations of the internet in a pilot study.
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