Post on 03-Jan-2016
The online TRIO Project: Learning and Teaching Experiences with Web2.0
Rita Kop and Emrys Jenkins
F.G.Kop@Swansea.ac.uk – E.R.Jenkins@Swansea.ac.uk
Key themesKey themes
Background to the project
Background to the project
Educational aims
Educational aims
and objectives
and objectives
How did we think we could
How did we think we could
achieve these?
achieve these?
The Student experienceThe Student experience
The tutor e
xperience
The tutor e
xperience
F.G.Kop@Swansea.ac.uk – E.R.Jenkins@Swansea.ac.uk
Learning Environment – Learning PlaceLearning Environment – Learning Place
Rita Kop and Emrys Jenkins
The new ‘places’?The new ‘places’?
f.g.kop@swansea.ac.uk and E.R.Jenkins@Swansea.ac.uk
Learning technology and ‘Connectivism’Learning technology and ‘Connectivism’
Personal Learning Environment
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Groups – Networks – CollectivesGroups – Networks – CollectivesPresencePresence
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Communication in online learningCommunication in online learning‘Communication is the most important aspect in making people what they are: ‘mind, consciousness, thinking, subjectivity, meaning, intelligence, language, rationality, logic, inference and truth- all of these things that philosophers over the centuries have considered to be part of the natural ‘make-up’ of human beings – only come into existence through and as result of communication’.
Biesta, analysing Dewey(2006, p17-19)
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‘Technology by definition is anything that does not yet work’
Doug Adams
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About designAbout design
‘Our “audiences” aren’t audiences at all, but rather creators, and our job is not to lecture but to enable. With this new approach comes not only design challenges but the joy of reconnecting people to each other’.
Michael Wesch, as discussed on Nathan Shedroff’s website, 2009
Emrys Jenkins and Rita Kop
The TRIO ProjectThe TRIO Project
Rita Kop and Emrys Jenkins
‘It is like talking to other people about things; it gives that possibility but if you just want to read the material and back up yourself somewhere else you can do that as well. It leaves a balance in your control which is a good thing.’
‘It would be easier for me to handle thingsface to face because that is where I am coming from and that is what I have doneall my life, but I think we are in a differentworld now and the new learners coming through should learn to learn this way.’
‘About critical thinking: If I wasn’t doing this module, with the tutor, would I even be thinking about critical thinking? Or would I just do what I have done before: ‘I think this is right’ without looking at it more laterally?’
The student voices
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Chat sessionChat session
It’s main function was to get people to engage socially, really, virtually socially. But experiencing that … I mean, I typed the words into the board and I was crying laughing. And if you’d said, ‘Oh you’ll be laughing doing that’ I’d have said ‘Don’t be ridiculous’. There’s something about it that’s really … Well, you’ve got to experience it I suppose.
S1: my brain feels like the M25 at rush hour-this is brilliant! So many thoughts and adrenaline flowing – woo hoo!
Rita Kop and Emrys Jenkins
A glimpse of one of the videos
• Engaging learning placeand
•Tutor presence
•Facilitated development of learner
autonomy
• The use of video, wikis, chat and personal dialogue in the reflective journal
created
• A stimulating context for learningEmrys Jenkins – Rita Kop
ConclusionsConclusions
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