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RETHINKING CONTENT DEVELOPMENT (All that glitters is not gold) Michael Coghlan December 2010
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RETHINKING CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
(All that glitters is not gold)
Michael CoghlanDecember 2010
THIAGI
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/297337761/
WHAT ABOUT
TONIGHT?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/297337761/
CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WITHOUT ANY CONTENT?
CONTENT or PROCESS?
V
DESTINATION or JOURNEY?
V
CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WHERE YOU CO-CREATE THE CONTENT AS YOU GO?
The Best Way to Learn How To Do Something
is to Teach It!
WHAT ABOUT
YOUTUBE?
Lecturer: “I’m amazed at the extent of videos relating directly to the topics I teach in Painting...it would be easy to use them in the classroom as a lot of our old teaching videos are on cassette and are now poor quality & outdated. “
And other user-
generated content?
Gathering Content Involves
• Browsing possible resources• Deciding which resources to use• Creating resources• Deciding where and how to use them• Assembling resources into a coherent body of
contentTHEN• You work on how they look
Gathering Content Involves
• Browsing possible resources• Deciding which resources to use• Creating resources• Deciding where and how to use them• Assembling resources into a coherent body of
contentTHEN• You work on how they look
Where does most of the
thinking take place?
Gathering Content Involves• Browsing possible resources• Deciding which resources to use• Creating resources• Deciding where and how to use them• Assembling resources into a coherent body of
content
THENYou work on how it looks
Most of the thinking takes
place here
THE UBIQUITOUS QUIZ
Skills of the VET Teacher/Trainer
Callan and Clayton: E-assessment and the AQTF: Bridging the divide between practitioners and auditors
● Many VET staff don't have a proper understanding of ASSESSMENT, let alone e-assessment!
● 90% of e-assessment is done via quizzes!!
QUIZZES
Cathy Moore:• Quizzes often test
whether or not you remember or understand what you read in the last 10 minutes
Open Content
Creative Commons Licensing
from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/
DOES FLASHY SPARKLING SOPHISTICATED LOOKING
CONTENT EQUAL GOOD
LEARNING DESIGN?(All that glitters is not gold)
Michael CoghlanDecember 2010
Employability Skills
• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology
DISCUSSION....
See http://rethinkingcontent.wikispaces.com/
QUIZZES
Alternative Type Quiz Questions Might....
..... ask you to get up from the computer to:• Check an OH and S issue in a workshop and report back
on it• Take a photo that satisfies set criteria, tag it, and upload
it to a database (identifying plants in Horticulture)• Speak to a fellow student about the best way to solve a
problem (Dealing with Difficult Customers; Hospitality)• Research (Net, library, people) the various ways people
have addressed a similar problem in the past (parents with dementia; Aged Care)
Alternative Type Quiz Questions might...
... ask you to get up from the computer to:• Telephone 2 suppliers and evaluate their
products/services and explain why you chose one supplier over the other (Building, Plumbing)
Leave the quiz and • look for suitable YouTube videos that could be
used for instruction; describe, tag, and bookmark. (any subject)
Employability Skills
• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology
WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING/ANSWERING?
SCENARIO
400 gigalitres of water per year have to be put back into the Murray River if it is to be a healthy, sustainable system. This will have social and economic impacts on all towns along the river. How do we do this? What questions does each town need to address in order to achieve this goal?
“The whole world has become curricularised.” (Pachler)
Image courtesy of Nancy White
YES IT ALL TAKES MORE TIME
Courtesy of Greg Whitby
Courtesy of Greg Whitby
Employability Skills
• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology
Where are the competent eLearning Practitioners?
Mitchell and Ward: ● A report on the National Survey of
Vocational Education and Training (VET) Practitioner (January, 2010)
● Elearning seen as part of an advanced skill set; less than 10% of VET lecturers see themselves in this category
