Syllabus 2004 San Francisco1 Personal Information Technologies Stuart J. Glogoff, Adjunct Professor...

Syllabus 2004 San Francisco 1

Personal Information Technologies

Stuart J. Glogoff, Adjunct Professor School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona

Instructional Models for Using Weblogs In E-Learning: A Case Study From a

Virtual and Hybrid Course


Presentation Overview

Blogging at the University of Arizona Blogging and instructional techniques for

e-learning Virtual experience (Glogoff) Hybrid experience (Betts)


Instructional Techniques for E-learning

Ruth Colvin-Clark and Richard E. Mayer identified three instructional techniques for e-learning in their 2003 book e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning

1. Receptive: information acquisition

2. Directive: response strengthening

3. Guided Discovery: knowledge construction


IRLS613 Decision Making for Information Professionals

Goal: students develop an understanding of technology in order to make informed decisions related to the purchase or use of information systems

Taught virtually summer 2003 (and again this summer)

~ thirty students dispersed across the North America Students also used a course management system,

chat room, threaded discussion forum, Web, online surveys


Technology News Blog Students made direct observations re: what they

learned about technology Provided summaries of articles along with links to the

full articles, and posted whatever seemed relevant to their discipline or personal interests

Instructor and students provided feedback via the comments feature


IRLS613 Intended for postings that could be helpful to

students about using the course's different systems and resources

Evolved into a blog where students posted entries about topics of interest to them

An example of a virtual community in practice? Changed from my initial purpose -- came from the students


Survey Results -- Question 1

The Web logs in this course were the

first Web logs I have ever used.

True 20 (95.24%)

False 1 (4.76%)



The Technology News Web log was a good way for me to learn more about technology.

True 19 (90.48%)

False 2 (9.52%)



I would like to continue using the Technology News Web log.

True 16 (76.19%)

False 5 (23.81%)



Since the course started, I joined at least one other Web log.

True 6 (28.57%)

False 15 (71.43%)



I plan to join at least one Web log in the next 6 months.

True 14 (70.00%)

False 6 (30.00%)


Survey Results – Open Comment

What I liked most about using the Web logs were ... Learning more about what was going on in the technology

industry. I liked reading about things I never even knew existed. I

enjoyed doing the research to find things to post about. I didn't like that comments to the posts were few and far between. None of my posts were ever commented on, which was a little disappointing.

It was new and interesting and cutting edge. I didn't know of them before this course.

The sense of community directed to a specific topic.


My Observations

Student participation was far below what I had anticipated or expected

I was disappointed compared to previous hybrid experience; too many lurked


My Observations

Community takes much longer to form in online teaching than in face-to-face context. In online it is much easier to be exclusive and allow non-participants to lurk at the edges without active community involvement.

Terry Anderson A Second Look at Learning Sciences, classrooms, and Technology: Issues of Implementation: Making It Work in the Real World Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education edited by Thomas M. Duffy and Jamie R. Kirkley, 2004


2004 Course Again virtual ~ thirty students Initial course survey revealed that most students

have not used a blog. Several who were in a different class last fall semester were asked to keep a blog about their class experience by the professor. Only one reported using it to any extent. Others commented that they may have used it once but had no comments or were “too busy” to use it

Each given a blog and each course module has blog assignments and required to comment on other blogs


2004 Course

Receptive: information acquisition

Go to InfoWorld's Special Report: Disruptive Technologies from January 2003. Read a number of the articles in this report and on your blog write about a way you might employ a technology at a library that provides a new service that has a "disruptive impact."


2004 CourseDirective: response strengthening

Blog assignment: If you have taken the Myers-Briggs in the past year or two, write about the results. I want you to reflect (and write) about how your personal styles has an impact on how you learn, process information, and interact with your professors and fellow students in an online environment. If you've not taken the Myers-Briggs or an equivalent, or if you just don't have the results handy, you can take the HUMANMETRICs Jung Typology Test.

My comment to one entry: The assignment includes this statement "reflect (and write) about how your personal styles has an impact on how you learn, process information, and interact with your professors and fellow students in an online environment.“ Please revisit this post and address the assignment. If you want to see an example of what I expect, read what [student name] posted.


2004 Course

Guided Discovery: knowledge construction

Blog assignment: Place yourself in a library or other organization where you play a major role in creating, managing and delivering information. Discuss the different types of content that your organization has been developing over the past five years and how you would bring order to it.


2004 Course

I am maintaining a blog called IRLS613 where I post answers to student questions, clarifications of teaching points, or information that I find relevant to the course

Students are reading entries and commenting Have set ground rules for the blogs – e.g., blogs are

not for personal use; I reserve the right to edit or delete any entries that are not written in a professional and courteous manner


Closing Comments

A key reason why blogs are so popular is that they enable people who have no Web publishing experience to publish to the Web

Relatively easy technology: eighth graders in Alaska took to it quickly

Affords students the opportunity to have their own place in virtual space

Requiring students to read other students’ entries and make meaningful comments promotes peer review


Course & Contact Information

www.elearn.arizona.edu/irls613 thales.ltc.arizona.edu/irls613 [email protected]

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