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How the Northernmost University uses Elluminate for Blended and Online Learning Associate Professor Mariann Solberg
WHAT is Elluminate Live?
• A collaborative web conference environment allowing synchronous communication and sharing• Audio/video-broadcast • Sharing documents & desktop • Interactive whiteboard • Transfer of control to participants possible • Chat • Recording of sessions
• Realtime classroom teaching online – on your own computer
What could it look like? - Geographical Information Systems in Public Service
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Department of clinical dentistry – guidance of 4.th year students in practice in 12 clinics
WHY webconference for teaching?
• Demography of Northern Norway: • Vast / Sparsely populated / Dispersed settlements
• Points to (partial or full) online education
• Pedagogy • ”Edification” / ”Bildung” – PARTICIPATION
• Practice in three dimensions:• Thinking with / Thinking against / Thinking on your own
(selbsdenken)
• Points to actual interaction between people
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Why did we select Elluminate?
• Pedagogy / Functionality: • Needed a tool for oral teaching, especially
language teaching • Needed to balance writing in online studies
• Elluminate - same or better functionality as in other web conference tools
• Fronter picked Elluminate – integrated solution, one entry-URL, one login-procedure
Elluminate Live – integrated in Fronter- asynchronous and synchronous
Diversity of usage
• Social meeting – creating a good learning environment
• Oral dialogue and discussion, spontaneous reflection and spontaneous correction from teacher
• Report on status of work
• Present and share texts, statistics, pictures etc.
• Respond to and evaluate work, teacher to students and between students
• Possible to record sessions
Our approach
• The classroom in Fronter is the teacher’s main point of contact with the students & the very foundation of the course
• Elluminate – utilized for the more advanced learning processes
Challenges of use
1. High threshold for use for average teacher and student
2. Demands on user’s equipment: quality head-set with microphone & web camera
3. Locations with unstable lines
4. Power plugs fall out
5. Sessions must be structured, & plan must be well communicated to students
How to meet the challenges
• (Somewhat) advanced digital competence of teachers & strong motivation an advantage • ”Don’t use it if you don’t mean it”
• Comprehensive courses (technology & pedagogy) for teachers needed
• Close follow-up from technicians needed for the first sessions• ”While believing we would be driving cadilack, we
discovered that we were driving the snow plough…”
When all challenges are met
• Spontaneous social interaction is made possible
• Users tend to forget that they are using the application
• Learners find the way of communicating interesting and fascinating in itself
Why will we continue and expand our use of Elluminate Live? Oral PARTICIPATION in online courses
- Effective form of learning
- Formative for the well edified, well built, well socialized University student
- Decisive for quality and legitimacy of online learning in University education
Plus: all the other various, foreseen – and unforeseen – ways of using it!
Bibliography
Gadamer, Hans Georg: Truth and Method, Crossroad, New York 1989
Kant, Immanuel: Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner Pluhar, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987
“Anthropology” in Anthropology, History, and Education, translated/edited by G. Zoller, R. Louden, M. Gregor and P. Guyer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
Rorty, Richard: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1979
Thank You!
Mariann SolbergU-vett, University of Tromsø9012 Tromsø Norway
E-mail: [email protected]: http://tinyurl.com/y9zj6n8Twitter: http://twitter.com/msolberg