Wytze Koopal

info@koopaladvies.nl

www.koopaladvies.nl

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Better understanding of blended learning

Different sorts of tools for blended learning

Make informed choice between possible scenario’s for blended learning

Pitfalls and best practices

Exercise with tool(s) yourself

Please don’t hesitate if you have any questions

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1. What is blended learning?

2. Exercise 1: what will you and your organisation gain from blended learning?

3. Software categories for blended learning and e-learning

4. Examples and demonstrations of tools Coffee break?

5. Exercise 2: create your own online learning materials

6. Exercise 3: find, evaluate and build upon existing materials

7. Create or reuse?

8. Trends and future developments

9. Wrapup

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Blend of formal and informal learning

Blend of workplace and classroom

Blend of instructionally structured resources and resources created for a purpose other than learning

Blend of interaction with others in the same or different locations

Blend of digital and physical locations

More blends?

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Collis, B., & Moonen, J. (2005). An on-going journey: Technology as a learning workbench.

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. http://www.BettyCollisJefMoonen.nl

“Choosing the best blend for a learning situation is a new skill. Designing a Web environment to integrate the components of the blend is also a new skill.“

This implies that role of trainer changes: ◦ Less face-to-face instructional activities

◦ More ICT savvy

◦ Broader repertoire of learning activities

◦ Community manager

◦ Moderator

◦ Facilitator

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Collis, B., & Moonen, J. (2005). An on-going journey: Technology as a learning workbench.

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. http://www.BettyCollisJefMoonen.nl

“Informal learning is the unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu way people learn to do their jobs.” Jay Cross (2010)

Video explanation by Jay Cross himself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlETGJ0mnno

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http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/informal-learning-an-interview-with-jay-cross

This is a matter of transfer: ◦ will you still remember what is told in the classroom

weeks ago?

◦ will you be able to execute a task that you trained last month?

◦ how realistic can a classroom training be anyway?

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Collis B., & Moonen J. (2001). Flexible learning in a digital world (pp.86-

109). London: Kogan Page.

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Some suggestions: ◦ Supply your participants with key

resources to study (online)

◦ Supply an e-assessment

◦ Give them opportunity to provide their specific questions (or learning goals)

◦ Let them write an essay (e.g. weblog)

◦ Record (parts of) your lecture through video and make this available

◦ Let them submit materials online

◦ Build connections by providing contact possibilities (social networking)

◦ Any other suggestions?

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Some suggestions: ◦ Beware of too much lecturing

◦ Create and provide exercises and activities

◦ Use peer feedback

◦ Design an follow-up activity

◦ Any other suggestions?

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Some suggestions: ◦ Check out the results of the

follow-up activity

◦ Provide exercises, quizzes and activities

◦ Let them build their professional network online

◦ Any other suggestions?

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Satish Patel (2009): https://vimeo.com/6309098

Flexibility in ◦ time

◦ location

◦ trainer

◦ but mostly dependent on internet-connection

Creative use of ◦ interactivity / learning activities

◦ audio and/or video

More geared to individual learner

More active engagement expected of learner

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(1) "The delivery of formal and informal learning and training activities, processes, communities and events via means of all electronic media like Internet, intranet, extranet, CD-ROM, video tape, DVD, TV, cell phones, smartphones et cetera."

(2) “E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching. (..) The term will still most likely be utilized to reference out-of-classroom and in-classroom educational experiences via technology, even as advances continue in regard to devices and curriculum.”

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(1) Marcel de Leeuwe: http://www.leerbeleving.nl/wbts/1/what_is_elearning.html

(2) Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning

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Collis B., & Moonen J. (2001). Flexible learning in a digital world (pp.

86-109). London: Kogan Page.

Before During After

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Questions to ask yourself:

What can and should be learned invidually?

How and when can I use peer feedback / review?

What are exactly the training needs of the learners; which skills should they acquire?

How can i deliver (digital) content before and after?

Jane Hart : http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2011/10/28/you-cant-manage-informal-learning-only-use-of-informal-media

Hans de Zwart: http://www.slideshare.net/hansdezwart/7-problemen-en-9-vragen-voor-opleiders

Marcel de Leeuwe: http://www.slideshare.net/marceldeleeuwe/fontysavond-over-elearning-tools-op-14-feb-2012

Wilfred Rubens: http://www.te-learning.nl/developrubens.pdf

Open Universiteit: http://portal.ou.nl/nl/web/leren-met-ICT

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What is your analysis right now?

19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis

Write down (10 minutes) ◦ Strengths, or greatest (potential)

benefits ◦ Weaknesses, or pitfalls ◦ Opportunities, external chances to improve ◦ Threats, external elements that could cause trouble

Discussion (15 minutes)

We will get back at unanswered issues later in this workshop

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What kind of software tools are out there?

Basically a few types: ◦ Learning Management (administration & delivery &

access)

◦ Authoring (production)

◦ Networking (connect, share, re-use, trust)

◦ Repositories (sharing, distribution)

◦ Secondary stuff, such as screen recording, webinars, etc

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Slighty different systems ◦ Blackboard, N@tschool,

Saba, Docent, Moodle -> Sakai, It’s Learning,

Very similar in functionality ◦ courses ◦ classes and groups ◦ assignments ◦ schedules ◦ grading ◦ access to content ◦ some stuff that we categorize

hereafter

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning

Authoring Lectora, EasyGenerator, Articulate, eXe

Graphical Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp

Audio Audacity

Animation Flash, Fireworks

Simulation Captivate, OnDemand

Video YouTube, Vimeo, Pinnacle, iMovie

Screencapturing SnagIt, Jing, Screenr

Assessment Questionmark, HotPotatoes

Simulation Viewletbuilder

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OCW Consortium

Connexions

Merlot

Wikiversity

Wikibooks

Khan Academy

OER Commons

(NL) WikiWijs

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LinkedIn : closed groups

Twitter e.g. follow thought leaders

Facebook : create your own presence

Elgg : create your own (closed) community, with subgroups etc

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Communication ◦ Chat [ICQ, MSN, Skype]

◦ Apps and screen sharing [PC Anywhere, Skype]

◦ Videoconferencing [Live Messenger, Skype]

Content and knowledge management ◦ Weblog [Wordpress, Blogger]

◦ Wiki [DokuWiki, MediaWiki]

Visualisatie tools ◦ MindMapping [MindManager, FreeMind]

◦ Flowcharts [Visio]

Virtual Classrooms [DimDim, Adobe Connect, Skype]

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http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

http://www.ocwsearch.com/

http://www.KHANAcademy.org

http://cnx.org/

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://www.merlot.org

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com

http://en.wikibooks.org

http://en.wikiversity.org

http://www.p2pu.org/en

Social network, eg. Elgg

Articulate Studio

eXe Learning

HotPotatoes

Challenge: we’d like to exchange digital learning materials

The solution: ◦ we agree on a certain format

So we have ◦ Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)

◦ IMS Content Packaging (IMS CP)

◦ IMS Question and Test Operability (IMS QTI)

◦ http://www.imsglobal.org/specifications.html

◦ EPUB (digital books)

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Challenge: we’d like to exchange digital learning materials

The problem: ◦ we may not freely use or rewrite it

Solution ◦ not Copyright, but Copyleft

◦ Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org)

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eXe Learning

Hot Potatoes

Articulate Studio

(perhaps other tools?)

Take 30-40 minutes

See instructions in handout

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How did it go?

Any changes in your SWOT analysis?

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Take 20 – 30 minutes

See instructions in handout

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How did it go?

Any changes in your SWOT analysis?

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What is your opinion?

Have you read the license conditions?

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Informal

Producing

Remixing

Is personal: finding the right teacher, the right content, the right time (learning network)

Always on: mobile, ubiquitous

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http://www.slideshare.net/wrubens/trends-elearning2011

Learning in networks, social learning

Peter Sloep e.a.: http://celstec.org/content/leernetwerken

Jane Hart: http://www.slideshare.net/janehart/the-future-of-elearning-is-social-learnng

Curriculum and instructional design

Marius van Bruggen: http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~stud099/Marius/Home01.html

Van Merrienboer, Jeroen & Kirschner, Paul A. (2008, September 9). Four Component Instructional Design (4C/ID). SciTopics. Retrieved February 28, 2012, from http://www.scitopics.com/Four_Component_Instructional_Design_4C_ID.html

David Merrill: https://www.indiana.edu/~tedfrick/aect2002/firstprinciplesbymerrill.pdf

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Instructional_Technology/Models_of_Instructional_Design

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