E-LEARNING WORKSHOP

CHARLES LWANGA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

PRACTICAL EXAMPLES AND EXPERIENCING E-LEARNING

January, 2008By Leonie Meijerink, VVOB

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Content Overview2

Practice and experience e-learning

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What will this look like for students in 2012?

What is e-learning?4

Basics of e-learning5

e.g. Moodle

From: Delft University of Technology, Edutec

What learning is about….

Learning is an active mental process of the learner

Learning is reflection with the ‘inner’ self and through communication with others

Learning is transforming information to meaningful knowledge

Thus….e-learning should have all of this!

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From: Delft University of Technology, Edutec

What teaching is about…

Teaching is enabling students to be active, communicate, thus construct knowledge.

Teaching is enabling students to experience, contribute, and reflect.

Thus, in e-learning the tutor/lecturer should enable and encourage all of this!

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From: Delft University of Technology, Edutec

‘Global History of e-learning’

E-learning as ‘love baby’: high expectations Cost reduction and greater accessibility. A lot of money invested in technology.

Critics arise: Costs higher than expected, ICT infrastructure difficult, and quality of modules not sufficient.

E-learning 2.0 (Downes, 2005): more focus on ‘blended learning’, ‘digital didactics’, and reducing costs through standardization. High level of instructional design and effective management of resources.

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From: Rubens W. , e-learning 2.0, e-learning congres, 2007

Conclusion current situation of e-learning globallyE-learning has become

more flexibleMore personal

More social

How flexible, personal and social will e-learning at NISTCOL be?

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Why, what and how e-learning? ….A reminder Mindmap Why: Can you rank in order of importance

the balance of reasons? How: Look at the proposed model for

gradually starting e-learning. Do you think it will work and where would you be?

What do you think CLCE should focus on? Who do you think this should be for?

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E-READY?

What are the things you need to learn before being able to use e-learning? When are you e-ready?

If we are not ‘yet’ e-ready, how can we still move forward?

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Encouraged to use technology e.g. typing up course notes and lesson plans and communicating via email

All College staff (x 40)

Active enhancement of ICT skills i.e. touch-typing practice, use of iSchool website

IT literate staff (x 30)

‘Moodlize’ course materials, select students to try e-learning

E-Learning Pilot Team (x 8)

Online assessment

Web Logs

Discussion Fora

E-learning format

SMS student support

Constructivist methods

Web-based materials

2 of the Pilot Team and some of their students would try out

each ‘theme’

Profiles of fictional students

In your group choose a fictional student from the following profiles, who will be following distance learning through e-learning at Charles Lwanga in about 3-5 years from now.

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Profiles of students14

•Lweendo is a teacher of Grade 7 at a school in Lusaka. He is 25 years old.•He has been teaching for 2 years now. •Lweendo’s hobby is to learn how to use the computer.

•Nchimunya is a 26 year old teacher of G2 in an urban school in Choma.•Nchimunya has been teaching for 1 year now.•Nchimunya would like to move to higher grades so she can teach about science, agriculture and health. These are the topics she is very knowledgeable in. •Nchimunya knows how to e-mail

•Mutinta is a 30 year old teacher of Grade1 in a rural school in Chilala•Mutinta has been teaching for 5 years. Mutitnta loves to use active methods in her class, so she likes to go out in the field with the children in her class. •Mutinta has never used a computer

• Zulu is a 32 year old teacher in a school for blind children in Ngabo •He has been teaching for 3 years.•Zulu is visually impaired.•Zulu can use braille, which is also used by the children in his class and is interested to learn how to use the computer for visually impaired.

Profiles of students (2)15

• Choolwe is a 26 year old teacher at a rural school in Mapanza•Choolwe loves sports and is a good baseball player•Choolwe has never used a computer and prefers to be outside.

• Mweene is a 45 year old teacher in G9 at a school in Chisekesi• Mweene has been teaching grade 9 for 1 year but has not got a diploma yet. She is very interested to teach her pupils about the use of technology, but also in all kinds of other creative subjects.

Or if you prefer: Come up with your own profile of a representative student at CL

• Francis is a 35 year old teacher at a school in Mazabuka•Francis is very intelligent and knowledgable in social studies.•Francis prefers to use traditional rote learning in his class, as he likes his class to be very quiet.

Experience online learning at OU

Go to the website: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

1. Which 3 things of the homepage appeal to you? Have a look and explore what’s under those buttons.

2. Name three things that make this website ‘interactive’.

3. Choose the module on ‘creating open education resource materials’: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3636 . Take 5 minutes looking at the module. Identify what is done differently compared to a ‘normal’ module.

4. Write a short story about how your fictional student will experience working in a distance module a few years from now.

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Practice: Blogs

Read the story ‘Sharing your personal views’ about blogging.

Choose two of these blogs and open them: http://icollaborate.blogspot.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/communicate/blog/ http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ or http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/football/

Do the activity on the sheet: Methods of e-learning: Activity

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Practice: discussion forums

Read about forums in the following link: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/view.php?id=342847&direct=1

Have a look at some examples of a discussion forum/ message boards: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mble/F2712586 or http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=732

Do the activity on the sheet: Methods of e-learning: Activity

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Practice:Wikis

The largest wiki in the world is the wikipedia, have a look at it:

www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org In your group, write down a procedure of adding

content to the Wikipedia. Choose what to change (depending on what the other

groups have already done): (a) write a brief history of CLCE and save (‘upload’) the content; (b) edit the list of basic schools by adding 10 names of schools in Southern province; (c) edit the list of secondary/high schools in Zambia; (d) edit the list of colleges in Zambia (e) edit the list of universities in Zambia.

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Wikis Cont’d …

Have a look at some other examples of wikis: http://itrainers.pbwiki.com http://pbwiki.com

Do the activity on the sheet: Methods of e-learning: Activity

Practice: Quiz

Have a look at the two quizzes below : 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/

learningenglish/quizzes/football/shootout.shtml2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/

worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1619_advent

Do the activities on the sheet: Methods of e-learning: Activity

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Activities to go with ‘practice’1. Write down in the activity sheet which method

of e-learning is used.

2. Write down in the table of the activity sheet with which face-to-face methods you can compare these methods.

3. For each method think of the advantages of both the face-to-face and the e-learning version and write this down in the table.

4. Write a short story on what this could look like in practice for your fictional student.

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Student Support Services (1) E-Coaching, e-mentoring, : Read the

websites below: http://www.my-ecoach.com/coaching/

program.html http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/E-coaching and think how you could implement a simple

form of e-coaching or mentoring at the college between staff members.

Write in a story how e-coaching could be supporting your fictional student in 2012

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Student Support Services (2) Use of sms-services: Go through the

presentation of Africonnect and identify three situations for which sms could be a helpful method to support Charles Lwanga.

Describe in a story what this could look like for your fictional student in 3 years from now.

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Experience and learn about: Moodle

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- Go to the Moodle website of Charles Lwanga , using the login: .....

- Look at the page: where would you click on first?

- Click on courses

- Click on ‘turn editing on’

- Now look at the drop down menu’s you see in the screen. Which options do you have?

- Feel free to test and play with some of these options

Experience and learn about Moodle Go through the moodle demonstration

course: http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=34 Can you identify which activity/activities in this

course will be relatively easy to implement? Read the article in your reader: Using a digital

learning environment for the first time: where do you start?

Write in a story how the Moodle environment at CLCE could look like for your fictional student in 2012.

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TIME LINE

Identify the most important steps that will need to be taken towards implementing e-learning in 2010. Draw a time line and indicate when these

steps will need to be taken.

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Plenary

Reading out of fictional student stories. Which are the two most useful things

you’ve learned and would be willing to try and implement in your education?

Which are the things you wish to learn more about? Discussion on use of e-coaching as a way to

professionalize on e-learning

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