Designing Effective E-learning Environments: Community is as Important as Content Paul Resta Learning Technology Cente

1. Designing EffectiveE-learning Environments: Community is as Important as ContentPaul RestaLearning Technology CenterThe University of Texas at Austin

2. E-Learning Trends Higher education trends: Online degree programs and courses are ubiquitous and growing 2.4M students in Fall 2004 3.2M students in Fall 2005 Myriad of new tools used in instruction Wikis, blogs, MUVE�s (e.g., Second Life),free desktop videoconferencing Podcasting - cumulative sales approaching $100 million Sloan Consortium. (2006). Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States.

3. Broadcast model still dominant

4. Old Wine in New Bottles Much of what we see in e-learning is a porting over of broadcast model to the Web �Shovelware� Taking existing lectures or written text and simply putting it on the Web and calling it an online course

5. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (Book also available online) http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ Growing knowledge-base of how people learn

6. Transitioning to new learning environments

7. A rich learning environment is: (Wilson, 1996)

8. Moving toward Authentic Learning

9. Design Approach(Backward Design) Identify desired outcomes and results Determine what constitutes acceptable evidence of outcomes Plan instructional strategies and learning experiences to achieve outcomes Wiggins and McTighe (2003)

10. Know the Learner Generational Groups Matures (pre-1946) Baby Boomers (1946-1964) Generation X (1965-1980) Millennials (1981-1994) Neo Millenials (1995 -) Wendover (2002)

11. Learner Motivation The CANE model (commitment and necessary effort) based on: Personal agency (Can I do this and what are the barriers?) Emotion (Do I feel like doing this?) Task value (Will this do me any good? Is this important to me?)

12. Design of Online Learning High cost does not mean high quality learning Effective e-learning environments can be developed within your time and resource constraints Some examples of e-learning design with limited resources

14. Authentic Assessment Group Accountability

16. (Tech leadership course problem solving video) Authentic Context

17. Analyze student performance data Conduct hardware Inventory Authentic Tasks - Examples

19. Authentic Tools

20. Authentic Tools

22. process through which learners work together to accomplish specific learning tasks or projects using networks and software tools Online Collaborative Learning

23. Electronic Proximity represents the new work space Electronic collaboration is changing the ways that work is accomplished Research on collaborative vs. competitive and individualistic learning environments Johnson and Johnson (2002) Why Collaboration inE-learning Environments?

24. Collaboration fosters dialogue and discourse makes tacit knowledge public Provides safe environment for intellectual conflict Multiple perspectives moves learners to deeper levels of understanding Community is as Important as Content

25. Building and Supporting Learning Teams Learning about each other Social presence and connection Students develop rules and norms Sense of community

26. Individual accountability Peer and Self Assessment

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29. Summary High cost does not mean high quality Apply knowledge of how people learn to create more effective learning environments

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