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Web Pedagogies Week 9: Systems Approach

Explore the systems approach in distance education, including the findings of research conducted at DCE. Discover the impact of distance on instruction, communication, curriculum, and management. Gain insights into student and faculty perspectives and get recommendations based on the research findings.

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Web Pedagogies Week 9: Systems Approach

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  1. Web PedagogiesWeek 9: Systems Approach Distance Education

  2. Schedule • Distance Education • The systems approach of Moore • Part of education’s commodification? • Transactional Distance (briefly) • Distance Ed at DCE • Conducting research on distance • The findings • What would you recommend? • Break • Lab

  3. Sources Design Interaction Delivery A systems approach to distance Learning Environment Instructional design Media Program Evaluation Student needs Organization History Philosophy Print Audio/video Radio/TV Software Video conference Comp. networks Instructors Tutors Counselors Admin staff Other students Workplace Home Classroom Learning Cntr From Moore and Kearsley, Distance Education: A Systems View, Wadsworth Publishing Co, 1996, p.9.

  4. Distance education and systems • Interdependence of elements (common thread in systems approaches) • Changes in one component affect others • Such as? • Management change • Communications technology • Course content

  5. Distance education: the critique from the left • Deskilling • Breaking down into discrete steps is viewed as part of the problem • Race for profit via distance breaks down histories and philosophies • Is Distance ed ‘real’ education?

  6. Distance education and transactional distance • Distance ed is any separation of learners in time or space • Impt: what effect does this have on • Instruction • Teachers • Forms of communication and interaction • Curriculum • Management

  7. Transactional distance • Distance is that of understandings and perceptions • Not geographical but pedagogical • Overcoming that is a mater of design and interaction procedures • Separation significant when need special organizational and teaching behaviors

  8. Distance Education at DCE • Why we undertook the research • What did we want to find out • What did the prior research tell us? • Not starting from scratch: Illinois report • Learning styles research • Building the instruments • Why different approaches to faculty and students? (Quantitative vs qualitative)

  9. The Findings: students • Hybrid courses and hybrid students • Learning styles matter • Computer Science courses vs. the rest • Can’t be the same as the pure in class version.

  10. The Findings: faculty • See advantages and disadvantages • Different teaching styles • Creating community • Jumping in too soon can cause problems

  11. The Recommendations • What suggestions would you have if given these findings?

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