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Developing online materials

Developing online materials. eLearning. Stephen Bostock Advisor for Technology and Learning Staff Development and Training Centre s.j.bostock@keele.ac.uk. Modes of engagement with e-learning. Minimum presence online Web supported : (all) materials

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Developing online materials

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  1. Developing online materials eLearning Stephen Bostock Advisor for Technology and Learning Staff Development and Training Centre s.j.bostock@keele.ac.uk

  2. Modes of engagement with e-learning • Minimum presence online • Web supported: (all) materials • Significant enhancement with technology: student activities of several types • Wholly / largely online course (all the above)

  3. B. Web support: Materials - and for most modes Admin or teaching information: • Existing content dropped in • Office documents, pictures … • Other formats • Rich Text Format .rtf, Adobe .pdf • Web pages .htm or web sites • Composer, FrontPage, Dreamweaver • But not Word, Save As … Web Page • Accessibility – keep it simple!

  4. Online teaching-learning activities • Communication, discussion, support: • Email from and to students, course aliases, • Frequently Asked Question pages • Real time chat, whiteboard etc. (??) • Asynchronous discussion boards: BSCW • Collaboration: student group work, PBL, projects – virtual project room

  5. Online teaching-learning activities 2 • Feedback on performance: quiz, test, assess, evaluation • Student generated content, online ‘presentations’, peer review • Virtual laboratories, simulations, visualizations • Support for reflection: Statements of Reflection, online portfolios, Personal Development Portfolios, tutor comments on reflection by email

  6. Tracking student activity • By their messages, products • By web hits, but not for individuals • Discussion board activities • Virtual Learning Environment VLE • Tracking individual accesses to everything • Discussions reads/writes, chat transcripts • Customized release of content based on tests, etc. • Integrated user interface for tutor/author and student, customized, calendar, …

  7. Designing e-learning Pedagogy-pull not technology-push: • Analysis of learning needs and constraints, opportunities and risks • Learning outcomes defined • The teaching-learning activities needed • Every technology and teaching activity (TLA, medium, scenario) has strengths and weaknesses, and costs • Evaluate each medium and then the mix • On campus: blended with face-to-face

  8. Offline: technology support for face-to-face teaching • Lectures : • Digital projectors, visualizers • Networked PC for using web etc. • PowerPoint • Interactive Whiteboards including • Digital flipcharts • Voting devices for staff-student interaction • Shared use of software • Seminars, small groups: some of the above

  9. Final thoughts: eLearningis it a ‘good thing’? • Is chalk a good thing for learning? • Are rooms a good thing for learning? • Is technology a good thing for learning? • Is eLearning about learning, or just ‘e’?

  10. Learn.keele menu

  11. www.learn.keele automatic menu

  12. VLEs - WebCT

  13. WebCT designer view

  14. webCT manager

  15. BSCW folders

  16. BSCW discussion

  17. Digital flipchart

  18. Voting devices – Personal Response Systems • Electronic handsets • Mechanical devices like cubes

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