Maher ARAFAT, Baker Abdalhaq An-Najah National University Excellence in Learning and Teaching

1. Learner Created ContentWeb 2.0 Collaborative Technologies to Construct Knowledge Using Learner-Created Content Method in a Learning Centered Approach Maher ARAFAT, Baker Abdalhaq An-Najah National University Excellence in Learning and Teaching June 1st, 2012

2. ”المستقبل الذي نتمناه - سلوك نتبناه“ In some cases, teaching at its best, is clowning. - Teacher Based. - Text Based. Learning Centered.

3. Why MIT is successful? We provide our learners with the opportunity to: 1- To raise questions. 2- Participate in discussions.

4. Why Stanford is successful? • “As a staff I work at Stanford because they have an outstanding Students, • I attended Stanford as a student because they have outstanding Faculty.

5. Three Paradigm shifts (Eijkman,2009) • The post-information shift in learning practices Industrial Age - Info Age - Post-Info Age • The social shift in learning theory Cognitive - Constructivism - Social constructivism • The participatory shift in learning technology Web 1.0 – Post-Web 1.0 – Web 2.0, 3.0 etc. A macro shift ? Fundamental challenges to old practices arafatmy@najah.edu 5

6. 3 Pillars of Successful Education (Elements of Quality Educational) • Outstanding student, (Surface, Deep, Strategic, Learners) • Outstanding faculty, (Knowledge, What& Howto teach) • Outstanding Mgmt. & Learning Support

7. Passive Consumption? One of the challenges that we are facing is the increased pressure on teachers to deliver content for their students, this often results in lots of handouts, power points and docs. Many Course on Virtual Learning Env. are stuffed full with material with little to do with them other than taking notes.

8. Personalized Resources Learning is influenced by ( Tasks & Resources ). so We need to create Resources that match learning style, not matching our teaching style. If they created the Resources themselves, there is a likely hood that they’ll meet their Learning Preferences and Needs.

9. The Goal of Educationin the 21st century Tsunamis Allowing learners to realize their capacity to learn, (Learning Environment & Learning Spaces) Moving education from delivery of static info to a more: “a dialogical relation where knowledge is co-created” (Josie Gregory, Facilitation and Facilitator Style, p.99) arafatmy@najah.edu http://4.bp.blogspot.com

10. Learner Create Content LCC Aims to meet the learners' learning needs and shifts the course activities more towards: • Interactive learning. • Engaging Creativity. • Autonomy, Mutual Responsibility • Collaboration, Skills, ICT “Socially Interactive Participation in Meaning Making.”

11. LCC is not a recipe for teacher to sit back. It is a big challenge to follow up & increase curiosity.

12. The Process of LCC Chapter Zero Do not expect students to work in vacuum • Clear tasks … On time …With Assessment Plan. • Scaffold to support Learning (Reading material and web links) • Adapt a moderate learning curve and start with small steps. • Feedback to gauge their progress. JISC Techdis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6026CPUVDvY

14. The Challenge of the “Comfort Zone” Anxiety Support Motivation Engagement

16. Group work • 38 students, 10 groups. • In a weekly rotation each group took turn to present their findings. • 9-10 Sun, Tue, Thu. • Workshop

17. http://odc-scc-nnu.wikispaces.com/

18. Activities • In-class-Activity: We had 2 guests speakers from Northwestern University, Dr. Greg. Light and Dr. Denise Darne, on Tuesday Feb. 14th.. • We had guest speaker from Tomorrow's Youth Organization, Ms.Humairawkili on Thursday April 5th. • Off-Campus: Open-StudyDay, Saturday, March 24th, @ مركز حمدي منكو الثقافي. • Off-Campus: Open Study Day, Saturday, March 31st, @ مركز الطفل الثقافي- بلدية نابلس

21. Conclusion & Outcomes • At the beginning of the course learners have the highest positive attitude towards LCC. • %70 believed that LCC helped in identifying & achieving Learning goals. • Positive attitude that LCC using Wikispaces facilitated interaction & collaboration to construct knowledge. • 70 % of the students believed that LCC improved their interpersonal and communication skills. • %70 of the students think that they can find new relations and come up with new ideas. • Grades, was a major concern for students. 50% of students didn’t like the evaluation method.

22. Ability to Identify and meet learning needs • Satisfaction & Sense of achievement. • Ability to analyze and compare to come up with new concepts. • Continuing learning. LLL. • Behavior and attitudes. • Communication and interpersonal skill. • Learn new things from team members. • English Language skills. • Using web 2.0 …wiki spaces.

23. Learner Created Content LCC Learners became more responsible to seek and meet their learning needs, work collaboratively to construct meanings. LCC Questionnaire Google Forms

26. Recommendations • Prepare learners to use wikispaces • The total number of subjects. • Sequence • Formative Evaluation. • Be very well prepared for it.

27. Things that we need to avoid. Thought Control Thought Control Thought Control arafatmy@najah.edu

28. "لا قدسية لمحتوى، و لا قدسية لمدرس و لا حدود لقدرات الطلاب“Learning Centered