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Using Technology to Support Distance Learners

Using Technology to Support Distance Learners. Keith Beechener Associate Teaching Fellow: COLMSCT Associate Lecturer: T175 & MST121. Aims of presentation. To show some uses of the ‘First Class’ technologies To illustrate examples of using Web 2.0 tools to support students

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Using Technology to Support Distance Learners

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  1. Using Technology to Support Distance Learners Keith Beechener Associate Teaching Fellow: COLMSCT Associate Lecturer: T175 & MST121

  2. Aims of presentation • To show some uses of the ‘First Class’ technologies • To illustrate examples of using Web 2.0 tools to support students • To highlight some early results of using a social bookmarking website • To pose some questions about the reliance on the use of technology

  3. Landline telephone Mobile phone Video (tape / DVD) Audio (cassette / CD) Handouts (tutorials) Assignment feedback TV programmes Radio Email FC Conference / Forum Instant Messaging / FC Chat Video conference (Skype) Audio conference (Lyceum) Blogging Podcast Wiki VLE (Moodle) Second Life (CETLMENT) ePortfolios Social Networking Communications Technologies

  4. http://discuss2.open.ac.uk/~keith_beechener/t175/

  5. Technology for technology’s sake? • When technology fails …? • How many have the requisite access to technology? • How are the i-skills acquired? • Where next …?

  6. eTMA cut-off ePortfolio system down Course web site down eTMA system down

  7. National Statistics (2006) • 48% of Scotland households with Internet access • 66% of South East households with Internet access ---------------------------------------------------------------- • 57% of households in GB with Internet access ---------------------------------------------------------------- • 13.9 million households in GB with Internet access

  8. Where, When and Howdo University Students acquire their ICT Skills? In Great Britain, National Statistics (2004) published in June 2004 show that over 60% of all adults aged 16 and over have the ICT skills necessary to have used the Internet at some time, most commonly for e-mail or to buy or order tickets, goods or services. In the EU, the Final Report of the Survey of European Universities Skills in ICT of Students and Staff (SEUSISS) Project (2003) suggests that university students will learn, develop or ‘pick up’ their ICT skills from a variety of formal and informal sources. They will have attended formal training sessions in school or at college or had informal tuition from friends, family or peers or taught themselves with user manuals. Simon Rae Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

  9. Whilst looking for some of my lost students in the Practice Conference I noticed a student who says he can't make contact with his group or find the eTMA. This year has been the worst for students being incommunicado. Of the 12 on my list I have: 1 x no phone number given at all 1 x that doesn't take incoming calls 1 x that cuts off after 10 rings 1 x a number that goes through to an answering machine that won't take messages 1 x a number unobtainable I have now found another two lost students. How do I find the practice conference as I have some strays too? I found one of my students who had posted in the main student forums but not mine, so I emailed him. I'm still not sure why he had ignored all the previous messages that I sent to his mailbox. I guess I was just a bit more explicit about the contact needing to be two way (e.g. 'I am trying to get in touch ...', 'Please could you reply to this email ...')

  10. … the idea of students rewriting CMA questions to get an answer they prefer to the one we've picked. ... why stop there? … go even further and make all assessment questions available on a wiki for all students to edit as they see fit? Yes, we could freeze them three weeks before the cut-off and it would be their own fault if they didn't understand the question or made a total mess of it. What if … we dispense with the questions altogether and ask students to submit only the answers (indicating whether the answer is right or wrong), then marking would be a lot easier …

  11. … during the coming weekend create an image of your choice using either a mobile phone camera or digital camera (or by borrowing one if you don't have one) and upload your selected picture to an account on Flickr.com. It should be of a location that you have visited this weekend.

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