Posted in learning, learning-journey, pedagogy on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Second Reflection on Online Pedagogy
Belinda Allan
This was my last subject (along with one other) in my Masters degree, so things were beginning to make sense. I was much better at writing to an academic standard as well as reading faster and more efficiently all the papers required.
Being the end of my Masters, and given the [...]
Posted in assessment, groupwork, learning-journey, pedagogy on May 12th, 2008 No Comments »
When members can’t take constructive criticisms of their work and see it as criticisms of themselves.
When members aren’t as enthused as each other (including myself) about the piece.
When members make judgments about other members based on age, gender, race or any other factor, and frame their interactions according to those judgments. Of course, especially when [...]
Posted in learning-journey, pedagogy on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Something that I’m beginning to realise as I progress in the “pedagogy in practice” course is that this subject is the icing on the cake. It’s tying together all my previous learning in instruction design, teaching strategies and tactics, teaching approaches and lifelong learning and even the more specific communities of practice and my other [...]
Posted in assessment, groupwork, learning, pedagogy on Apr 29th, 2008 No Comments »
See… I’m all for cooperative, collaborative learning and love sharing ideas, having meetings and generally have a good time whilst learning in a group. In fact, I love it. Where it gets my back up is having my grades rely on other people’s effort. I can name very few people that have as strong a [...]
Posted in interaction, learning, pedagogy on Apr 10th, 2008 No Comments »
The term ‘interaction’ has been misused and “carries so many meanings as to be almost useless unless specific submeanings can be defined and generally agreed upon.” (Moore, 1989, cited in Yacci, 2000).
“There are four major attributes to the concept of interactivity:
Interactivity is a message loop;
Instructional interactivity occurs from the learner’s point of view and does [...]
Posted in assessment, pedagogy, podcasting on Mar 27th, 2008 No Comments »
A few interesting papers I found on podcasting:-
Mark, J.W. & Anthony, C. (2007) Reducing the Effects of Isolation and Promoting Inclusivity for Distance Learners Through Podcasting, Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE January 2007, 8(1), from http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde25/pdf/article_7.pdf
Willians, J. & Fardon, M. (2006) Perperual connectivity: Lecture recordings and portable media players, Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007, from [...]
Posted in pedagogy, teaching on Mar 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Just thought I’d note a great quote I saw recently…
“A lecture is the best way to get information from the professor’s notebook into the student’s notebook without passing through either brain.” 1)
One of Pelz’s education professors cited in Pelz, B. (2004). Three principles of effective online pedagogy. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 8(3). Retrieved [...]
Posted in learning, pedagogy, teaching on Mar 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Sufficient levels of deep and meaningful learning can be developed, as long as one of the three forms of interaction (student-teacher; student-student; student-content) is at very high levels. The other two may be offered at minimal levels or even eliminated without degrading the educational experience. (Anderson, 2002)1
I’m not sure I agree with this. I understand [...]
Posted in learning, pedagogy on Mar 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
One of my biggest dilemmas in online learning was the reading level required within the course (which would be present in face-to-face study) but added to this is the reading required to participate in asynchronous discussion (more reading). When I do a VARK style test (Visual, Auditory, Reading and Kinaesthetic) my visual is highest followed [...]
Posted in learning, pedagogy on Mar 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
Situation
“The new trainees are waiting downstairs, and I’m not sure what to do with them. I know Helen was going to do some kind of assessment so she could start developing the students’ training profiles this week, but she’s away today - any suggestions??”“Well, there are some communication assessments in that storeroom cupboard, I think [...]
