Lecture by Mikhail Fominykh at Technology-Enhanced Learning 1 course, University of Oulu, Finland: Technological decisions in course design, March 14, 2013

1. Technological Decisions in
Course Design
lecture
Mikhail Fominykh
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Technology-Enhanced Learning 1 course
University of Oulu, Finland
March, 14 2013
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2. Outline
o Questions
o Good start
o Role of technology
o Technology challenges
o Tools
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3. Outline
o Questions
o Good start
o Role of technology
o Technology challenges
o Tools
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4. Questions
o Do YOU have technology-related
questions?
o Activity
– Work in groups of 3–5
– Discuss what technology-related questions you have
– After 5 minutes, present three main questions
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5. Questions
o What is TEL?
o Why doing TEL?
o Why is TEL so difficult?
o How to design technological
environments for learning?
o How to choose appropriate
technology/media?
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6. TEL: technology-enhanced learning
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7. Outline
o Questions
o Good start
o Role of technology
o Technology challenges
o Tools
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8. Good start for TEL design
o What factors have to considered before
(or when) you start?
o Activity
– Work in groups of 3–5
– Discuss what factors need to be considered before
you start designing a TEL activity or course
– After 7 minutes, present as many factors as you find
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9. Good start for TEL: content
o Subject and scope, or a learning goal
o Complexity level: requisites / outcomes
o Syllabus and related work
o Materials or learning content
o Structure, rules, delivery, assessment
o Calendar
o etc.
[http://ctl.stanford.edu/handbook/course-design.html]
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10. Good start for TEL: context
o Learners
– Prior knowledge and experience
– Preferences and expectations
o Settings
– Geographical location, language and culture
– Access to equipment and connectivity
– Requirements and expected outcomes
o Available resources
o etc.
[http://ctl.stanford.edu/handbook/course-design.html]
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11. TEL: technology-enhanced learners
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12. Internet: everything is there!
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13. Know learners before decide how to
support them: factors to consider
o If learners are co-located or distributed
o If there is any specific technology that
learners are already familiar with
o If a learning management system is
already in use
o Equipment and connectivity learners
have access to
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14. Outline
o Questions
o Good start
o Role of technology
o Technology challenges
o Tools
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15. Role of technology
o What is the role of technology in TEL?
o Activity
– Work in groups of 3–5
– Discuss what kind of role(s) technology can play in
TEL activity or course
– After 7 minutes, present three main roles
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16. Role of technology
o What learning approach do you apply?
– Constructivism?
– Reflective learning?
o Do you need technology to support
learning?
– What is learning exactly?
o Do you need technology to support specific
activities or enable something?
– Access to resources?
– Communication or collaboration?
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17. Role of technology
o Supporting learning activities
– safe solutions
– facilitating
– increasing efficiency
o Creating learning experience
– new solutions
– changing
– increasing creativity
o Supporting secondary activities
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18. Support: access to resources
o What type of material should be supported
(only text, multimedia, …)?
o Who should get access to it (open access,
restricted, group access, …)?
o Is there any specific learning tool that
student should access? …
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19. Support: communication
o Synchronous communication, i.e. students
talking to each others like in a face to face
meeting
o Asynchronous communication, i.e. when
students are not present at the same time
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20. Support: more
o Coordination
o Awareness
o Discussion / constructing understanding
o Collaborating / constructing shared artifacts
o etc.
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21. Outline
o Questions
o Good start
o Role of technology
o Technology challenges
o Tools
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22. Technology challenges in TEL
o What are the technology challenges in
TEL?
o Activity
– Work in groups of 3–5
– Discuss what kind of technology-related challenges
exist in conducting TEL activities or courses
– After 7 minutes, present three main challenges
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23. Grand TEL challenges
o Connecting learners
o Orchestrating learning
o Contextualizing virtual learning
environments and instrumentalizing learning
contexts
[http://www.stellarnet.eu/]
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24. Outline
o Questions
o Good start
o Role of technology
o Technology challenges
o Tools
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25. TEL tools
o Siemens G. and Tittenberger P. (2009)
“Handbook of Emerging Technologies for
Learning”
[http://www.scribd.com/doc/54496169/Handbook-of-Emerging-
Technologies-for-Learning-Siemens-Tittenberger]
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26. Thank you!
Mikhail Fominykh
mikhail.fominykh@ntnu.no
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~fominykh/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/fominykh
http://slideshare.net/mfominykh/
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