in e-Learning UNIQUe Award. Learning Technologist of ... To see the potential of
enhancing the learning experience at Unisa .... https://my.unisa.ac.za/. Unisa ...
Introduction to Teaching Online (E-moderating) Gabi Witthaus and Simon Kear www.le.ac.uk/mediazoo Beyond Distance RESEARCH ALLIANCE Open Rubric
Learning Technologist of the Year 2009: Team Award
European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning UNIQUe Award
Workshop aims and outcomes To see the potential of enhancing the learning experience at Unisa through informed use of myUnisa. You will: • Experience the use of some key tools for collaboration • Identify possible pedagogical applications at Unisa (short-, medium- and long-term) Unisa, September 2011
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Workshop outline 1. Welcome and introductions 2. ‘Dreams and nightmares’ 3. E-moderating and E-tivities Break 4. DF/Wikis/Blogs e-tivity round 1 5. DF/Wikis/Blogs e-tivity round 2 Lunch 6. DF/Wikis/Blogs e-tivity round 3 7. DF/Wikis/Blogs responses 8. Reflection/ take-aways Unisa, September 2011
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“I put my content online, therefore my students do e-learning”
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Process Development Guide for E-moderators
5 stage model for productive learning forums 5. Development
4. Collaboration
3. Co-operation
2. Culture Building
1. Access & Motivation
5 stage model for productive learning forums Link, Feedback, Search
Interact
Navigate, save time, personalise
5. Development
4. Collaboration
3. Co-operation
Receive and Send
2. Culture Building
Access
1. Access & Motivation
5 stage model for productive learning forums: the role of the e-moderator
5. Development
4. Collaboration
3. Co-operation
2. Culture Building
1. Access & Motivation
Guide
Facilitate
Lead
Host
Welcome
Alexkess
yarnzombie
ToniVC
Larger numbers
Groups of 15, divided up for more 1 e-moderator can manage 2 or 3 groups (Trained) students can help Focus on what the e-moderator can do (weaving, summarising, feedback)
Designing together: Carpe Diem
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Seize the Day • Invest two days of your time • and get the course online
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/linksmanjd/
Dissemination of evidence
‘But they won’t engage!’
E-tivities Asynchronous online learning activities that: • Foster effective and purposeful interactions • Provide ‘hinges’ and reflective points between course components • Contribute to the achievement of learning outcomes • May contribute to assessment
E-tivities are… • • • • • • • •
Brief and clear (not ‘mini-projects’!) Motivating, engaging, purposeful Mappable against (and aligned with) learning outcomes Designed to generate meaningful interaction Useful as an assessment scaffold Designed and led by an e-moderator Asynchronous Cheap to produce and easy to run: good design leads to cost-effective e-moderation
Key features of e-tivities • Stimulus or challenge (the ‘spark’) • Online activity, which includes individual participants posting a contribution to a forum, wiki, blog, etc. • An interactive element, such as responding to the postings of others • Summary, feedback or critique from an emoderator (the ‘plenary’)
Politics and International Relations University of Leicester • Suite of MAs taught at a distance • Delivered wholly online • E-tivities for formative and summative assessment
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myUnisa
The version https://my.unisa.ac.za/
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Let’s start!!
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Reflection: application at Unisa • What are the following good for: – Discussion Forum – Wiki – Blog
• How could e-tivities be used at Unisa: – In the short term (next 6 months to one year)? – In the medium term (one to two years)? – In the long term(three years on)?
• How can you start preparing for this future? Unisa, September 2011
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Dreams and nightmares revisited • Any takeaways from the discussion you had in the discussion forum about your dreams and nightmares? • Any further thoughts/ comments on your dreams and nightmares?
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