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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

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtisperry/

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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