Transcript Educational Design and graduate attributes

How may CeLTS help you use
WebCT creatively?
HEDU – Academic staff development
EDG – Educational Design
AVU – Audio visual production
MDU – Multimedia development
David Kennedy
Tony Gilding
Academic Staff Development
HEDU – Higher Education Development Unit
• We provide advice and consultation on teaching issues.
• We assist individuals and groups with their educational
development project work.
• We run workshops on teaching and learning, both
programmed and ad hoc.
• We run the University's Graduate Certificate in Higher
Education.
• We provide resource materials to do with teaching and
learning.
Now we assist you to understand WebCT in your teaching
Online WebCT training
resources
•
WebCT training WebCT
http://www.celts.monash.edu.au/webct/
•
Eiffel Corp WebCT tutorials
•
WebCT online course about WebCT is also
available
•
Local resources are available or under
development
Workshop Activities
Basic skills & knowledge of
WebCT
Examples of using WebCT
Sharing understandings of
teaching and learning online
Communication
• Use email, online discussions
& chats
• Organise discussion groups
Sharing learning difficulties via
chat sessions
Using the discussion list for role
play simulations
• How do we communicate
effectively online?
• When f-to-f vs online
communication?
Assessment
• Create question databases
• Create surveys & tests
• View class and item statistics
• Traditional tests online
• “Just in time” surveys of your
students
• Structured use of online
discussion to substitute for
standard essays
• What are the limits of online
assessment?
• How may we use WebCT to
negotiate assessment?
• Why use the assessment tools?
• What assessment innovation is
possible online?
Content
• Organising WebCT tools
•Assembling Web pages &
media in WebCT
• Creating study guides linked to
CD ROM resources.
• Upload e-packs
• Placing student guides & study
materials online
•Using WebCT content delivery
to support problem based
learning
•Creating new learning activities
with old video vignettes
• How does our use of WebCT
change our f-to-f teaching on
campus?
• What’s online? Off-line? In
print? On CD-ROM? Why?
• How do we write online?
• How do we use media online?
Local knowledge of WebCT
Monash examples
Tips and advice
Unit focus & roles
HEDU
EDG, MDU & AVU
Help you learn about
…..
Help you develop
curriculum
You become a student
You become a member
of production team
Both activities may lead to conceptual change
Interactive multimedia &
media production
The Audio-Visual Production Unit (AVPU) provides a comprehensive
range of services in all areas of production, post production, duplication
and packaging of audio visual products.
See http://www.celts.monash.edu.au/html/audio-visual_production.html
The Multimedia Development Unit (MDU) is a team of highly skilled
web and multimedia professionals with offices located at Clayton and
Gippsland. MDU is able to draw upon the expertise of other CeLTS
sections to undertake large or complex projects.
See http://www.celts.monash.edu.au/html/multimedia_development.html
Interactivity
simulations
rich in media
Educational Design
Using WebCT creatively (or
effectively)
The Educational Design Group (EDG) provides support to academic staff in the
planning and design of courses and subjects and in staff development associated
with flexible learning and teaching.
See http://www.celts.monash.edu.au/html/educational_design.html
Links
information handling skills
Possible student activity
Strategies for the use of CFL
to accomplish learning task
Web searching for
online resources,
databases
Students are required to develop and
share resources, present online
summaries and critiques of materials
(e.g., web sites, text problems, analysis
of CD-Rom)
developing understanding
Problem solving
Engaging in collaborative tasks to solve
real problems in authentic contexts.
Case studies via web or CD-Rom.
More (2/4)
Possible student activity
Subject specific
exercises
linking theory to practice
Strategies for the use of CFL
to accomplish learning task
Online assignments through the TDG,
with assignment solutions forming the
basis for ongoing discussions
Simulations, WebCT online testing
More (3/4)
Possible student activity
Online debates, posing
questions for the group,
facilitating student
generated questions
practicing discussion,
argument, articulation of ideas
Strategies for the use of CFL
to accomplish learning task
1. Divide students into groups and set
TDGs specific to that group, with a
common TDG for the development of
the final argument
2. Including TDGs as part of tutorial
exercises, requiring students to develop
a set of FAQs specific to particular
concepts, posting solutions to
assignments/questions for discussion
3. Role playing exercises.
4. Visiting scholar(s)
rehearsing skills/ procedures
More (4/4)
Possible student activity
Strategies for the use of CFL
to accomplish learning task
Undertaking
assignments – doing
tutorials and receiving
feedback
1. Providing student specific
discussion groups for the sharing of
ideas and resources.
2. Setting up mentoring processes in
the discussion groups.
practicing teamwork
Completing exercises
in teams, sharing
resources, discussing
concepts and
answering questions
Allowing students to set up their own
discussion groups, group projects,
engaging students in collaborative
tasks (problem solving)
Example
Beyond the virtual patient
Comments & Questions