Transcript Identify effective resources available……

Identify effective resources
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…….to support teaching and learning
Learning Outcome 1
• All those involved in teaching and training
need to develop resources in support of their
role. In recent times the growth of the
internet has increased the availability of both
free and paid resources. Teachers and
trainers support each other by developing
and sharing their resources with colleagues.
They first need to identify those resources
already available in their own institutions.
Resources in own Institution
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Library
Publications
Printed materials, Charts and Maps
Artefacts
Models and equipment
Case studies
Electronic media, computers, intranet
External resources:
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Internet, CD/DVD/VLE
Library
The Media
Examination and qualification awarding
bodies
• Conferences, networking, in-service training
• Exhibitions
Effectiveness of different resources:
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Purpose
Supportive
Motivational
Inspirational
Transformational
Enjoyable, Re-inforcement, Consolidation
Fostering Independent Learning
Computer Based Resources:
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Availability
Cost
Access
Expertise
Effectiveness
Tell me
Give me clear instructions in words I
can understand
Show me
Animated explanations of how it
happens, simulations, demos
Let me
Guide me in performing a procedure
on my own
Quest for interactive resources:
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Multi-media content
Java applets
Google wave
Learning Objects
Purposes of Muli-media Communication
• Enthuse;exhort;excite;arouse
• Entertain;amuse
• Educate;Transfer learning
• Enlighten;equanimity;Catharsis
Mapping interactivity to learning outcomes
• Often interactivity is used merely at the
grabbing attention stage….
• a good opening story,
• statement of a puzzle,
• several learner responses
Levels of interactivity in converged
media
• Non-interactive
• Low interactivity
• Medium level interactivity
• Highly interactive
Non-interactive
• Static web-pages
• Self-running presentations
• Powerpoint,Flash,streaming media
Low interactivity
• Dynamic web-pages
• Elementary branching (Skinner model)
• Links to other web-sites
• Threaded discussions
Medium level interactive
• Fill-in-the-blanks, Drag and drop activities,
Match pairs
• Java applets
• Web-quests
• E-mail
High level interactivity
• Clickographic profiles
• Instant messaging,polling
• Pop-up messages
• Simulation, Virtual Reality
• Highly adaptive web-pages presented to the user based on
push technologies
New modes of interactivity in
traditional lectures
• Polling through sms
• E-mailing in real time
• Integrating instant messaging in a face to face
classroom
Interactivity in a
webcast
Production
Call-in
E-mail
Polling
Chat
Java applets in education
A new dimension of interactive econtent
What are Java applets?
• Applets are programs written in Java
• Applets require a www browser or another
Java application to run
• A Java application is a stand-alone program
that needs a Java interpreter,such as the java
Virtual Machine to run
Advantages of Java as a programming
language
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Speed
Interoperability
User interaction
Portability and platform independence
Distributed and network computing
Development and Maintenance
Pedagogical dimensions
• Appropriateness
• Training
• Availability
• No silver bullet
Technological dimensions
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Limitations of Java syntax
Compliancy
Graphical User Interface
Robustness
Efficiency
Security
Help
Process engineering
Examples in Chemistry
• Informational applets:The periodic Table
• Concept illustrating applets:Why things have colour
• Computational applets:Molecular Dynamics,Acid
base titration
• Assessment applets:Chemistry Quiz
Examples in Physics
• Informational applets:Optical Table
• Concept illustrating applets:Young’s double slit
interference experiment
• Computational applets:Series approximation
using Fourier and Legendre expansions
• Assessment applets:Newton’s third law
Examples in Mathematics
• Informational applets:Addition and multiplication
tables in different bases
• Concept illustrating applets:Fractal curves and
dimensions
• Computational applets:Symbolic
algebraicComputation
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Examples : Miscellaneous
• Informational applets
• Concept illustrating applets:Tower of Hanoi
• Computational applets
• Assessment applets
Google wave
• Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a
rethinking of electronic communication. Users create online
spaces called "waves," which include multiple discrete
messages and components that constitute a running,
conversational document. Users access waves through the
web, resulting in a model of communication in which rather
than sending separate copies of multiple messages to
different people, the content resides in a single space.
Wave offers a compelling platform for personal learning
environments because it provides a single location for
collecting information from diverse sources while
accommodating a variety of formats, and it makes
interactive coursework a possibility for nontechnical
students.
Attributes of a good resource?
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Must be effective for learning purposes
Serves the learning needs of the learner
In an appropriate language
Efficient in time
Is practical
Easily accessible
Makes Learning enjoyable
Some more attributes:
• Motivates learners
• Reinforces learning
• Consolidation of learning
• Fosters independent learning
• Referential use for teachers, trainers &
learners
• Supports different learning styles (visual,
kinesthetic, auditory)
Using open learning resources
• The variety and range of resources
• Models of sharing resources
• Learning from open learning resources
The variety and range of resources
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MIT opencourseware initiative
The Gutenberg project
Google/Microsoft library project
Wikipedias
Learning Repositories
Blogs
Podcasts
Some useful links
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www.col.org
www.merlot.org
http://ocw.mit.edu
www.gutenberg.org
www.wikipedia.org
http://cloe.on.ca
Digital rights management
• TRIPS IPR framework
• Creative Commons
Learning from open learning resources
• Learning Objectives
• Learning Styles
• Learner Contracts
• Assessing achievements
Ways of Knowing?
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Authority
Memory
Faith
Logically
Empirically
Moral belief
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Introspection
Empathy
Conscience
Practice
Acquaintance
Instinctively