Current Issues in Technology Enhanced Learning

Seminar WS 2005

Jürgen Heller

Topics Course SS05

• Psychological Foundation: Learning Theories

• Evaluation of Distance Learning

• Blended Learning

• Game-based Learning

• Learning Styles

Topics List

• Design of eLearning Courses

• Learning Design

• Cooperative Learning

• Theoretical Background

• Learning Platforms

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Contributions

• Presentation– Theoretical Background– Review Article– Original Journal Article– Learning Platforms and Technology

• Practical Work– Design of a Online Course

Design of eLearning Courses

• Topics and Resources

– Roadmap to Course Redesignhttp://www.center.rpi.edu/R2R/R2R.html

• Program in course redesign• Redesign projects• Planning resources• Academic practices

Learning Design • Topics and Resources

– Reviewhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ACF83C.doc

– Advances in Learning Design (Special Issue). Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2005/01 http://jime.open.ac.uk/2005/01/

– Koper E.R.J. (2001). Modelling Units of Study from a Pedagogical Perspective: the pedagogical meta model behind EML http://eml.ou.nl/introduction/docs/ped-metamodel.pdf

– Constructivist Learning Designhttp://www.prainbow.com/cld/cldp.html

– Online Support http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/

– UNFOLD EC-Projecthttp://www.unfold-project.net

– LAMS Learning Activity Management System http://www.lamsinternational.com/

Cooperative Learning

• Topics– Group learning– Computer Supported Cooperative Learning

(CSCL)– Groupware– Computer mediated communication (CMC)

• Media Theory• Communication Tools

Cooperative Learning

Resources• Online

– http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/– http://www.foundationcoalition.org/home/

keycomponents/collaborative_learning.html (lots of further links)

– http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/GroupTools.htm – http://www.clcrc.com/ – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work

Cooperative Learning Resources• Papers

– Dietz-Uhler, B. & Bishop-Clark (2001). The use of computer-mediated communication to enhance subsequent face-to-face discussions. Computers in Human Behavior, 17, 269–283.

– Benbunan-Fich, R. & Hiltz, S.R. (1999). Impacts of Asynchronous Learning Networks on Individual and Group Problem Solving: A Field Experiment. Group Decision and Negotiation, 8, 409–426.

– Dennis, A.R. & Valacich, J.S. (1999). Rethinking Media Richness: Towards a Theory of Media Synchronicity. Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

– Briggs, R.O., de Vreede, G.-J., Nunamaker, J.F.Jr. & Tobey, D. (2001). ThinkLets: Achieving Predictable, Repeatable Patterns of Group Interaction with Group Support Systems (GSS). Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

– Veerman, A.L., Andriessen, J.E.B. & Kanselaar, G. (2000). Learning through synchronous electronic discussion. Computers & Education, 34, 269-290.

Learning Platforms

• Open Source Platforms– Moodle http://moodle.org/– Claroline http://www.claroline.net/– ILIAS http://achill.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/

• Commercial Systems– WebCT http://www.webct.com/– Microsoft Learning Gateway

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/education/microsoftLearningGateway.mspx

Theoretical Background

• Topics and Resources– Theoretical Sources in IT

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/theory.html

• Instructional design models, constructivism, learning environments, media theory (CMC)

– Formal Representations• Ontologies (incl. software Protégé)• Educational Modelling Language (EML)http://eml.ou.nl/eml-ou-nl.htm

• IMS Learning Designhttp://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/index.html

Website

• URL

http://css.uni-graz.at/courses/TeLearn

• Access to Internal Pages– Login

TeLearn– Password

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