Learning Innovations & Academic Development Welcome Welcome to “Elluminate Live Conference” While you are waiting for the session to start: Configure your

Learning Innovations & Academic Development

Welcome

Welcome to “Elluminate Live Conference”

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Learning Innovations & Academic DevelopmentWelcome

Technology Trends 2010

Facilitator: Shirley Lesch


What We Will Do Today

• Explore Elluminate Features • Examine Technology Trends and their

Intersection with Teaching & Learning• Reflect on Implications for

Teaching & Learning


Orientation



Poll


PollHave you used Elluminate live conferencing

before?

• Click green check – Yes• Click red X for -No


Poll –Online Course


• Click green check – Yes

• Click red X for -No

Poll

Will you be teaching online this year?


Participation

Will you be participating today?

Please click the letter button on the left that represents your response:

A. Sure, I’ll participate

B. No thanks, I’ll just watch

C. I missed it. What are we agreeing to?

Source: Karen Hyder presentation Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions



Chat Question

Chat TaskType a question for a poll you would ask the group, if you were facilitating a session in Elluminate.



White Board Tools



Map



Elluminate

• Live Web Conferencing Tool• Multi-media

webcam – videoaudio two-waywhite board – images, presentations

• Interactive writingpollingassessment of learning


Self-Check

Self Check



Who are the Learners?






• Social – Team oriented• Multi-tasking Style• Experiential in Learning

Real Life Experiences

• Digital, Connected• Reading Shallow• May Lack Critical Thinking Skills• Visual & Kinesthetic



What Students Like

• Animations• Images• Video/Audio• Interactivity• Visually Appealing


How is e-Learning Changing?

• More collaborative peer to peer learning• Co-creation• User as Creator • Open Source


How is e-Learning Changing?

• More collaborative peer to peer learning• Creation of Communities of

Interest/Practice• Co-creation• User as Creator• Open Source• Mobile• Augmented Reality


Technology & Learning

• Learning Informal • Social Networks

FaceBook

• Peer to Peer Sharing/Networks Flickr, Delicious

• Less Hierarchical• Learning more Informal and Collaborative

Intersection of Technology & Learning


Social Media

Twitter

Google Docs, Groups

Ning

Skype

Etherpad


More Social Media Tools

• Flickr Digital Photo Sharing Web Sitehttp://www.flickr.com

• Video HostingYouTube

http://www.flickr.com/


Delicious

• DeliciousSocial Bookmarkinghttp://del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/


Twitter

• Twitter http://www.twitter.com

http://del.icio.us/


Social Media

Twitter

Google Docs, Groups

Ning

Skype

Etherpad


Create, Connect, Collaborate

• Everyone Knows a little/no one knows a lot

• Content is always changing• Wiki –Free Collaborative software• Everyone can add to, edit page• Create dynamic collective knowledge

repository Source: Redefining the Role of the Learning Organization Collaborative and Informal Models and Roles of Learning Technologies Aug/06 Amar Dhaliwal Engineering Saba,and Jeff Weinberger, Marketing Saba


New Technology Trigger


Disruptive Innovations

• Generally slow to be adopted• Dramatic change when broad adoption

occurse.g.Mobile DevicesNow Widespread applications for GPS, hospitals, museums, Work

Source: cited in Adapted from Clayton M. ChristiansonThe Innovator’s Dilemma, 1997 Cambridge MAHarvard Business School Presscited in Abel, R.J.. 2005. What’s Next in Learning Technology in Higher Education. A-HEC in-Depth2 (2) Oct., 2005. Lake Mary, FL:The Alliance for Higher education Eompetitiveness, Inc. from http://www.a-hec.org/research/in-depth_articles/whats_next1005/wahts_next1005_toc.htm

http://www.a-hec.org/research/in-depth_articles/whats_next1005/wahts_next1005_toc.htm


Strategies for Effectiveness

• How will using technology help to address the learning outcomes?

• Will the learning experience be improved?


Reflection Question

1. Collective Wisdom or Rise of Amateurism?What do you think?

2. How will you participate in this evolution with your students?

Thanks for Attending!



Pros & Cons of Elluminate

Name What is one Pro or Con ?


World Map


Click the wand on the left, then select an icon at the bottom of the page, and click on the area of the world that you are from. Type your name as well.


Connection

• Teacher/Facilitator• Other Students• Content


Diverse Learning Styles



Shift in Learning Approach

• Structured Hierarchical

• Formal• Expert lecture• Prescribed Push• Delivering

• UnstructuredPeer to Peer

• Informal• User as Creator &

Contributor• Personalized Pull• Enabling

Source: Amar Dhaliwal VP EngineeringSabaJeff Weinberger Knowledgemanagement Saba



Pros Cons


Participant Info Window

• Raise/Lower Hand• Emoticons• Step Away



Direct Messaging Window

• Send a Text Message– Public

– Private


Participant Info Window

• Raise/Lower Hand

• Emoticons

• Step Away


Connection Speed

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Learning Innovations & Academic DevelopmentInteraction• Mark where you are from on the map• Then click the letter A to write the name of the country or

city



Thoughts re e-Learning Shifts?

Documents

Learning Innovations & Academic Development Welcome Welcome to “Elluminate Live Conference” While you are waiting for the session to start: Configure your