Side 1

Can Computer Supported Collaborative Learning help to fulfil

the VirClass goal?

Grete Oline Hole, HiB

Side 2

Pedagogical view• Constructivist and socio-cultural and

understanding of knowledge. • Task oriented and problem solving methods

of teaching and learning • Learner centred, • Learning object and task/assignments

structured to activate students in their learning process.

• Interaction, discussion and cooperation

Side 3

The two metaphors:

• The two metaphors of learning, and the danger of choosing only one

Learning seen as

Acquisition

or

Participation

Side 4

Goal

Assessment

The participants basis k l

Externals conditions

Methods

Contents

Didactical Model (the diamond)

Bjørndal & Lieberg, 1978

Side 5

All influence each other:

• Object/aim of course

• Learning materials

• Methods

• Students’ goals

• Type of assignment

• Type of assessment

• Knowledge in beforehand….

Side 6

Side 7

Virtual Learning Environment: • Provides the “online” interactions of various

kinds which can take place between learners and tutors

• Secure, due to password protection• Control access to a curriculum, mapped to

elements that can be separately assessed and recorded

• Track student activity and achievement• Allow tutors to set up a course with

materials and activities to direct, guide and monitor learner progress

Side 8

A VLE:

• Support online learning, – include access to learning resources,

assessment and guidance• Communication (between learner, tutor and

other) provide – support/ feedback for learners,– peer-group communications that build a

sense of group identity and community of interest

• Links to other resources, both in-house and externally

Side 9

Within a VLE (cont):• Often two views of the system, one for the

tutors and one for the student (= shared workplace)

• Browser based and use web technologies, – But: do not require knowledge of HTML in

order to use/contribute content • ”Anytime, anywhere”,(”7/24/365”) access

due to the use of web technology– The students dream; the teachers

nightmare, beware of that

Side 10

MLE

• Managed Learning Environment – refers to the whole range of

information systems and processes of a college

– (including its VLE if it has one) – that contribute directly, or indirectly– to learning and the management of

that learning

Side 11

A MLE:

• Focus on college processes and standards, not software products

• A framework for choices about

– software

– training

– support for learners and tutors

• Link together VLE (which deliver and track online-learning) with the Student Records System (SRS)

Side 12

• How can VLE help us fulfil our goal?

Side 13

Different view on ICT in learning

• CAI: Computer Assisted Instruction

• ITS: Intelligent Tutoring Systems

• CSCL:

– knowledge constructed in a social process

Side 14

Learning with ICT:

• Emphasize the socio-cognitive impact of teachers and learners working in partnership with technology:

• From studying the effects of the computer to focus on learning with the computer

• (and: through the computer)

Side 15

Achieve the political goals of Life Long Learning and Lisboa agenda:

(From the call for proposals/ other

EU-learning documents, and from our application)

Side 16

• Instructional design that integrate the potential of eLearing, linked to the objectives of the course

• Strengthen the link between research and education

• Share and reuse the learning content.

• Stimulate development of high quality service, group tutoring/coaching, CSCL, assessment, digital portfolio, virtual learning communities….

Side 17

• ICT has a potential to connect people across borders for collaboration and to make knowledge more accessible and sharable for advanced teaching and learning.-

• Common curricula, multilateral teaching offers, resource saving collaboration, common system of acknowledging degrees are important

Side 18

• Networks that deliver joint courses, programmes and services to the students in a Lifelong open and a flexible learning context

• Promote virtual mobility, (virtual learning communities, mobility in the framework of joint courses and curricula)….