1 meaningful e-learning founder and president mcweadon.com badrul huda khan, ph.d
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Meaningful E-Learning
Founder and PresidentMcWeadon.com
Badrul Huda Khan, Ph.D.
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ContentContent StudentsStudentsInstructorInstructor
E-learning is an instructional model that allows instructor, students, and content to be located in different, noncentralized locations so that instruction and learning occur independent of time and place.
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A high quality e-learning system
must be meaningful to all stakeholders groups:
• Learners• Instructors• Technical & Support Staff• Organization
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An e-learning system is more likely to be
meaningful to learners when it is • easily accessible• clearly organized• well written• authoritatively presented• learner‑centered• affordable• efficient• flexible, and has a • facilitated learning environment.
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When learners display a high level of participation and success in meeting a course's goals and objectives, this can make e-learning meaningful to instructors.
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When learners enjoy all available support services provided in the course without any interruptions, it
makes support services staff happy as they strive to provide easy-to-use, reliable services.
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Finally, e-learning is meaningful to an organization when it has a sound return-on-investment (ROI), a moderate to high level of learners' satisfaction with both the quality of instruction and all support services, and a low drop-out rate.
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Today, I would like to introduce a Framework which I believe will help us identify important criteria for quality E-Learning.
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Eth
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Inst
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Inst
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Resource
Resource
Support
Support
On-line and off-line resources & support
ManagementManagement
Meaningful
PedagogicalPedagogical
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Evalu
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Technological
TechnologicalIn
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Learning and teaching issuesInfrastructure, hardware and software Physical layout and navigation Content development and maintenanceAcademic, administrative & student services Ethical considerations in e-learningAssessment of learner, evaluation of learning environment
Learning
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Stakeholder Focused E-LearningPut each stakeholder group (learners, instructors, technical staff, etc.) at the center of the octagon and ask questions along the eight dimensions. By doing this exercise, you will be able to understand critical e-learning issues for each group.
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5. MANAGEMENT5.1 E‑Learning Content
Development5.2 E-Learning Maintenance
6. RESOURCE SUPPORT6.1 Online support6.2 Resources
7. ETHICAL7.1 Social and Political
Influence7.2 Cultural Diversity7.3 Bias7.4 Geographical diversity7.5 Learner diversity7.6 Digital Divide7.7 Etiquette7.8 Legal issues
8. INSTITUTIONAL8.1 Administrative Affairs8.2 Academic affairs8.2 Student services
1. PEDAGOGICAL1.1 Content Analysis1.2 Audience Analysis1.3 Goal Analysis 1.4 Medium Analysis1.5 Design approach1.6 Organization1.7 Methods and Strategies
2. TECHNOLOGICAL2.1 Infrastructure planning2.2 Hardware2.3 Software
3. INTERFACE DESIGN3.1 Page and site design3.2 Content design3.3 Navigation3.4 Accessibility 3.5 Usability testing
4. EVALUATION4.1 Assessment of learners4.2 Evaluation of the instruction
& learning environment http://BooksToRead.com/framework/dimensions.htm
Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
What types of content are appropriate to teach via a variety of E-Learning approaches?
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Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
Content Suitability Testing
STABLE Content
DYNAMIC Content
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Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
• Who are the learners?
Does the institution have adequate information about the learners at a distance?
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Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
Does the course provide clear expectations of what the student is required to do?
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Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
Does the course utilize multimedia attributes of the Internet and digital technologies? - text
- audio
- video
- graphics
- other (specify)
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Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
• What is the instructor’s role?
- more facilitative than
didactic
- more didactic than facilitative
- a combination of both
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Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
• Does the course provide a sense of continuity? (e.g., each unit of the lesson builds on the previous unit, etc.)
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Pedagogical Content
Audience
Goals
Medium Medium
Design
Organization
Methods
• Does the course promote Inside Collaboration by providing a supportive environment for asking questions, clarifying directions, suggesting or contributing resources and working on joint projects with class members?
Interface DesignPage and Site
Design
Content Design
Navigation
Accessibility
Usability Testing
Is the program designed to be accessible by a wider user population?
(A common accessibility concern in the USA -- Is the course 508 compliant?)
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
To improve cross-cultural verbal communication and avoid misunderstanding, does the program make an effort to reduce or avoid the use of jargon, idioms, ambiguous or cute humor, and acronyms?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
Is the program offered to geographically diverse population? If yes ...
Is the program sensitive about students from different time-zones (e.g. synchronous communications are scheduled at reasonable times for all time zones represented)?
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Technological
Infrastructure Planning
Hardware
Software
Does the course have personnel who can assist learners to set up for starting the course?
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Technological
Infrastructure Planning
Hardware
Software
Are the hardware requirements for the course clearly stated?
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Technological
Infrastructure Planning
Hardware
Software
Does the course provide links to resources where all necessary software can be downloaded?
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Interface DesignPage and Site
Design
Content Design
Navigation
Accessibility
Usability Testing
Do Web pages look good in a variety of Web browsers and devices--in text-based browsers, all recent versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape, and so on.?
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Interface DesignPage and Site
Design
Content Design
Navigation
Accessibility
Usability Testing
Does the course follow “one idea per paragraph” rule?
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Interface DesignPage and Site
Design
Content Design
Navigation
Accessibility
Usability Testing
Does the course provide structural aids or site map to guide learner’s navigation?
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Interface DesignPage and Site
Design
Content Design
Navigation
Accessibility
Usability Testing
Is the course Website designed to be accessible by a wider user population?
(Is the course 508 compliant?)
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Interface DesignPage and Site
Design
Content Design
Navigation
Accessibility
Usability Testing
How quickly users find answers to the most frequently asked questions on the course site?
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Evaluation
Assessment of Learners
Evaluation of
Instruction & Learning Environment
Does the course have a mechanism in which a learner can be truly measured and not cheat?
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Evaluation
Assessment of Learners
Evaluation of
Instruction & Learning Environment
Does the course have a system to accept students’ online evaluation of the following? - content
- instructor
- learning environment
- learning resources
- course design
- technical support
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Management Content
Development
Maintenance
Is there a project support site for e‑learning production team?
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Management Content
Development
Maintenance
Does the course notify students about any changes in due dates or other course relevant matters (e.g., server down) via following means?- e-mail
- announcement page
- alert boxes
- running footer added to a page
- phone call
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Resource Support
Online Support
Resources
Does the course provide
troubleshooting (or expert technical support from specialized staff) assistance or a help line?
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Resource Support
Online Support
Resources
Does the course provide examples of previous student's work on the Web?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
Does the institution have to get approval from any external entities (who can serve as political barriers) to implement e-learning?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
To improve cross-cultural verbal communication and avoid misunderstanding, does the course make an effort to reduce or avoid the use of jargon, idioms, ambiguous or cute humor, and acronyms?
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The “thumbs up” gesture meaning well done in the US, represents an obscenity meaning in Iraq, Iran, and Thailand.
In Bangladesh it is a derogatory term.
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
Does the course present more than one viewpoint on controversial issues?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
Is the course offered to geographically diverse population? If yes ...
Is the course sensitive about students from different time-zones (e.g. synchronous communications are scheduled at reasonable times for all time zones represented)?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
Is the course designed to have patience for learners who adapt to individualized distributed learning environment slower than others?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
Information accessibility issue must be expressed in terms of digital “haves” and “have nots,” a gap expressed in the term “digital divide.”
Is the digital divide issue considered in designing the e‑learning content?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
• Does the course provide any guidance to learners on how to behave and post messages in online discussions so that their postings do not hurt others’ feelings?
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EthicalSocial/Political
Influence
Cultural Diversity
Bias
Geographical Diversity
Learner Diversity
Digital Divide
Etiquette
Legal Issues
Does the course get students’ permission to post any of the following on the Web?
- students’ photographs
- students’ projects
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Institutional
Administrative Affairs
Academic Affairs
Student Services
Is the institution ready to offer online courses?
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Institutional
Administrative Affairs
Academic Affairs
Student Services
Does the course provide academic quality such as one would expect in a traditional course?
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Institutional
Are instructor/tutor and technical staff available during online orientation?
Administrative Affairs
Academic Affairs
Student Services
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Within the scope of today’s presentation, I have presented few learning issues in the form of questions that you can ask yourself when planning, designing, evaluating or implementing meaningful E-Learning.
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The Framework in Practice and
My Mission
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My New
Book in Persian
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Questions and comments?
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Meaningful E-Learning
Badrul Huda Khan, Ph.D.
Founder and PresidentMcWeadon.com