E-Learning and the Road to Success

• Today’s Agenda• Introductions

• E-Learning 101

• Tools

• Virtual Simulations

• Collaboration

“Technology integration is the term used by educators to describe effective uses of technology by teachers and students in classrooms”

E-Learning and the Road to Success

Society is ready for a change to education but the stakeholders are not so willing to let go of a system that has served us well for two plus centuries. Education needs to reflect the reality of the students living in the information age.

The current approach to education has resulted in a dropout rate of nine point four percent (2005) and only twenty-eight percent of twelfth grade high school students believe that school work is meaningful. (Wirt, Choy, Gerald, Provasnik, Rooney, and Watanabe, 2002).

E-Learning and the Road to Success

There are four types of e-learning.

• Informal• Self Paced• Leader-Led• Performance support tools

-Broadbent 2002 p.10

E-Learning and the Road to Success

• Informal learning can be described as a well-designed web-site.

• “Informal e-learning involves no structured training program. Instead, people have access to sources of information which they can dip into on an as-needed basis. These information sources may be available as Web sites, organizational Intranet sites, and online discussion groups or simply e-mail.”

- Broadbent 2002

E-Learning and the Road to Success

• Self Paced learning can be described as a web-based training material which the student uses at their own pace.

• “Self-paced learning refers to the process whereby learners access computer-based or Web-based training materials at their own pace. Learner select what they wish to learn, decide when they will learn it, and set the pace they wish.”

- Broadbent 2002

E-Learning and the Road to Success

• Leader-Led learning, as the name suggests, refers to a training program which is managed by an instructor, coach, mentor or facilitator.

“ There are two basic forms: learners access real-time materials or (2) learner access delayed materials through threaded discussions or streamed audio or video.”

- Broadbent 2002

E-Learning and the Road to Success

• Performance support tools learning can be described as online material which help a user complete a task.

“This is an umbrella term for online materials that learners access to gain help in performing a task, Performance support tools are sometimes called electronic performance support systems, wizards, or online learning”.

- Broadbent 2002

E-Learning and the Road to Success

E-Learning and the Road to Success

• We need to connect to our students and connect them to their world.

• Using one or all of the types of E-learning can do this.

• WE NEED TO EMBRACE E-LEARNING!

• Use it to access current materials• Use it to integrate current events• Use it to broaden students’

experiences• Support language training with online

conversations• Use the net to engage niche interests

E-Learning and the Road to Success

Tools used for Successfull E-Learning

• Internet learning Applications• Blackboards• Lessons• References & Information• Online collaboration

• Skype• Projects

Tools used for Successfull E-Learning

“classroom technology and its effects contribute significantly to the self-esteem of students and result in increased classroom interaction”

• netTrekker.com, the latest version of search engines for schools. It supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources, organized by readability level to help every child achieve.

Virtual Training

• Visiblebody.com, a revolutionary 3D human anatomy visualization and learning tool. It is a Web-delivered application that offers an unparalleled understanding of human anatomy.

Real Lives - Educational Simulation Software

Interactive Simulations

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/

Interactive Dissection Simulations

Collaboration• Collaboration and teamwork • skills are the new math

• It’s much better to learn to negotiate collaboration with people you don’t know - different objectives, different values, different background

References

The Library of Congress has Image Libraries, Video Libraries, and Exhibitions onlinehttp://www.loc.gov/index.html

American Memory Collection contains historic media you can now review their collection of resources for American history (http://memory.loc.gov/)

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