Educational Technology Essentials at VIU

Michael PaskeviciusLearning Technologies Application Developer

Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning

What is your experience in integrating technology into teaching and learning?

by dkscully

Basic principles of Educational Technology at VIU

Unified login

Integration

Mobile accessibility

Security and confidentiality

Compliance with FIPPA

Technical and pedagogical

support

Educational technology tools at VIU

VIULearn – a collection of tools

VIUTube – video/audio streaming engine

Blogs – faculty and student blogging service

Collaborate – online meeting spaces

Clickers – classroom response system

Open educational resources (OER) directory

TECHNOLOGICAL AFFORDANCES

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• Secure spaces for interaction with class groups

• Class lists created from student information system

• Deliver content, media, readings, news, deadlines

• Engage in discussions • Accept student assignment

submissions• Maintain gradebooks • ePortfolios• Enable asynchronous connections to

your class

https://d2l.viu.ca/

• Allows faculty and students to upload and share video/audio on the internet

• Record video directly from webcam

• Media is stored on campus • Videos private by default • Embed video on websites, D2L

or social media

https://viutube.viu.ca/

• Faculty and students can easily set up blogs and websites

• Blogs can be used to ‘tie the web together’

• Invite external social participation • Provide reflective

spaces/eportfolios• Develop media/technical literacies

Faculty blogs: http://wordpress.viu.ca/Student blogs: http://studentblogs.viu.ca/

• Synchronous voice and video communication

• Collaborative whiteboard• Conduct presentations • Share documents• Share applications• Conduct polls • Text chat

https://mediawiki.viu.ca/wiki/Collaborate_Web_Conferencing

Classroom Response Systems

• Take anonymous polls • Display polling results

immediately to participants

https://mediawiki.viu.ca/wiki/Tablets,_Recording_Devices_and_Hardware#Classroom_Response_Systems

• A growing body of openly licensed educational content available on the internet

• No need to reinvent the wheel when designing new curriculum

• Less often do we need to breach copyright

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DESIGNING FOR LEARNING

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Instructional Strategies (e.g., collaboration,

articulation,

reflection, exploration, problem solving)

Learning Technologies

(e.g., asynchronous & synchronous communication tools, blogs, video, LMS)

Pedagogical Models (e.g. open/flexible learning, distributed learning, social constructivism, knowledge building communities, peer to

peer learning)

eLearning

Dabbagh, N. (2005). Pedagogical models for E-Learning: A theory-based design framework.International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 1(1),25-44 http://www.learningdomain.com/MEdHOME/WEB-BASED/Pedagogy2.pdf

Theory-based Design Framework for eLearning

Start here!

Considering Social and Cultural Context

Universal Design

Accessibility

Appropriate technologies

Access to prerequisite tools and resources

Language and terminology

Prior learning and experience

Roles and responsibilities

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Instructional examples

• An instructor designs a learning activity which will require them to create an article in their academic discipline which will be reviewed and edited by two peers. The instructor wants the students’ to be able to see the edits of their work. The instructional goal to is encourage writing about the subject matter as well as improve writing and editing skills.

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Instructional examples

• An instructor notes that students consistently struggle with a given topic or concept in their course. The instructor decides to record short videos which explain and demonstrate the concept which can be accessed at any time and replayed as needed.

http://wordpress.viu.ca/key2chem/category/video-tutorials/

Instructional examples

• An instructor wants to develop students’ public speaking ability but time in class for student presentation is not available. The instructor gets students to film themselves making the presentations which are then viewed by the instructor on VIUTube.

Coming soon

• Wikis – collaborative documents• Lecture casting – recording of classroom

lectures • Mobile collaboration – connecting multiple

devices for real time collaboration • VIU Communities - Private social networks,

CoP’s

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Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Learning Technologies Application DeveloperCentre for Innovation and Excellence in Learningmichael.paskevicus@viu.ca

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Blog: http://wordpress.viu.ca/edtechdev/

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