Is there a pedagogy of e-learning?

Julia FotheringhamEdinburgh Napier UniversityLecturer – Academic Practice

Is there a distinctive e-pedagogy?

Review & Preview

• InspireED series so far …• What might be distinctive about an e-

pedagogy?• What do we need to know and be able to do

to design and deliver a curriculum of the future?

• Propose an extended pedagogy

Professor Peter Hartley

“should there be a pedagogy of e-learning? - there should not …”

Neil Winton

“There might be a pedagogy of e-learning …. I’m going to sit on the fence and get some splinters”

What features make e-learning so pedagogically important?

Ease of access to learning resources

Logical structuring’Dialogue

Ease of access to

experts and support

Logging of

activities

Links to

other

media

Feedback loops

Opportunity for personalisation

Learners in control

Stephenson, J (2002)

Staker’s Blended Learning Models

Staker, H (2011)

3 different teaching contexts

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Danger of educationalinertia

What are the new things that we need to know and be able to do?

So what is there to learn?a selection …

Digital literacy: what tools to use and whenHow to use them in a pedagogically effective

wayMotivating and managing without visual cuesTechnical fearlessness Accessibility

Social presence

Teaching

presenceCognitive presence

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Supporting discourse

Setting the climate

Selecting content

Garrison, Anderson and Archer (1999)

Cognitive presence

New online pedagogic approaches enable new roles for teachers

• Tutors - not sage, guide nor ghost

• Learners as co-tutors and co-learners

• New models of curriculum design

Dark side of new roles

Extended pedagogy

Curriculum innovation

Digital literacies

E-pedagogy

Traditional pedagogy

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References

• Staker, H (2011) The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning [online at http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf]

• Garrison, R., Anderson., and Archer, W. (1999). Critical Inquiry in a Text-based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education The Internet and Higher Education, Vol. 2 (2 - 3), pp 87 - 105.

References

• Mayes, T (2001) Learning technology and learning relationships. In Stephenson, J. Ed. Teaching and Learning Online: Pedagogies for New Technologies, London:Kogan Page Ltd: