Maximising Engagement in Online LearningKim Edwards

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Blended LearningMix of learning online or face-to-face

Professor Hattie (2020), “What teachers do matters, not the medium they do it in.”

Consider the tools available to provide insight into students’ learning and progress

• Where am I going?

• How am I going?

• Where to next?

Select the appropriate online tool to suit the learning• Document – lesson information (balance the acquisition of knowledge with deep

thinking tasks)

• Research (websites) - to acquire key information

• Discussion groups (forums) – pose challenging questions and track responses and see what students know and understand

• Communicate with classmates and teachers – eg direqt messages

• Collaborate – with their peers to evaluate, discuss, and work together eg google docs

• Reflections – complete reflections that identify their next learning steps

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Select the appropriate online tool to suit the learning

• Online submission tools to track student progress, provide feedback

for learning eg keep a personal blog or diary; reflection tool

• Blog - communicate and share information eg folios

• Share learning resources

• Individualise the learning

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Online Tools Enable Teachers to:

• provide transparency to the teaching, learning and assessment process

• track individual student progress • provide just in time 1 on 1 feedback in real-time to inform and improve

their learning• make student learning visible - view each student’s entire learning

pathway and with one click give them the information and skills they need

• optimize the social interaction aspects• provide seamless access for students and parents

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Where are they going?How are they going?Where to next?

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