sharing success factors for online independent learning activities
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Sharing success factors for online independent learning activities
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• Background• The matrix & mapped examples• Categorised support mechanisms• Next steps
Background - staff questions and aims
• Common questions– “Show me what’s possible”– “What do I need to do to make it work”?
• Aims– Highlight transferrable exemplars and approaches– Balance between ownership and simplicity;
• Somewhere between “unsupportive theoretical maps” and “restrictive… black boxes”
– Create accessible, visual representation to support staff
Background – learning design modelIndividual
Social
Non-reflection
Reflection
Experience
Information
G.Conole et al / Computers and Education 43 (2004) 17-33
Independent learning activitiesIndividual
Social
Personal reflection / research:Individual reflective blogging /
Dissertation research
Individual practice:Self-assessment with feedback
Formative quizzes / screencast worked solutions
Group creative / problem solving:Student Law Firms (PBL), Primary text
commentary / creation
Collaborative “fact finding” / analysis:Provided data analysis exercises /
Collaborative synthesis of primary reading for online text book
DirectedAutonomous
Individual
Social
Autonomous Directed
Developing community of practice (Models of writing)
Individual
Social
Autonomous Directed
Primary text commentary / creation (Futurism)
Developing community of practice
Individual
Social
Autonomous Directed
Primary text commentary / creation
Developing community of practice
Data analysis and presentation (Social Interaction & Conversational Analysis)
Individual
Social
Autonomous Directed
• Regular feedback• Maintain individual motivation• Clear instructions and rationale• Short tasks for measurable skills
development• Scaffold to greater autonomy
• Explicit benefit from group element• Consider group dynamics • Feedback through social aspect
• Clearly defined parameters and instruction
• Direction to appropriate resources• Clear direction to help and support• Structure / agreed milestones for
larger projects
• Consider group dynamics / roles• Common understanding of end
product• Engagement with marking criteria
Developing the matrix
• Self access resource – Integrate with online case studies for illustration– Integrate with tools guide for implementation
• Questions around the model– Is this clear, accessible and valid?– Is this undermined by fluidity?– Additional info to include?