I am nervous yet excited... Hope we all survive and pass this course!!
I have been looking over Moodle and the content of this course and have come across some interesting information....
E. Learning - Equity
E.Learning needs to be equitable in schools and not be disadvantageous to any students and teachers need to embrace this concept and promote it to all children no matter what their background is.
Embracing e learning in Australian Schools (Spender & Stewart, 2002)
Engagement Theory
Students need to be engaged in their (ICT) learning environment as they need to be able to relate to real world problems and situations. Students need to be able to work in small teams and create solutions. The difference is that with (ICT) the solution is donated back to the real world.
Kearsley and Shneiderman (1998)
ICT Learning Design
This project focuses on learning designs implemented with the use of Information and Communication
Technologies. Oliver (1999) argues that a learning design comprises the following key elements:
•Tasks that learners are required to do.
•Resources that support learners to conduct the task.
•Support mechanisms that exist from a teacher implementing it.
Learning designs refer to a variety of ways of designing student learning experiences, that is, a sequence of types of activities and interactions.
Learning designs may be at the level of a subject, or subject components. A learning design can be considered the framework that supports student learning experiences.
Based on Oliver, R. (1999). Exploring strategies for online teaching and learning. Distance Education, 20(2), 240-254.
Thus the term learning design is used by this project to describe the various frameworks that can be used to guide the design and choice of these three elements in the development of a learning experience for students, particularly ICT-mediated learning experiences.
So how do we as teachers create engaging, authentic learning experience using ICT? What pedagocial tools will we use?
That is what my blog is about... all the different E.Learning tools that we teachers can use in our classroom to create a meaningful learning journey for our students.
Till next time... Happy blogging!
