ATLC – 2010 Day 2 September 20, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackThis was a bit of a SHARE Project day as we had a paper in the morning and a poster at lunch.
Angela Trikic and I shared our presentation slot with some innovative projects. This included “DAT’s the way to do it? Medical students and Learning Technologists working together at Peninsula Medical School. Sally Holden, Russell O’Brien, Zac Gribble, Paul Russell, Carmen Mallett, Robin Oswald“ This considered the concept of Dr as teacher, which encourages students to understand the importance of the role of Drs as teachers and life long learners. The elearning support unit provided support and resources on the induction to this course, which included collaborations with students on the production of reusable learning objects. Another paper ”Personal inquiry in formal and informal settings: nQuire for scripting interactions Eileen Scanlon, Mike Sharples, Paul Mulholland, Members PI Team” provided an overview of some activities of the Personal Inquiry (PI) project which is funded by the ESRC/ EPSRC Technology Enhanced Learning programme, and is research jointly conducted between the University of Nottingham and the Open University in which young people aged 12 – 15 undertake evidence based inquiry learning across formal and informal settings. The aim was to increase engagement in science. The project created a tool to facilitate inquiry based learning activities. The final paper ”A Second Life pilot in two online M-level programmes Gabi Witthaus, Alejandro Armellini, Kelly Barklamb” looked at using second life to support work-based and distance learners, facilitated by Salmon’s 5 stage model and e-tivities. The study found that using a simulated oil rig to simulate an evacuation in SL “allowed students to take part in activities that they may later be required to carry out as practising Occupational Psychologists, such as planning work and developing training programmes.” The findings showed “that it is possible to create very flexible and cost-effective learning experiences using the affordances of SL. Used with well-structured tasks, and in combination with an asynchronous discussion forum, SL can add a useful dimension to distance courses.” Our presentation in this slot was well received and there was a lot of interest about incentives for engaging staff and encouraging them to publish as well as our approach to creative commons.
The final part of the morning was pretty active after my last minute decision to attend “Guerilla Narratives of Media” workshop, where participants in groups were asked to film ideas on their mobile devises on how to use media in teaching. The workshop was introduced with some ideas on how media can be used and then it was left up to the participants to come up with some ideas that were shared on YouTube and in a Wiki.
During lunch time I was able to provide some more information about our project to individuals that came to observe the excellent poster produced by Jon Fletcher within our project. Individual questions ranged from copyright, staff engagement and repository implementation.
After lunch I attended an endearing keynote The hole in the wall: self organising systems in education Sugata Mitra which provided observations of students self organised learning in India facilitated by a computer in wall. Mitra was able to evidence the educational progress of his young students over time that was encouraged by the interactions of their peers and some volunteer supporters, grandmother recruits in the UK. Mitra also showed a study he had carried out in Italy where students answered English questions with no English language knowledge and without the presence of a teacher just using the Internet.
The second day was concluded with some useful strategic presentations on e-learning implementation. “The programme-design sabbatical: an institutional strategy to mainstream technology-enhanced learning Colleen Connor” looked at Welsh initiative to mainstream technology enhance learning, lead by programme leaders, with a multi-disciplinary team based approach, by focusing on building the skills gap, encouraging staff engagement by routinely considering TEL in programme design, so that it was considered a normal process,. This was followed by “Infinite space: an innovative & collaborative e-learning approach to large cohort delivery David Fevyer, Brian James, Kathryn Cheshir” which focused on “the development of a multi-faceted e-learning resource to deliver a complex unit across multiple subject frameworks within the School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University (BU)”. The development of this academic practice unit was a collaborative process which included included academics, research students, librarians and learning technologists. Taking a flexible on demand approach it implemented a variety of technologies and techniques to support the unit including streaming/recorded lectures, with formative feedback provided by postgraduate students. The final paper for this session “Captain, navigator, surgeon and cook: balancing leadership and support in educational change management – a case study from legal education Jonathan Powles, Aliya Steed“ looked at the transformation of an online graduate diploma in legal practice to “a group-based transactional and simulated learning” which “required a significant shift in philosophy, as well as practical changes, which affected almost every staff member in the organisation.” The change was facilitated by a team who had no subject specialism but had skills in education design and project management.
It looks like a major theme for the day was collaborative and multi-disciplinary team approaches to project delivery
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