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Moving Learning Online (Session 3) The pedagogy of online learning

Vinay Markandya – JISC RSC South East

Christopher Hill – JISC RSC East Midlands

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The Moving Learning Online Series

Series aim - to help you answer the question…How can online delivery help us meet

our strategic and operational objectives?

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Session Aims

This session aims to:

examine how online delivery enhances learning

explore the Common Inspection Framework and its basis in learning styles as a quality framework for effective online delivery

give a pedagogically sound guide to key choices you make when implementing online learning

The session structure matches these aims

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How does online learning enhance delivery?

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Does online learning enhance delivery?

• Technology makes teachers think about teaching and delivery

• Online learning can be collaborative, directed, anytime, anyplace, not constricted by space and wanted by students/motivationally strong

• Online learning gives students the opportunity to engage with, participate in and control their own learning experiences

• Online learning is digitally secure and can be used time and again either unchanged or modified for a new audience

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The CIF as a framework for moving learning online – based on learning styles

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Can the Common Inspection Framework be a framework for online learning?

Three Key Questions in the CIF with ten quality indicators:-

1.Outcomes for learners: i. standards ii. wellbeing

2.Provision: i. learning experiencesii. teachingiii. care & supportiv. learning environment

3.Leadership:i. managementii. partnershipsiii. quality iv. resources

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Why should we follow learning styles?

1. Proven effect on retention, achievement & motivation

2. Students score higher on tests, have better attitudes, and are more efficient in learning in own preferred styles

3. Advantage to teach and test students in their preferred styles

4. Learning styles will vary amongst any group/s of students

5. So better to incorporate as many learning styles as possible in a learning experience

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Making changes that are beneficial to every learning style:

Changes can be strategic or discrete, including:

1.Room re-design

2.Small group activities

3.Contract Activity Packages

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1. Room Re-design

• Using dividers to create discrete areas for teaching & independent learning in a physical classroom.

• Clearing the floor area and/or using flexible furniture solutions

• Creating virtual classrooms where digital capture and collaborative work are additional features

• Incorporating student ideas/thoughts into the re-design

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2. Small Group Activities

• Physical open & closed pairs

• Physical circle of knowledge

• Virtual collaboration using either/both of above

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3. Contract Activity Packages

• clear statement of what the students needs to learn

• multisensory resources (auditory, visual, tactile, kinesthetic etc) that teach the required information

• activities through which the newly-mastered information can be used creatively

• the sharing of creative projects within small groups of classmates

• at least 3 small-group techniques

• a pre-test, a self-test and a post-test

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Multi-sensory resources

• Visual: viewing / reviewing text, images, icons and demos virtually.

• Auditory: incorporating small-group discussion, using chat rooms & discussion

boards, listening to books on podcasts, watching videos, recording reports digitally.

• Tactile/ kinesthetic/ behavioural perspectives: providing hands-on activities, having frequent breaks to allow movement, using visual aids and objects in the lesson, using role play & digital simulation, engaging in field trips and application to on-the-job settings.

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Making sound pedagogical choices when

you choose online learning

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How does online learning fit with effective pedagogy?

Online learning:- • doesn’t change our understanding of effective learning:

complete the sentence “people learn best when …”• fits within our understanding of learning

o social constructivist - developing understanding through discussion/interaction

o deep and surface learning – remembering or higher level cognitive skills

• adds more tools to the teaching and learning toolkit that teachers can draw on

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How does online learning fit with pedagogies?

Phil Race Ripples in a pond model

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How does online learning meet individual learning needs?

Online learning is the only practical way to achieve differentiation when teacher time is restricted

Learners:• start from different places• learn at different rates• have different attitudes and values• have different learning styles and preferences• have different strengths - multiple intelligences• need different assistive technologies

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What parts of the curriculum are best suited to online learning?

• What’s the best blend of online and face to face learning?• Who should do it?• How do we choose the online elements?

• what do learners tell us?• what do we have already that works?• what do we do least well?• what would give most benefit to learners?• what would free up the most tutor time to concentrate

on individuals

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What Next?

Visit the Moodle course that supports this series at:http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/

Book to attend the next session: Session 4: Strategic components of increased efficiency, consistency and compliancehttp://www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk/events/index.html

Talk to your RSC about the support available to help your strategic planning to make moving learning online a reality

JISC RSC East Midlands support@rsc-em.ac.uk JISC RSC South East support@rsc-southeast.ac.uk

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