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Copied from a presentation given at a CINCH workgroup meeting on 25th February 2010 given by Jon Petter Omtvedt
Contents
Slide 1: E-learning - what is it?
- Publishing compendia and exercises on web-pages (WEB 1.0) is not e-learning. It’s simply an effective tool to help do things the old way.
- E-learning is using computer tools to encourage the student to actively participate in the learning process, e.g. by discussion forums, blogs, simulations, etc. (WEB 2.0).
- E-learning is also packages which present a certain topic (text, graphs, video, animation), with e.g. self-check questions and exercises to help the student to verify that the subject is understood.
- New ways of distribution information, like podcasts, are sometimes also regarded as e-learning – but is it really?
Slide 2: Wikis
- A database in which all sorts of teaching aids can be included in a systematic way.
- Active student participation can be implemented, e.g. by including reports and results from student projects.
- Two way communication with students (WEB 2.0) can be included – if wanted. I.e. can be used as a tool to create E-learning.
Slide 3: The Ultimate Text Boox?
- For most courses it is difficult to find the “ideal course book”.
- Based on a wiki database, a virtual course book can be created which only contains what is needed/wanted.
- If something is not found in the database the teacher can add it (as traditionally done by writing a compendium to cover what is not in the course book).
- To the student it will look as an integrated part of the (wiki) course book.
- Teachers in other courses, universities or whatever will immediately benefit from the newly added material and can include it in their own courses.
Slide 4: The Ultimate Text Boox? (II)
- Unlike a printed course book,
- the wiki can be updated in “real time”.
- can include discussion forums, blogs, video, laboratory exercises (suited to the available labs at a given institution), simulations and any form of e-learning tool available.
- will serve as a highly integrated and structured learning platform (if set up right!).
- It is free.
- results from student work, previous and current, can be integrated.