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Title III Presentation. Annie Olson October 30, 2007. $2500 Grant. Travel to Melbourne, Australia Attendance at e-Learning Symposium, held at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology December 3-5, 2006. e-Learning Symposium.
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Title III Presentation Annie Olson October 30, 2007
$2500 Grant • Travel to Melbourne, Australia • Attendance at e-Learning Symposium, held at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology • December 3-5, 2006
e-Learning Symposium • Sponsoring organization, Common Ground, focuses on learning in both face-to-face and online formats. • International Representation • Primarily from Australia, New Zealand, and Tazmania • Also from the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore, Turkey, Korea, and Afghanistan
Keynote Speakers • Colin Lankshear--prolific author in key contemporary works on online and other literacies • Prof. Ian W. Gibson--a leading developer of curriculum and teacher education initiatives with global contexts • Dr. Michelle Selinger--a global education strategist for Cisco corporation who specializes in technology education for emerging and developing countries • Prof. Mary Kalantzis--Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Session “Streams” • Pedagogies and Teaching Practices • Research Approaches and Results • Learning Technologies: What They Do and How They Work • Managing and Leading Educational Change • Measuring Learning Outcomes
Why Australia? • Technology from a student perspective • Two questions: • Does my research focus fit into the larger picture of what others are thinking and doing? • Is my focus neither redundant to what is being done nor so far out of the picture as to be irrelevant?
Your Turn • What are the three most significant ways you use technology in your teaching? • What is most innovative about these uses of technology?
Encouragement—and Challenge • LeTourneau University is on the right track in our use with technology. • We still face the same problems and challenges others face in using technology effectively. • We have much to learn.
Global Problems—Online Learning • Attrition in online courses • Why educate online? • Competition, supply-demand economy • Accommodate student needs, preferences • Accommodate faculty needs, preferences
Global Problems--Technology • Technology attracts students • Institutional pressure • Transportation vs. transformation • Roadmaps from three important contemporary theorists
James Paul Gee • discourse vs. Discourse • “Language in use . . .how language is used on-site to enact activities and identities” • “‘other stuff’—ways of acting, interacting, feeling, believing, valuing, and using various sorts of objects, symbols, tools, and technologies to recognize yourself and others as meaning and meaningful in certain ways . . . ways of being in the world”
Colin Lankshear andMichelle Knobel • Insiders and Outsiders • (Based on John Perry Barlow’s terms) • “natives,” those who have “‘been born and grown up’ in the space of ‘the Internet, virtual concepts and the IT world generally’” • “immigrants,” who have “migrated to this space”
New Literacies for New Learning Spaces • Game theory—more than 20 higher order learning principles identified by Gee • Discourse analysis—Re-inventing Bartholomae • Learning models—what does it mean to learn? • Teaching models—what does it mean to teach?
Research Goal • “No one had really identified the problem that e-learning was expected to solve” --Robert Zemsky Chairman, Learning Alliance for Higher Education • What are the questions we need to be asking of ourselves and of our students?
