Learning Outcomes

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Search the Internet for other tools related to pedagogy and technology
Articulate what pedagogy you prefer to use
Determine whether the pedagogy will work using a variety of Internet delivery techniques

"The pedagogy must drive the choice of instructional technology, not the other way around." - - Chizmar and Williams (1997)

Restructured Settings

In the NetTel definition of eLearning one of the embedded meanings is effective teaching that requires moving away from traditional settings to a restructured setting. The Table below (based on Brown 1992) summarizes the differences between traditional and restructured education settings.

Check out the New Learning Environments in the Link to Learn Professional Development prepared by the Commonwealth of Philadephia. Highlighted are several atrributes of meaningful and engaging learning environments that technology can assist in creating as identified by Dr. David Jonassen <http://205.146.39.13/lrn_newlearning.html>.

Pedagogy

Hofn F. Chizmar and David B. Williams (1997) <http://www.arts.ilstu.edu/CAUSE/webteach.html> indicate that any instructor who contemplates teaching an Internet enhanced course must answer the very same two questions that any instructor must address:

What pedagogy should I use?

Will the pedagogy work over the Internet using a variety of Internet delivery techniques?

Chickering and Ehrman (1987) <http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html> offer ways to implement the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education using technology as lever. These principles which summarize decades of research on undergraduate teaching and learning are as follows:

• good practice encourages contacts between students and faculty
• good practice develops reciprocity and cooperation among students
• good practice uses active learning techniques
• good practice gives prompt feedback
• good practice emphasizes time on task
• good practice communicates high expectations
• good practice respects diverse talents and ways of learning.
  

The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCRTEC) has put together a Learning with Technology Profile Tool. The tool helps instructors compare current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. The tool can be downloaded from http://www.ncrtec.org/capacity/profile/profile.htm.

New pedagogical practices are likely to emerge from web-based discussion forums (Teaching and Learning Methods and Strategies.) By using an online forum:

Students

• develop own theories about course materials
• generate class materials
• lead discussion
• evaluate peer work
• collaborate to build knowledge

Instructors

• act as resource during class exploration and knowledge building
• participate in discussion as subject matter expert student
• model effective learning by being an active learner
• encourage students to build knowledge together, not by memorizing class materials or
• instructor's lecture
• use student work to develop course resources and materials
• provide clear expectations for student leaders

Read

1. Go to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Database <http://www.eric.ed.gov/> and search for pedagogy and the Internet.
   
2. Go to the "Instructional module on project-based learning" http://www.glef.org/PBL/resources.html and download the powerpoint presentation about project-based learning. Be sure to read the speaker notes.

Discuss

1. Meet with other learners who are enrolled in this course.
   
2. Discuss the applicability of project-based learning to your own situation.
   
3. Report back on the outcomes of your face to face discussion by posting it on the discussion forum.
   
4. Comment on 1-2 of the postings from the other learners.

Search

1. Using your favorite seach engine, locate 2 additional online resources that explain the combination of pedagogy and technology
2. Be ready to explain what you liked or did not like about the additional resources you have located.

Record

1. Post a short summary of a couple of online resources that you have located from the ERIC database or from the use of another search engine.
   
2. Reflect on the plusses and minuses of combining pedagogy with technology.

Create

1. Add 2 few more slides to your powerpoint presentation (which you have started after completing Lesson 1) that explain what you consider the best pedagogy to use in eLearning given your local context.
   

Learning Assessment

1) Assess yourself by reflecting on the following:

• Articulate what pedagogy you prefer to use
• Determine whether the pedagogy will work using a variety of Internet delivery techniques

2) Points towards final grade

• Participation in the discussion forum = 1 point
• Quality of participation in the discussion forum = 2 points
  
• Powerpoint slides = 1 point