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Unit 5: 5.2 Professions and professional values
Saturday, 7 Nov 2009, 13:27
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Warrior 2002: my 3 defenitions can be found here
Unit 5: 5.1 eLearning and professional development
Saturday, 7 Nov 2009, 09:49
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You find my overview of the resources and analysed websites here
Eugene
Unit 3: 3.4 My PDP Grid
Monday, 19 Oct 2009, 20:07
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Here is my PDP Grid. After filling in this table I have discovered that the e-learning area is quite new for me and although I consider myself tech savvy, I feel quite a newbie on the e-learning front. I have specific ideas in my head but it somehow doesn’t come out...yet!
Cheers, Eugene
Unit 1: What is e-learning?
Saturday, 5 Sept 2009, 15:20
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Without any prejudice, I want to try to describe what I understand e-learning to be.
In H800 we had to describe "learning". We came to the consensus that learning was mainly gaining knowledge in various ways. If I think about e-learning, the word "learning" is a key factor. The letter "e" stands for electronic. So e-learning should be described as gaining knowledge electronically. Learning through technology inside and outside a classroom. I could live with that description.
According to messages on the e-learning centre (www.e-learningcentre.co.uk) e-learning has evolved as well and one could speak nowadays of e-learning 2.0
It all sounds very interesting. Unit 1 is about to begin and maybe by the end of the course I'll want to change my description. It's pretty likely that I will.
Cheers,
Eugene
Week 23: Adaptive & Non Adaptive Systems
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 15:32
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Now search for additional terms that might be relevant and add them to the list, again in chronological order.
I've found an interesting article written by Goran Shimic in 2008. It helped me clarify the various terminology in which I was interested after week 21 & 22
LMS: Learning Management System
Virtual Learning Environment:
Blackboard, Moodle, StudyWiz etc: a software system designed to help teachers by facilitating the management of educational courses for their students, especially by helping teachers and learners with course administration. The system can often track the learners' progress, which can be monitored by both teachers and learners.
Personal Learning Environment:
Blog, Twitter, Facebook: a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals, manage their learning, manage both content and process, and communicate with others in the process of learning.
ILMS: The intelligent learning management systems (ILMS) become a new way to integrate the benefits of the different e-learning systems. The ILMS represent an effort to associate benefits of adaptive and non-adaptive systems.
For example: Unis Multitutor
There are two main groups of the e-learning systems which are the most frequently used on the Web:
- adaptive systems: adaptive hypermedia (AH), intelligent tutoring systems (ITS)
- non-adaptive systems (learning management systems, or LMS).
Non Adaptive E-learning systems: LMS
The learning management systems (LMS) are integrated systems that support teachers’ and students’ needs. The LMS provide a complete platform in the areas of logging, assessing, planning, delivering contents, managing records, and reporting. They improve both self-paced and instructor-led learning processes.
An LMS has 3 functions:
Teacher functions (creating, describing, and publishing the learning resources, organizing resources in the courses/lessons/tests/exams, collaborating with the other teachers and learners, monitoring learners’ progressions, etc.).
Learner functions (using of a learning/test materials, collaborating with the other learners and teachers, etc.).
Administration functions (managing of overall system data).
Adaptive E-learning systems: AEH & ITS
AEH: Adaptive Education Hypermedia: these systems are focused on non-linear and adaptable structure of the educational contents. The AEH contains various modules: adaption, domain, leaner and pedagocial.
It provides the user easy navigation, referencing and global view of the contents.
For example: InterBook (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~plb/InterBook.html)
ITS: These systems are focused on a specific domain and on the learning process (pedagogy, user modelling, and user evaluation). While the AH systems are focused on the content design, representation, and adaptation, the main task of the ITS is tutoring the learner.
There are five modules: the student model, the domain knowledge, the pedagogical module, the expert model, and the communication model Most ITS are focused on problem-based learning.
Week 23: activity 1 Terms Used in TEL
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 14:56
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I decided to post a part of activity 1 in my Blog. The terminology of TEL is posted in our group wiki otherwise the posting in the Wiki would have been, in my opinion, too long.
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- What do terms like computer-assisted learning mean to you?
CA-learning means to me that I learn with the computer as a tool to assist me in my learning. The literal meaning basically. The computer helps me to learn.
For example: I use my computer for writing a document, I use my computer for research for an assignment. My course content is in books and I attend face-to-face courses. - Is this different from e-learning or technology-enhanced learning?
In my opinion it is. I see TEL or e-learning more as terminology in which the computer plays a bigger role. It replaces some key features like books, classrooms and tutors. CA-leaning is for me a level beneath all of this: the computer is just a tool to help me. - If these terms do differ, is it just in theory definition or do they carry a broader metaphorical meaning?
E-learning and TEL carries in my opinion a broader metaphorical meaning. E-learning implies to me that learning is done solely with the computer. TEL implies to me that the computer takes over specific roles in the learning process (classroom and tutor roles for example) - If the terms do carry such implied meanings, what are they
For me the following terms have the following meaning:
CA-learning: learning in a traditional way (classrooms, face-to face tutorials) with the computer as an aid.
E-learning: learning done through the computer only, replacing tradition pedagogical tools like books and libraries
TEL:an overarching metaphor. A step further than e-learning: use of social websites and other new technologies (web 2.0) to enhance learning, the use of micro-blogging to communicate and learn as well
and how might they affect the way you think about the area you are studying?
The way I study is solely through the computer. I don't attend to face-to-face tutorials and all my course content is online. I access this content through a VLE and I use my PLE for learning. The computer has taken over the role of the classroom, content and the way I communicate with other students.
I conclude that I am doing an E-learning course with TEL tools (wiki, blog, Twitter).
It has not affected the way I think regarding the area I study. However it made me realise that different terminology can cause confusion: web 2.0, TEL, Elearning, VLE, PLE, LMS, ILMS. It is therefore useful for me that I can describe the various terms and make a clear distinction in the meaning between those terms.
- What do terms like computer-assisted learning mean to you?
Cheers Eugene
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