Several Pedagogical Aspects of LCMS

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Several Pedagogical Aspects of LCMS

• Mojtaba Kianie

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Introduction to MOODLE

• One of the most important open source and free
  LCMS
• Over than 50,000 user registered on it
• Above 60 languages in 120 countries
• 4934 sites registered on it

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Introduction to MOODLE (Cont.)

• Can setup and install very easily
• All the interested people can join to the
  community of its developer

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Pedagogical Philosophy using MOODLE

• It is based on four foundations
• Social Constructionist Pedagogy
• Constructivism
• Constructionism
• Social Constructivism
• Connected and Separate Mode

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Constructivism

• People "construct" new knowledge as they interact
  with their environment
• if it's viable within their mental world may form
  new knowledge
• Refer to the old discussions about theory of
  truth
• According to this school knowledge is
  strengthened if some one uses it successfully in
  its wide environment

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Constructivism (Cont.)

• Theory of W. V. O. Quine about holism and
  pragmatism
• Knowledge consists none paradoxical theoretical
  box
• Mind is NOT just a memory bank
• Nor knowledge transmitted to someone else
• There is an interpretative process going on than
  transfer information from one brain to another

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Constructionism

• learning is particularly effective when, someone
  construct something for others to explain his/her
  experience
• if he/she were to try explaining what read to
  someone else in his/her own word, or (produce a
  slideshow) then he/she has a better understanding
  of subject matter

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Social Constructivism

• extent those ideas into a social group
• social groups collaboratively creating a small
  culture of shared knowledge
• they are able to shared words meaning in a
  specific area

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Social Constructivism (Cont.)

• famous philosopher of science "T. S. Kuhn" who
  introduces scientific paradigms
• People start to problem solving within the
  paradigm for example the knowledge about cup

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Social Constructivism (Cont.)

• All we know about "online course
• Is it only some content in the web?
• Is it only any activity and interaction between
  students and teacher?
• Or the more exact answer include the procedures
  within the groups
• most important problem facing e-learning is the
  size of these small cultures

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Connected and Separate Mode

• When student start to discussed all together
  which strategy is better?
• three modes may see
• Separated Mode
• Connected Mode
• Constructed Mode

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Separate Mode

• Students try to remains "objective and "factual"
  and tends to defend own ideas using logical
  structures
• Try to find a hole in his/her opponent's ideas

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Connected Mode

• Learner select the connected approach that
  accepts "subjective" mode
• Try to listen
• Question in an effort to understand the other
  point of view
• hermeneutical thinking in philosophy

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Constructed Mode

• Connected behavior within learning community is a
  very important and powerful stimulant for a
  learner

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Relation between Constructionist Pedagogy and
MOODLE Modules

• must pinpoint to changing the roles in online
  learning in MOODLE
• Stress on learner centric approach
• student must do more activities in online class
• Teacher becomes an expert moderator

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Relation between Constructionist Pedagogy and
MOODLE Module (Cont.)

• Students and teacher can use various MOODLE
  modules to implement social constructionist
  pedagogy
• forums,
• communication tools
• Learning Path or Lessons,
• Workshops, different Choices,
• SCORM packages support,
• various surveys,
• Wiki Pages,
• Group mode ( visible or separated ) in a online
  class
• Glossary

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Forums and social constructionist pedagogy

• Some one may read other students ideas from
  forums
• Try to understand their ideas based on his/her
  own prior knowledge, (using constructivism
  approach(
• Someone may explain his/her ideas in others own
  words? )Using constructionist approach(

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• Finally a small group tries to make a small
  culture in a specific area to share their
  knowledge (successfully using social
  constructivism (

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Chat, Message communication (Instance Messaging)
and S.C.P.

• Students try to communicate in a connected,
  separate or constructed mode.

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Workshops and S.C.P.

• All of students can assess other students' ideas
• Increase students ability to separate mode of
  discussions
• They can act as a listener and has a more
  empathic attitude to discussions.

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Choices and S.C.P.

• It is a quick vote on a direction for the course
  materials and to gather students consent
• teachers can gather better information of
  students' prior knowledge

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SCORM and S.C.P.

• It's a very useful way for teacher (and also
  students) to understand how much of content
  covered
• it's very important for a student to understand
  how much he/she can combine his/her prior
  knowledge with new ones (constructivism
  principle)
• Also it use score for each SCORM
• Transformability of contents between different
  LCMS

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Lessons or Learning Path and S.C.P

• Teacher start with an initial knowledge
  presentation
• Ask one or more questions from student
• Teachers can guess students' prior knowledge and
  arrange materials based on these prior knowledge

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Lessons or Learning Path and S.C.P. (Cont.)

• Students can themselves reflect on what they
  learn based on prior knowledge and coherence of
  it . (other aspect of constructivism)

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Survey and S.C.P.

• it is possibility to put different kind of survey
  to assessing what learners want to know and
  simulating learning process
• A good way for evaluating students'
  constructivist approach.

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Wiki and S.C.P.

• Is a Web pages that anyone can add to it
• It is a powerful tools to implement social
  constructivism

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Group mode and S.C.P.

• teachers can separate students to different
  groups
• This ability help to shape small culture between
  students and they understand the course in own
  group
• There are two different of this groups
• visible groups
• separated groups

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Assignment and S.C.P.

• Can use assignments that allow teachers to grade
  electronically submitted material
• Teachers and students have a good connection for
  course concepts
• teachers can assess student and guide them to
  better solutions.

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MOODLE and other e-Learning applications

• MOODLE and LAMS co-operation
• LAMS (Learning Activity Management System)
• It is a very powerful tools for changing from old
  pedagogy to modern one