eLearning: Teaching for Success: Reaching Every Learner

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e-Learning Teaching for SuccessReaching Every
Learner

• Dr. Jean Beaumont
• Chairman, e-Learning Jamaica

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This Presentation will Focus on

• Technology and a Knowledge-based society
• What is Learning?
• What do we know about brain-based studies and how
  people learn?
• What is e-Learning?
• What is e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam)?
• How can e-Learning contribute a knowledge-based
  society / economy?

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What is a Knowledge-Based Society?

• The fast development of the Information and
  Communication Technology (ICT) has brought about
  deep changes in our way of working and living,
• These changes signal new employment
  possibilities, fulfilling jobs, new tools for
  education and training, easier access to public
  services, increased inclusion of disadvantaged
  people or regions.
• The knowledge society and the learning society
  are inseparable one cannot be realised without
  the other.

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The Path to a Learning Society

• Requires
• An overall reformation of the educational
  landscape
• Making learning accessible anytime, anywhere and
  to everybody
• Wider access to alternative venues of education
• Establishment of Policies
• Financial support
• A new way of thinking!

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What is Learning?

• Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skill
  gained through education
• Learning is an ever ongoing process
• Gathering knowledge is not only a goal of
  education, it is a never ending experience
• All that can be known all the information,
  facts, truths, and principles learned throughout
  time

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What of The Brain?

• An organ of thought and feeling
• The center of the nervous system
• The mind somebody's intellectual ability
• Intelligence somebody's natural intelligence

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The Brain

• As long as the brain is not prohibited from
  fulfilling its normal process, learning will take
  place
• The Ministry of Educations focus is Every
  child can learn and every child must
• The reality is that everyone does learn.

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Education Transformation
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What is e-Learning?

• The ability to provide information to anyone,
  anytime, anywhere
• Learning using an electronic carrier that brings
  the right information at the right moment
• Up-to-date material is turned into learning
  material - linking material and the real world
• Tailoring instruction to the specific needs of
  learners

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What of the Internet?

• The Internet is a network that links computer
  networks all over the world by satellite and
  telephone, connecting users with service networks
  such as e-mail and the World Wide Web.
• The Internet has transformed the way education
  occurs and continuously creates new ways of
  learning.
• The Internet is the major tool for an e-learning
  environment

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e-Learning Jamaica
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What is e-learning Jamaica?

• It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of
  Industry, Commerce, and Technology and the
  Ministry of Education and Youth.
• It is being implemented by e-Learning Jamaica
  Company Ltd. which is a portfolio agency of the
  MICT.

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THE e-LEARNING PROJECT A Joint MITEC/MOEY Project

• Genesis of the Project
• Arose from a realization that an educated
  knowledge-based society would spur demand for
  Internet Services
• MITEC contributed to the education of Jamaicas
  citizenry through an e-learning project
• e-Learning Ja. Co. Ltd incorporated in July 2005
  to implementation of the e-learning project
• E-LJam Project is funded by Universal Access Fund
  from cess on international calls terminating in
  Jamaica

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THE e-LEARNING PROJECT A Joint MITEC/MOEY Project

• Purpose and Scope of Project
• To utilize current state-of-the-art ICTs in
  Jamaica's high schools, grades 7-11, to
• Improve the quality of education
• Enhance the learning experience
• Improve the level of passes in the CXC, CSEC exam
• 180 institutions
• 166 Public high schools
• 6 Public Special Schools
• 8 Colleges that train teachers that train
  teachers for the high schools

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Its Aim is to

• Significantly contribute to the national vision
  for an educated and knowledge-based people, in
  which there is equal opportunity for all.
• Bridge existing divisions level the field among
  high schools

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E-LJams Funding?

• Funding is from a cess/levy of the
  telecommunications sector and from the
  International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• The Universal Access Fund is responsible for
  collecting the funds from the telecommunications
  sector and providing 50M of these funds to
  e-Learning Jamaica for implementing the
  e-Learning project.

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The Main Components of e-LJam

• Technology Infrastructure
• Teacher Training
• Instructional Materials
• Continuous Assessment
• Remedial Education

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THE e-LEARNING PROJECT A Joint MITECT/MOEY
Project

• Technology Infrastructure
• for Storage / Dissemination/ Access
• Provision of ICT equipment and software to
  schools and teacher training colleges
• Establishment of a Central repository (CREM) to
  store, reproduce, continuously update, and
  distribute materials
• Ensure Broad Band Internet Access (provided by
  UAF)

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Technology Infrastructure in Schools Teachers
Colleges

• Desk tops
• Lap-tops
• Multimedia Projectors Screens
• Intelligent White Boards
• Document Cameras

• Digital Video Cameras
• DVD/CD Players
• Scanners
• Tape Recorder/Players
• Televisions
• VCR Players

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A New Age demands a New Paradigm
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THE e-LEARNING PROJECT A Joint MITEC/MOEY Project

• Teacher Training
• Principals Awareness and Orientation
• Training of Teachers and Subject Tutors in
  Teachers Colleges
• Modern methodologies for delivery, change
  management
• Training and Certification in ICT skills (to
  international standards)
• Integration of ICT into the teaching/learning
  process (certification to ISTE standards)

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THE e-LEARNING PROJECT A Joint MITEC/MOEY Project

• Instructional Materials
• Acquisition / Development of a comprehensive set
  of standard ICT-based instructional materials
  for teachers and students in 11 subject areas
• Teachers Instructional Materials (TIMs)
• Students Instructional Materials (SIMs)
• Interactive Educational Software ( for
  challenging topics)
• An Item Bank
• Video-taped Lecture Series

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THE e-LEARNING PROJECT A Joint MITEC/MOEY Project

• Continuous Assessment
• Introduction of standard continuous assessment
  procedures across the system at grades 7, 8 9
  (Grade 11 CSEC and Grade 10 CCSC)
• Remedial Support
• Collaborating with existing remedial
  interventions providing ICT-based materials and
  equipment and training of tutors and support
  personnel

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Remedial Programme

• Will target challenged students to ensure that
  every capable student maximizes his / her
  potential.
• Remedial programmes will begin at grade 7 -
  supported teaching/learning technology tools
• Stakeholder support will be solicited to assist
  with small group instruction

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E-LJams Data Driven Focus

• The tracking of student performance at each grade
  level - using computer software at the lower
  grades and CXC results at grade 11.
• Use data to inform and plan interventions to
  promote learning at the school level.

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Implementation Plan

• Year 1 - The Pilot / Research Phase 2006/07
• 28 High Schools (including a special needs and an
  Independent high school) in St. Thomas, St.
  Andrew, Kingston and St. Catherine, 3 Teacher
  Training Colleges
• Targeted 5 subjects at grades 10 11
• English Language
• Mathematics
• Resource Technology/Information Technology
• Chemistry
• Biology

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Pilot / Research Phase

• Will be a Testing platform for
• the project design
• the approach to implementation
• the best use of teaching and learning materials,
• Identifying the most effective technology
  applications and software.

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Phase 2

• Roll-Out Phase applying the most effective
  practices in the remaining High Schools
• It will incorporate all grades 7- 11
• The remaining subjects are
• Social Studies
• Integrated Science
• Spanish
• Geography
• Building Technology and Physics

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Forms of e-Learning

• Self-paced e-Learning using the Internet to
  participate in an on-line course achievable
  chunks self evaluation exercises
• Asynchronous collaborative e-Learning
  self-study lesson exercises assessment by
  posting questions and receiving responses
• Synchronous collaborative e-Learning students
  are part of a virtual classroom. They log on at a
  specific time and participate in online
  interactions.

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Content Curriculum Analysis

• It is important to be aware that e-Learning is
  not always appropriate. A major part of getting
  your Blend right is being able to categorise
  your curriculum into (roughly) one of the 3 areas
  as seen below.

Conventional
E-Learning
Blended
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Some Learning Theories that support e-Learning

• Constructivism
• Multiple Intelligences
• Brain-Based learning

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A New Age demands a New Paradigm
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A New Age demands a New Paradigm
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Let us commit to creating e-learning
environments that help students to be all they
can be in a Knowledge-Based Society.