Opportunities for Adult Learners Through Integrated E-Learning

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Opportunities for Adult Learners Through
Integrated E-Learning 

• Nantha Kumar Subramaniam
• Mohammed Yusoff
• Maheswari Kandasamy
• Open University Malaysia

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Delivery of Lifelong learning at OUM
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Integrated e-learning
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• .What to do?
• ..How to do it?

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Integrated e-learning..How to do it?

• Many experts do not believe that a unilateral
  approach of using technology to support learning
  will be successful.
• Instead, based on our own experience conducting
  online courses for almost 10 years and work done
  by Jochems et al. (2003) and Garrison et al.
  (2001), integrated e-learning will be effective
  if it is implemented in an integrated manner that
  incorporates the following SIX critical
  principles to empower the learners learning
  process

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Six principles..

• Integrated e-learning has to take pedagogical and
  technical aspects into account
• E-Learning has to be learner-centered whereby
  learners would be the primary focus of attention
  as opposed to the traditional emphasis on the
  instructors
• The best approach to teaching and learning is the
  bi-instructional method where e-learning is
  utilized for independent study to support
  self-managed learning (SML) and indirect
  instruction to support peer collaboration,
  interaction and eliminate isolation.

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Six principles (ctd)

• Assessment must become an integral part of
  e-learning so that the learners know their
  ranking and ways to improve it.
• A successful online learning must support have
  instructor presence, social presence and
  cognitive presence as proposed in the Community
  of Inquiry (CoI) model
• A successful online learning must support
  learner-learner, learner-instructor and
  learner-content interactions.

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Conceptual Framework
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iBook The iBook is the online module which is
more engaging and interactive
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iForum Here, the instructor will act as the
formal authority for this subject by answering
the learners questions in the forum
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iLecture iLecture will enable the learners to
learn from subjects matter experts but at their
own leisure
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iTutorial The iTutorial will enable the
learners to have a feel of an actual classroom
without actually having to attend one.
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cForumCollaborative Learning among learners
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Smart ForumComputer monitored collaborative
learning
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iActivityFlash-based assessment which requires
the learners to do some activities
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Self AssessmentSelf assessment is provided in
the form of Multiple Choice Questions with
automated feedback
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iHelpiHelp will provide possible answers for the
learners queries on the subject matter in the
form of FaQs
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• .putting all the pieces together

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Main page of myVLE
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Implementation
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Integration of the materials
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Tracking System
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• What the students say..

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Learners EvaluationLikert scale of 1 (strong
disagree) to 5 (strongly agree)

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Whats next

• Integrated e-learning? Virtual Classroom
• Inclusion of Google apps
• Intelligent Question Answering System with
  diagnostic capabilities for immediate feedback

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Integrated e-learning The way forward
Traditional class e-Learning
class
Figure A
Figure B
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Conclusion

• Technology is an important component in LLL
  delivery
• There is no one-fit-all kind of solution when
  comes to technology
• The one presented is one of the possible model
  using myVLE (OUMs LMS)
• Definitely the model need to be further refined
  so that e-learning becomes the primary source for
  learning and subsequently classroom learning can
  be eliminated.

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• Thank you