Customising

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Customising
Programs
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Topics

• eLearning pedagogical approaches
• Learning design
• Developing an eLearning program
• Purpose
• Target group
• Outcomes
• Available resources
• Designing the content, delivery strategies and
  sequence
• Assessment strategies
• People available
• Example
• Activity 1
• Activity 2

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Pedagogical approaches

• Learning has moved for the theories of
  behaviourism to constructivism and connectivism
• Facilitating the learning experience
• Learning by doing

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Learning design

• Most important aspect
• Need to design learning experiences that
• Target group
• Content
• Use of technology
• Blended approach
• Resources
• Journal of Learning Design
• Constructivist Learning Design

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Learning design

• Sequence of collaborative of learning activities
• Can incorporate single learner content, but also
  collaborative tasks such as discussion, voting,
  small group debate, etc
• Can be stored, re-used, customised

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Examples

• Co-authoring
• Problem solving
• Research
• Community building
• Conversation
• Knowledge sharing
• Mentoring
• Peer review
• Reflection
• Resource making
• Resource sharing

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Designing an eLearning program

• Purpose
• Target group
• Outcomes
• Available resources
• Designing the content, delivery strategies and
  sequence
• Assessment strategies
• People available

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Example

• You have been approached to deliver the
• Certificate IV in Robot Making to industries
• across Australia in a flexible online format.
• You will be delivering to students in the
• Sydney area, Western Australia and the
• Northern Territory. There is also the potential
• to deliver this course overseas.

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Analysing the target audience

• age range 20-45 years
• gender mix 75 male, 35 female
• cultural backgrounds varied, 30 English is
  their second language
• ability/disability not significant
• access to technology users of technology i.e.
  computers and PDAs in the workshop
• educational experience Most have HSC
• related work experience many new to the industry
• full or part time study part time
• employment status mainly employed fulltime
• language, literacy and numeracy levels moderate
  level
• technology literacy very good

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Developing your program

• Analyse the content of the program
• Develop assessment tools.
• Scope available resources
• Chunk into relevant sequence (adhering to
  Training Package requirements) and choose
  appropriate technologies.

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Chunking and planning
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Chunking and planning
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Activity 1

• You are a teacher and you have a group of
• students who are 15 years old. They are not
• very motivated and are not interested in
• learning about energy conservation.
• Working in groups design a eLearning program
• designed to motivate and engage them

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Activity 2

• Working in groups identify how you may or may not
  use one or more of the
• following technologies in your industry areas
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Learning Management Systems
• Adobe Connect
• Video Conferencing
• Podcasting
• Vodcasting
• Mobile Learning
• Virtual worlds
• Post your answers to the LTM Blog ie a group
  answer to the question
• There will be 4 groups the Wikiers, Bloggers,
  Webconferecers, Mobilers.

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Summary

• eLearning pedagogical approaches
• Learning design
• Developing an eLearning program
• Purpose
• Target group
• Outcomes
• Available resources
• Designing the content, delivery strategies and
  sequence
• Assessment strategies
• People available
• Example
• Activity 1
• Activity 2