Teaching in the Digital Age

Teaching and media selection

Importance

The multimedia's design must lead to effective teaching.

Principles

Keep it simple

One idea at a time

Keep it short

Fragments instead of long-lasting videos

Keep it real

Decision making and problem solving

Keep it good

Quality of material

Discriminators in media selection

Weak discriminator: Teaching effectiveness of multimedia

Strong discrimination: Student's access and ease to use multimedia.

Aspects to consider

Individual differences between learners

Complexity of context

Desired learning outcomes

DIFFERENCES IN HOW STUDENTS LEARN Information We Need by Rudolf

1. Must know what the policy of the institution is regarding access issues and how that can affect SS who dont have have accesss to the selected technology.

2. Must consider the Demographics pertaining to the SS that I am going to teach in order to ascertain the appropriateness of the technology to be used.

3. When some tasks are to be done off-campus, determine if SS will have a regular and reliable access to that technology.

4. When some tasks are to be done on campus, what should the institutaions policies be that regulare the SS access to devices in class?

5. What are my expectations about the assumed skills that my SS are to have at the start of the program?

6. If I am going to make it mandatory for my SS to pay for their own access to technology, will the teaching approach justify such expenses?

7. What are the previous experiences and attitudes that my SS will probably bring to the program. How likely are those pre notions to be useful and suitable?

Main topic

Students

The info the teacher needs about his students. In order to make the best decisions regarding which media and technology to choose, we must know all there is to know about our students.

Must know the policy of the institution regarding the issue of access so that proper support can be given to SS who dont have access to that selected technology.

Subtopic

Networking
by Roque

Social Media

affects

Course Design in 5 ways

Suplementing "Standard"

e.g. Chat Inside MOODLE

e.g. Chat Inside MOODLE

Exclusive Social Media

Wordpress, YouTube, Podcast

Wordpress, YouTube, Podcast

Student Generated Content

Self-Managed Groups

cMOOC, Blogs, webinars, wikis

cMOOC, Blogs, webinars, wikis

Subtopic

Instructor-Led Open Resources

xMOOC

xMOOC

Security and Privacy

Privacy and security when teaching

Private place to work online

Protect students from online harassment or bullying

A strictly controlled environment to manage privacy

Communications shall be managed 'in-house'

Cloud based services

Massive servers

Unknown location

Contract agreements

Social media companies are exclusively based in the US

Privacy is different from security

Clear set of policies

The need for balance

Public information has more risk

Teaching is open and public

Some areas should be carried behind closed doors

Students by karina

Subtema

Student demographics

Diverse range of students in higher education is a fundamental change

Increasing diversity of students requires approaches if their proficiency is to be achieved.

Technology and media depend on the student's needs when making decisions.

Main topic

Cost by Marcela

Discriminator affecting technology

Cost reduction of media distribution

Rapid consumers development

compression of media

Media increasing

Main topic

designed Interactivity

It is explicity designed

encourage interaction

instructors have to intervene

design activities

provide feedback

Eg. web pages

5. Interaction

Kinds of interaction

learners & materials

reflective interaction

students & teachers

higher learning outcomes

students & students

students are together in groups

Ease of use

Computer and information literacy

Basic literacy skills on using the technological tools

Orientation

Training on the software that will be used

Interface Design

Friendly and intuitive

Reliability

Use reliable softwares

User-generated interaction

focused on explicit interaction

it leads user to interact voluntarity

Based on constructivism approach

No intervention of teachers

Organizational Issues by Rodrigo

Institutions do no support the use of technology

Teachers do not receive training

Institutions do not adjust the environment for technology

Institutions cannot afford new technologies

Media Interaction Characteristics

Subtopic

Inherent interaction

Eg. adaptive learnining

based on behaviourist approach

Control learners repond