Wiki: Connectivism in a NLE - Wiki: Connectivism in a NLE - 3 views
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Chih-Hsiung Tu on 19 Apr 10Common Question I: NLE Strategies Applied Please discuss three most important strategies of NLE in your unit. Please be sure to justify why they are effective NLE strategies and how you assess them. Remember NLE strategies are not just your contents or "technologies," such as wiki, Blog, Twitter etc. It is integrated soft technologies. Hint: Four components of technology integrations: Content; Technology; Instructional Strategies; Assessment.
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Janet Coolman on 22 Apr 10Three of the most important strategies of NLE in my unit included social interaction/collaboration in discussion areas, group projects that included collaboration and knowledge creation, and assessing that the learning was really occuring. There was a problem, a need. The need was addressed with content, technologies, instructional strategies, and assessments. Assessments provide the answer to whether or not the instruction was effective and efficient. Assessments also provide ways to build better instruction for the future. I believe these were three of the important strategies of my unit.
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Chih-Hsiung Tu on 30 Apr 10Could you explain why "social interaction/collaboration in discussion areas" is NLE strategy not online learning strategy?
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Janet Coolman on 30 Apr 10The social interaction/collaboration is intended as an NLE strategy to have teachers "network" with one another. I am hoping that the online discussion area with be a starting point for collaboration outside of the online workshop. I am also hoping that the teachers will bring information from their individual networks into the discussion area to share those ideas and networks with their groups. I see discussion areas as collaboration areas and do not see them as only online learning strategies.
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Common Question II: NLE Please justify why your unit integrating NLE, not just online learning environments (OLE). Be sure to distinguish NLE from OLE. Provide the examples from your unit to justify your responses.
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Connecting different networks provides ways of managing content, process and support to others in your community of practice. This can be used online or in the traditional classroom. Providing learners with content through building their own personal learning environments also provides them with ways of managing their learning and with ways to share and interact in a community of practice. The formation of groups and group projects provides learners with collaboration, and extends their communities of practice. Social bookmarking extends these communities globally. The creation of a wiki, while an online strategy also provides a tool to use in a traditional classroom as an enhancement for group work and to encourage discussions for building new knowledge and social interactions.
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The content is certainly advanced enough to reach your collegiate audience. the content directly relates to organizational learning through network environments, as students not only are learning within such environments, but are actively developing their own. The unit is very constructivist oriented in that students have to design and create within a framework that doesn't detail everything for them. Students are asked to remix multiple content areas and sources to form their own works. Multiple tools are used such as wiki, Google Docs, social bookmarking, and various PLE creation tools. Feedback Comments: The focus of the tools used in this project are at the development of network learning environments. The tools are used to remix content, and also interact within a network of learners. This unit uses projects like small papers and wiki design as its primary means of evaluation. Evaluation is guided by the use of rubrics. the unit itself is also evaluated based on an end of unit survey. All the goals and objectives are measurable. They are measurable, however, to varying degrees as different instruments of assessment are employed. The instructional strategies use are evaluated based on the end of units survey. Overall this was a really strong unit. You covered a large breath of information at incorporated network learning environment thinking. On occasion, I found myself thinking as a novice user and asking functional questions like, where is the discussion area, how do I post my work, and how do I join your site.
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Thanks, Chris. I find this a real work in progress...always refining and tweeking. I appreciate your comments. Jan
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Content more then adequately supports the audience: teachers. Presented in an organized, easy to comprehend manner. NLE instructional strategies: Integrated in multiple ways supported by excellent and numerous resources. Discuss the effectiveness of projects with the class, not just with the instructor. Collaboration assignments used technology effectively and beneficially. Each activity had a rubric or measured. Wow! Jan, the amount of your Class Resources is amazing! I appreciated the organized nature, magnificent amount of rubrics, and the diversity in assignments. Excellent job.