Slide 1: Distance learning and the role of ICT
author: Eric Kluijfhout, eric.kluijfhout@gmail.com
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Slide 2: Distance learning and the role of ICT
For the Institute for Community Participation, Bethlehem University by Eric Kluijfhout
Slide 3: Outline
• Generations in distance teaching • Promises and the state-of-the-art • E-learning in relation to ‘traditional’ teaching • Analytical framework
Slide 4: Generations in distance teaching
• • • • • • First generation: Correspondence courses Second generation: Broadcasting systems Third generation: Multi-media systems Fourth generation: On-line learning Fifth generation (?): Ubiquitous learning Sixth generation (?): Personalised integrated competence management
Slide 5: Are we talking about the same thing?
Learning with multi-media Computer-based learning On-line learning
Slide 6: Educational functions and e-tools
• • • • • • • • Select content Develop content Present content Communicate Practice Cooperate Test Manage/Admin
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Text editing Audio editing Video editing Slide editing Web-site Weblog Wiki Mail Chat Whiteboard Forum Audio-conferencing Videoconferencing Groupwork tools Learning Management System
Slide 7: E-learning’s promises
• For the student:
– Independent of time and place – Just-in-time – Personalised
• For the lecturer
– Concentrate on tutoring instead of teaching – More effective and professionally rewarding
• For the institution
– Provide more efficient and effective learning services – Reach new audiences and markets
Slide 8: Some e-learning lessons
• For the student:
– Independent of time and place: not necessarily web-based; limits interaction-options – Just-in-time: hard to realise, expensive – Personalised: hard to realise, expensive
• For the lecturer
– Tutoring instead of teaching: difficult role change – More effective and professionally rewarding: miss interpersonal communication, status
• For the institution
– More efficient and effective learning services: no proof – Reach new audiences and markets: difficult for traditional educational institutions (culture)
Slide 9: Strategic aims of e-learning
• To replace (part of) traditional teaching and learning: substitution • To change (part of) traditional teaching and learning: innovation • To radically change the core business and its supporting organization: transformation
Slide 10: E-learning’s relation to ‘traditional’ teaching
• In addition and parallel to traditional means of teaching and learning: extended classroom • To replace part of the traditional curriculum and teaching setting: blended learning • Completely time and place independent : distributed learning
Slide 11: Possible e-learning approaches
Extended classroom Substitution Innovation Transforma -tion Blended learning Distributed learning
Slide 12: Possible e-learning approaches
Extended classroom Substitution Innovation Transforma -tion
Students can choose between life lectures and video-taped lectures
Blended learning
Class-room lecture + on-line indiv. assignments Class-room lecture + on-line project with peers abroad
Distributed learning
Lecture through interactive video
Full distance, project-based learning (Inter)national professional learning network
Slide 13: Three dimensions of e-learning
pedagogical
E-learning
technological
organisational
Slide 14: Three levels to consider in elearning
Society (macro-level)
Institution/organisation (mezzo level)
Teaching & learning process (micro-level)
Slide 15: Analysis and design framework
Level Dimension pedagogical technological organizational micro mezzo macro
