Optional Webinar: Humanizing Online Learning with Helen DeWaard
Pleasant Reminder: Humanizing Online Learning Webinar with Helen DeWaard will be on Tuesday, Sept 29 from 6-7 PST.
The Zoom Link can be found on https://edtechuvic.ca/edci339/a02social-spaces/
Helen is completing her PhD and will discuss her experiences and research in Humanizing Online Learning. You are welcome to skim though some of her writing in the HumanMOOC Pressbook:
4. Voice and Video Instructor Feedback to Enhance Instructor Presence
5. Using Video to Humanize Online Instruction
I have had the pleasure to work with Helen at UBC with ETS as a Learning Designer. We are currently working on article about Assessment, Student Blogging, Student Voice and Choice.
Weekly Blog Activities:
This week we will be transitioning from the importance of Building Relationships and community in online learning environments into the History of Educational Technology (EdTech) and online learning.
The weekly reading includes a summary of the history of EdTech by Dr. Martin Weller. Dr. Weller will meet with us to discuss his reading on October 6, 2020.
Weller (2018) emphasizes the gap in recording and reflecting about the history of educational technology. He questions and considers why there is a gap and how there is a clear pattern of edtech researchers and practitioners citing “new” innovations in edtech, that have so often been around for awhile but in different contexts or with different names.
Weller selects a different educational technology, theory, or concept for each of the years from 1998 through 2018 . These choices are not based on when the topic was “invented”, but rather when it was significant. This is an important distinction because it may be one fo the reasons why so many “edtech” discoveries are considered new, when they are actually not new at all.
Blog Post and Social Pod Activity:
The topics in the article are listed below.
- For your blog post this week, go through each topic, take notes and add in how the topics connect to “humanizing online learning” and add in any additional notes, links and examples from your supplementary readings.
- Add your summary of your notes/chart to your blog. Consider making a video, infographic or other digital artifact to summarize these key topics and their influence on educational technology.
- After you have competed your summary, write 2 questions that you would ask Dr. Weller in preparation for his webinar.
- Also consider which of the topics interest you the most and if you would consider any of them for your final project.
- Share your blog post with your summary with your social pod, then reply to your peer’s blog posts.
Twenty Years of EdTech Topics:
1998: Wikis
1999: E-Learning
2000: Learning Objects
2001: E-learning Standards
2002: Open Educational Resources (OER)
2003: Blogs
2004: The LMS
2005: Video
2006: Web 2.0
2007: Second Life and Virtual Worlds
2008: E-Portfolios
2009: Twitter and Social Media
2010: Connectivism
2011: PLE
2012: MOOCs
2013: Open Textbooks
2014: Learning Analytics
2015: Digital Badges
2016: The Return of AI
2017: Blockchain
2018: TBD
Supplementary Resources to Support Your Learning
Dr. Martin Weller
Weller, M. (2020). 25 Years of ed tech. AU Press. Retrieved from https://read.aupress.ca/read/25-years-of-ed-tech/section/e69021f2-91b6-4ca4-9d0b-81d3e9748707
Audrey Watters
Watters, A. (2019). The 100 Worst EdTech Debacles of the Decade. [Weblog]. Retrieved from http://hackeducation.com/2019/12/31/what-a-shitshow
Sir John Daniels
Sir John Daniels has led the OU in the UK and the Commonwealth of Learning – both leaders in the field and served as in a senior position in UNESCO.
Link to info
about the Webinar Its dated 24th September, 2020 in the list of past webinars
Some info about the talk:
“Join Sir John Daniel for a review of open and distance learning (ODL)’s 2,000-year history, starting with St. Paul’s letters to modern day MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). In this 1-hour session, Sir
John draws on his 50 years of experience in open and distance learning to reveal four sets of basic concepts: two trios and two dyads.
- The first trio (access, quality, cost) identifies the revolutionary impact technology can have on education.
- The second trio (learning materials, student support, logistics) gives us the secret of quality ODL.
- The two related dyads, (independence/interaction and synchronicity/asynchronicity) demonstrate that effective ODL requires a balance of pedagogy.
Understanding and applying these basic concepts help faculty, instructors and institutions integrate ODL into their courses and programs more effectively as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
