Activities this week:
Dr. Martin Wellar’s optional webinar. Tuesday Oct 6, 2020 (9-10 am PST)
Please add your Questions for Dr. Weller (from your Week 4 blog posts) HERE
Zoom link is on the #EDCI339 A02 social spaces page
Also consider following #EDCI339 in Twitter and add any resources, links or other tweets that expands upon the idea of what we are “calling” this type of learning happening in current Higher Education/ K-12 contexts. (Always click on “Latest”). Let’s start sharing resources and ideas to support our understanding of our past and current learning contexts.
Twitter Resources: Click HERE
Hello everyone!
As September winds down, the sun is starting to set earlier and earlier and the leaves start to fall (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) I have noticed I am already more tired than usual. While it is most likely the pandemic, and my inability to be “anxiety free”, think I am beginning to really feel the weight of trying to get through as if it were normal.
I am wondering if you are feeling the same way? Now that your courses have started and things are starting to make more sense, do you feel more overwhelmed that normal? Please send me an email to tell me how you are doing this week as an early course check-in – before the Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend – as I am grateful and truly appreciative of your hard work and perseverance through these first weeks of the course.
I made a video and ppt this week to help guide you through the weekly readings. Please watch the video below and skim through the ppt for more information:
This is the link for the ppt for #EDCI Week 5 (I have included all links to the additional resources).
I included a brief summary of the main learning theories in my video this week for the the Bates (2014) blog post. I turned the Howell Major (2015) article into an pdf and wrote my notes there. I had to upload the google.doc into our Brightspaces content section – as it is copyright and I could only share a partial example due to copyright as it is hidden by a password. I also expand upon the ideas from the case studies in the video – and encourage you to consider the connection between the “History of 25 Years of EdTech” and the present “EdTech Learning Reality”.
The readings this week are the following: Please ensure you complete your blog post, then connect with your social pods! Also consider following #EDCI339 in Twitter and add any resources, links or other tweets that expands upon the idea of what we are “calling” this type of learning happening in current Higher Education contexts.
Howell Major, C. (2015). Teaching Online – A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice. (pp. 88-105). Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=3318874
Note: UVic login is required
Bates, T.(2014). Learning Theories and Online
Learning. [Blog post]. Retrieved from
https://www.tonybates.ca/2014/07/29/learning-theories
-and-online-learning/
I am REALLY looking forward to your first -handed in- reflective blog posts. I will have them back to you by the end of this week.
Reflection post questions to consider for this week:
Focus: Connect the 25 Years of EdTech Reading from LAST week, and the webinar from this week to the reading that consider learning theory and asynchronous learning design.
Considering our current learning reality and context, what kinds of examples of online learning theory have you seen/ experienced as a result of the Covid 19 Crisis?
What kinds of new course design “philosophies” have you experienced, heard about or are curious about?
How has the Pandemic Pedagogical approaches (how we have been learning through the pandemic) been the same and/or different than what we experienced before in online learning?
What do you think will change in Higher Ed (or K-12) as a result of our Covid experiences – using EdTech history and online learning theory to frame your answer?
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns,
Dr. Roberts 🙂