is there an e pedagogy?
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Presentation to Dundee University debate: Is there such a thing as an e-pedagogy? (2012)TRANSCRIPT
Is there a pedagogy of e-learning?
Julia FotheringhamEdinburgh Napier UniversityLecturer – Academic Practice
Is there a distinctive e-pedagogy?
Review & Preview
• InspireED series so far …• What might be distinctive about an e-
pedagogy?• What do we need to know and be able to do
to design and deliver a curriculum of the future?
• Propose an extended pedagogy
Professor Peter Hartley
“should there be a pedagogy of e-learning? - there should not …”
Neil Winton
“There might be a pedagogy of e-learning …. I’m going to sit on the fence and get some splinters”
What features make e-learning so pedagogically important?
Ease of access to learning resources
Logical structuring’Dialogue
Ease of access to
experts and support
Logging of
activities
Links to
other
media
Feedback loops
Opportunity for personalisation
Learners in control
Stephenson, J (2002)
Staker’s Blended Learning Models
Staker, H (2011)
3 different teaching contexts
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Danger of educationalinertia
What are the new things that we need to know and be able to do?
So what is there to learn?a selection …
Digital literacy: what tools to use and whenHow to use them in a pedagogically effective
wayMotivating and managing without visual cuesTechnical fearlessness Accessibility
Social presence
Teaching
presenceCognitive presence
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Supporting discourse
Setting the climate
Selecting content
Garrison, Anderson and Archer (1999)
Cognitive presence
New online pedagogic approaches enable new roles for teachers
• Tutors - not sage, guide nor ghost
• Learners as co-tutors and co-learners
• New models of curriculum design
Dark side of new roles
Extended pedagogy
Curriculum innovation
Digital literacies
E-pedagogy
Traditional pedagogy
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References
• Staker, H (2011) The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning [online at http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf]
• Garrison, R., Anderson., and Archer, W. (1999). Critical Inquiry in a Text-based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education The Internet and Higher Education, Vol. 2 (2 - 3), pp 87 - 105.
References
• Mayes, T (2001) Learning technology and learning relationships. In Stephenson, J. Ed. Teaching and Learning Online: Pedagogies for New Technologies, London:Kogan Page Ltd: