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Practical Experience with Avatars, Blended Learning, and Representation
Bertram (Chip) BruceGraduate School of
Library & Information ScienceUniversity of Illinoisillinois.edu/~chip
go.illinois.edu/leep
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AbstractIn a class meeting face-to-face and online at the same time, teacher and students collaborated to make it work. Learn from the professor and students about how they overcame problems and worked through strategies to make sure that all students, sitting in the classroom or on the screen, equally felt that they were part of the class. You will see their techniques demonstrated, and hear the lessons learned.
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Graduate School of Library & Information Science
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#1 LIS school in the US
Helped develop the field of LIS (1893)
Oldest LIS doctoral program (1948)
Advanced degree in digital libraries (2005)
Charter member of the iSchools Project
University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS)
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The need: Access
Distance
Professional, family obligations
Health issues
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LEEP distance education option
Award-winning online education program (1996)
Now includes more than 50% of GSLIS students
Model for others, including WISE consortium
Near 100% completion rate
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LEEP technologySynchronous: Elluminate https://www.elluminate.com
Asynchronous:
discussion forums, calendar, assignments (Moodle http://moodle.org)
wiki (Confluence https://www.atlassian.com)
blog (Wordpress https://wordpress.org)
LEEP weekend: On campus, face-to-face sessions
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Students, GAsTuesday, January 18, 2011
LEEP WeekendTuesday, January 18, 2011
What makes LEEP successful?
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1. One program
Full value for jobs & further study
Transfer of knowledge across courses
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2. Organic development
Faculty involvement in design & implementation
Teaching while traveling
Learning pedagogy
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3. Diversity as a resource
Diverse pool of instructors
Students from diverse communities: Barrio of East LA, Tlingit community in Alaska
Different professional settings
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4. Match to workplace & life
Professions increasingly defined in terms of information & communication technologies
Building on student experiences
Communication & collaboration
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5. Community of practice
Students learning from one another
Connection to
alums
professionals
community
other courses
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6. Technology support
For both online & on-campus teaching
Session archive
Audio/video displays
Online interaction, e.g., whiteboard
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7. Research, reflection
Learning & re-learning technologies
Shared analysis of problems
LEEP retreat for instructors
Presentations, journal articles, & books
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Why LEEP works1. One program
2. Organic development
3. Diversity as a resource
4. Match to workplace & life
5. Community of practice
6. Tech support
7. Research & reflection
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Inquiry-based learning class
Student from Québec, on campus 3 wks
Student traveling to Malawi, away 3 wks
Student in Illinois who’s physically present every other week
Student with health or family problems
Archive of sessions for all
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Inquiry-based learning class: Modes of participation
LEEP participant full-time: synchronous + asynchronous
LEEP participant half-time: asynchronous only
On campus participant
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Group work
Separate discussion forums
In and out of class group meetings involving both on campus and remote participants
Use of websites, Community Inquiry Labs, blogs
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Avatars
Usually means an online version of a person
Here, an in-person representation of someone present only online
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Blended learning
online, mobile, face-to-face media
varying pedagogical approaches
mix of theoretical with practical work
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Disappearance of technology
Bruce & Hogan (1997). The disappearance of technology: Toward an ecological model of literacy, http://hdl.handle.net/2142/13343
Bruce, Eastburn, & D’Arcy, (2009). How media ecologies can address diverse student needs, http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9761
Haythornthwaite, Bruce, Andrews, Kazmer, Montague, & Preston (2007). New theories and models of and for online learning. First Monday 12(8). http://fwd4.me/M5t
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not online learning or blended learning or hybrid learning or technology enhanced learning => simply...
learning
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