Showing posts with label week 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week 3. Show all posts
Activity Three – Investigate and describe an example of Flexible Learning in your organisation:
- Make a time to talk to two colleagues about how they incorporate flexibility in their teaching.
- Who are their students?
- How are the five dimensions of flexibility designed - time, delivery and logistics, entry requirements, content and instructional approaches and resources (Casey & Wilson, 2005)? Hint: Use the flexibility grid - Table 2.2, p. 7 & 8, and also Appendix 3, p. 41-44 in A practical guide to providing flexible learning in further and higher education by Casey, J. & Wilson, P. (2005). A practical guide to providing flexible learning in further and higher education.
- You may wish to interview the teachers, and/or prepare a description to post to your blog. (Remember to ask permission to use any audio or other information on your blog.)
- Use the Three-Step Reflective Framework and template as a guide when writing posts for your blog. Look for the template. (This is based on Bronwyn Hegarty's Doctorate research.)
- Listen to or read the article: Akyol, Z., Garrison, D.R. & Ozden, M. (2009). Online and blended communities of inquiry: Exploring the developmental and perceptional differences. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 10(6).
- You may wish to search for more articles in the open online journal The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.
A web conference is scheduled on Tuesday 20 March, 13:00 to 14:00 in Adobe Connect - https://adobeconnect.op.ac.nz/fl12/ - Sarah Stewart will talk about some examples of flexible learning.
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| Sarah Stewart, Educational Developer and Midwifery Educator |
This week we are exploring different types of Flexible Learning ( Examples of Flexible Learning ). In the Wednesday workshop we will be looking at a range of approaches used at Otago Polytechnic. I will prepare a summary of this session later on in the week. You are welcome to attend both the face to face and the online session, or access the recording of the web conference if unable to attend in person.This week's activity is a chance for you to talk to others about their work. Be sure and check out the readings as well for this week's topic: Examples of Flexible Learning
Activity Three – Investigate and describe an example of Flexible Learning in your organisation:
- Make a time to talk to two colleagues about how they incorporate flexibility in their teaching.
- Who are their students?
- How are the five dimensions of flexibility designed - time, delivery and logistics, entry requirements, content and instructional approaches and resources (Casey & Wilson, 2005)?
- You may wish to interview the teachers, and/or prepare a description to post to your blog. (Remember to ask permission to use any audio or other information on your blog.)
This week we are looking at a variety of ways to provide flexibility in learning. This is a time for you to explore local and global examples and links are provided on the course wiki - Examples of Flexible Learning. In the image you can see what can happen when you arrange the same cards differently.
There will be face-to-face and online presentations and discussion about this topic, and next week we will have an online discussion in the email group about some of the strategies. It is great to see so many people taking part in the online discussion and I have met several of you in the classroom- on-site and online. Everyone is already doing some form of flexible learning, and by working together and exchanging ideas we can all add to the mixing pot of creativity already underway.
As you will see when you explore the examples on the course website, and read the discussion posts, there is no one way to do things. It will be very interesting to hear your views in the sessions this week or in the email discussion about the examples you explore. What has struck you the most about the examples you have investigated? Are there other facets of teaching and learning you wish to share?
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