My Own e-learning project
What is my Project?
Introduction: I faciliated, in a blended mode, four Certificate IV in Business Administration units online during Semester 1 and I have worked with the students on ways that this online environment could be improved. I have also designed another two units at the Diploma level for use, again in the blended mode, for Semester 2.
My Project (and my desire) is to provide a more "interesting" and "useful" online learning environment (and one which could eventually be used for "external" or distance students) by introducing some e-learning tools. The types of tools I'm looking at include:
- multiple-choice and true/false quizzes
- introducing a wiki to organise the agenda for our fortnightly meetings (and for other possible uses)
- making better use of forums - where students can post questions about the course or their learning for me to promptly reply to, rather than have to wait for the weekly classes
- a survey to determine the usefulness of these tools
- as well as investigate the toolbox currently available for the Diploma in Business Administration, and determine whether anything can be "uploaded".
How far along am I?
I have been working with some of our support staff to introduce some of the quizzes. I have also been "redesigning" the Cert IV online units to make them more coherent.
We have updated the forum for the Question and Answer forum.
What are the barriers?
TIME - we need to have the courses ready for quality assurance early next week. TIME - to muck around with what's around and then experiment with them. TIME - to have the brainspace to be creative in adapting the learning material into some really "groovy" learning activities. TIME - to offer the support that students will need once their using the online materials/tools. How to overcome? - Perserverence (sp?), Motivation, some excellent support staff (thanks Michael & Chris), more investigating/networking, some Good time management skills, making use of the "annoucement" section to update students of any new tools I'll add during the semester (eg the wiki and the survey), and what I'm learning during this Start up programme.
EXPERTISE - the quiz tools within the Janison platform (where TAFE puts their online learning stuff) are very hard to work with. How to overcome? Luckily I have some really excellent support staff (thanks Michael & Chris again :)) who can do the hard work of designing the quizzes and presenting them appropriately. I just need to come up with some more good ideas to implement!!!
Introduction: I faciliated, in a blended mode, four Certificate IV in Business Administration units online during Semester 1 and I have worked with the students on ways that this online environment could be improved. I have also designed another two units at the Diploma level for use, again in the blended mode, for Semester 2.
My Project (and my desire) is to provide a more "interesting" and "useful" online learning environment (and one which could eventually be used for "external" or distance students) by introducing some e-learning tools. The types of tools I'm looking at include:
- multiple-choice and true/false quizzes
- introducing a wiki to organise the agenda for our fortnightly meetings (and for other possible uses)
- making better use of forums - where students can post questions about the course or their learning for me to promptly reply to, rather than have to wait for the weekly classes
- a survey to determine the usefulness of these tools
- as well as investigate the toolbox currently available for the Diploma in Business Administration, and determine whether anything can be "uploaded".
How far along am I?
I have been working with some of our support staff to introduce some of the quizzes. I have also been "redesigning" the Cert IV online units to make them more coherent.
We have updated the forum for the Question and Answer forum.
What are the barriers?
TIME - we need to have the courses ready for quality assurance early next week. TIME - to muck around with what's around and then experiment with them. TIME - to have the brainspace to be creative in adapting the learning material into some really "groovy" learning activities. TIME - to offer the support that students will need once their using the online materials/tools. How to overcome? - Perserverence (sp?), Motivation, some excellent support staff (thanks Michael & Chris), more investigating/networking, some Good time management skills, making use of the "annoucement" section to update students of any new tools I'll add during the semester (eg the wiki and the survey), and what I'm learning during this Start up programme.
EXPERTISE - the quiz tools within the Janison platform (where TAFE puts their online learning stuff) are very hard to work with. How to overcome? Luckily I have some really excellent support staff (thanks Michael & Chris again :)) who can do the hard work of designing the quizzes and presenting them appropriately. I just need to come up with some more good ideas to implement!!!
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