CITRENZ 2010:Introduction

Overview
For an educator two interacting systems This presentation considers how wikis and blogs can be used to support blended teaching and learning.
 * Pedagogies (strategies or style of instruction),
 * Technology to support the strategies

Research

 * In the virtualMe framework a customised solution was developed and student knowledge captured through annotating the content in a way that maintained the context of the student’s contribution.

The virtualMe framework included
 * 1) a user management sub-system, to control access and tracking details;
 * 2) a taxonomy structure, to organise the content;
 * 3) a sniplet model to store the content;
 * 4) a multimedia object (MMOs) model with associated metadata described in the multimedia vocabulary markup language (MVML);
 * 5) an annotation framework to manage sharing of information and knowledge and allow for both out-of-context and in-context comments to be managed;
 * 6) a presentation layer to manage the user interface.

and a customised solution was developed.



Pedagogy (andragogy?)
2010 DEANZ Conference, in Wellington, New Zealand, Terry Anderson described three generations of distance education pedagogy.
 * Behaviourist/cognitive, constructivist and connectivist. (Anderson, 2010), where: behaviourist/cognitive includes, self paced and individual study;
 * constructivist, working in groups; and
 * connectivist, using networks and collectives.

For a blended environment, behaviourist includes instructivist, where content is “taught” to students, as in a lecture. In a blended environment, multiple strategies are used to engage students, with different pedagogies suiting different situations.

Structured content:wiki

 * Advances in wiki technology have made their application in education more popular, and have the potential to create online environments which both support social activities and interactions and promote collaborative learning activities (Choy & Ng, 2007 ; Wheeler, Yeomans, & Wheeler, 2008 ; Lin, Sajjapanroj, & Bonk, 2009 ).

Unstructured comments:Blog

 * a way in which individuals can record unstructured comments and allow reader annotations.
 * by 2008 346 million people globally reading blogs (Singer, 2009).

Wikis in teaching and learning


Source: (Couros, 2008)

Existing wiki systems

 * Open collaboration:
 * WikiEducator (http://www.wikieducator.org)
 * Wikiversity (http://www.wikiversity.org)
 * Wikibooks (http://www.wikibooks.org)
 * Centred on a person (educator)
 * Wikispaces (http://www.wikispaces.com)
 * Inside an LMS
 * Moodle