2012 Professorial lecture/Learning and Teaching

Quality learning

 * Learning should be enjoyable for both students and teachers
 * The best way of learning comes from the experiential way of learning (learning by doing)
 * EIT examples:
 * BCS degree capstone project/internship
 * Bachelor of Teaching(Early Childhood Education) and proposed Bachelor of Teaching (Primary):	2 days/week internship plus placements
 * Prompt feedback
 * Time constrained
 * Caters for diverse talents and ways of learning


 * Chickering, A. & Ehrmann, S. (1996). Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever, AAHE Bulletin, October, (pp. 3-6). Retrieved from http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html
 * Graham, C., Cagiltay, K., Lim, B-R., Craner, J. & Duffy, T.M. (2001) "Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses" The Technology Source

Teaching/learning strategies
From “Sage on the stage” to “Guide on the side”


 * Instructivist
 * Content is “taught” to students, as in a lecture
 * Behaviourist/cognitive
 * self paced and individual study
 * Apprenticeship
 * On the job training with a “master”
 * Practice/Enquiry/Field based
 * Hybrid (courseware, on job), supported by reflection (ePortfolio)
 * Constructivist
 * working in groups, and
 * Connectivist (Social)
 * Using networks and collectives.

In a blended environment, multiple strategies should be used to engage students, with different pedagogies suiting different situations.

Adapted from: Anderson, T. (2010). Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy [PowerPoint]. Retrieved May 2, 2010 from http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/

Learning styles and the debate
Lots of models, including:
 * David Kolb, Honey & Mumford, and Neil Fleming’s VAK (visual, auditory, kinesthetic)
 * VAK Questionnaire(http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire)
 * Debate:
 * “One of the biggest myths known to teacherdom is learning styles”
 * “… self fulfilling prophecy”

Instead of asking whether we engaged the right sense (or learning mode), we should be asking, “what did students think about while they were in class?"

Wheeler, S. (2012) A convenient untruth. Retrieved from http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/convenient-untruth.html

Mixed up learners: Baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y
In a tertiary class we can have a variety of students

… and international students …the global village

 * Introduction including greetings in multiple languages

21st Century teacher and student

 * Live in a connected world
 * Facebook
 * Have multiple channels of communicating:
 * Text
 * eMail
 * Discussion forums (including online games)
 * Have to deal with huge amounts of information
 * Google searching
 * Rapid technology change
 * Hardware & software
 * Electronic rather than paper based
 * Expect instant responses