Chapter 7 Web 2.0 Learning Environments in Distance Learning By Amal Alshehri
Nov 17, 2014
Chapter 7 Web 2.0 Learning Environments
in Distance Learning
ByAmal Alshehri
• Disruptive Innovation
• Current Use of Course Management System
Software and Web 2.0
• Constructs for Web 2.0 Learning Environments
• Personal Learning Space
• The Strengths and weaknesses of Web 2.0 Tools
• Professional Development
• Key Principles For Leaders To Know.
Outline:
An innovation that, by its implementation, disrupts the status quo.
Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive Innovation to create educational opportunities that are:
• Effective• Affordable• Accessible
The net generation and distance learning:
They are fundamentally differ from previous generations in in the way they process information, communicate, and learn.
• It is a technologies support, encourage, and provide Web space for content published by the user rather than the Web site designer or developer.
• Web 2.0 disrupts current distance learning technology such as course management system software CMS, LMS , blackboard moodle etc.
Web 2.0
Constructs For Web 2.0 Learning Environments:
• Cognitive/scripts
• Social/actors
• Networking/stages
• Integration/acting
• District Structure and Processes: Web 2.0 technology emphasizes the fundamental shift from information to communication,
• Architecture of Learning: A key characteristic of Web 2.0 is user participation.
Activity
Integrating web 2.0 tools to support distance learning has several weaknesses and strengths
Group 1 weaknesses page 140Group 2 strengths page 138
Personal Learning Space:
Sharing
Social interaction
Content with discussions
Social communication,
Virtual meetings
Quiz/informal assessments
Three major steps are critical in teacher technology training.
(1) Online teachers must become “performers,” those who can facilitate online students to manage their individual learning spaces. This means online teachers would employ Web 2.0 technologies before assigning students to do so.
(2) Districts should assist teachers with identifying a purpose for adopting Web 2.0 technologies so they know how to design their curriculum effectively and then how to assess this innovation.
(3) Districts should assist teachers with relating Web 2.0 technologies to the goals of the course and help show how they fit in and benefit students.
Professional Development
Key Principles For Leaders To Know
• Provide training to teachers so they understand correctly that online learning
technology is to deliver knowledge and skills, not just content.
• Encourage teachers and students to build differentiation/personalized learning.
• Allow and encourage teachers and students to take control of their own data to
create personal learning environments.
• Allow and empower teachers to organize their learning model via participation,
creating, editing, organizing, retrieving, and tagging contents.
• Schools should provide multiple Web 2.0 tools, but they may have duplicate
functions to allow teachers to select their own tools.
• Schools should update and identify new software to support teachers.
• Integrate various Web 2.0 tools to create and foster a healthy social learning
community for teachers to learn from each other and exchange
effective online technology strategies.