EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYESEARCH UNIT http://edtech.oulu.fi Introduction to technology enhanced learning Prof. Sanna Järvelä Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education University of Oulu, Finland
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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYESEARCH UNIT http://edtech.oulu.fi
Introduction to technology enhanced learning
Prof. Sanna JärveläLearning and Educational Technology Research Unit
Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYESEARCH UNIT http://edtech.oulu.fi
What is Learning Sciences?(Saywer, 2006)
• Is an interdisciplinary field that studies teaching and learning. The sciences of learning include cognitive science, educational psychology, computer science, sociology, neuroscience and other fields.
• Educators can use the learning science to design more effective learning environments, including schools, classrooms and informal settings.
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYESEARCH UNIT http://edtech.oulu.fi
Why collaboration is effective for learning?
Learning does not emerge because of a group of people, but because collaboration stimulates and activates knowledge acquisition mechanisms in individual learners!
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYESEARCH UNIT http://edtech.oulu.fi
Collaborative learning is not a recipe
• Collaborative learning often leads to better results than learning individually (Johnson & Johnson, 1999), but not systematically.
• Asking students to work together is not enough (Järvelä & Häkkinen, 2001).
• Collaboration per se does not produce learning outcomes; its results depend upon the extent to which groups actually engaged in productive interactions.
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Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
”Learning scientists have discovered that deep learning is more likely to occur in complex social and technological environments”(Brandsford et al. 2000)
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Our approach has been to consider self-regulated learning as a framework for “innovations in learning design” – developing opportunities for collaboration
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Media effectiveness is still a myth – this is why we need learning sciences• Each time a new media enters the
educational sphere, it generates over-expectations with respect to its intrinsic effects on learning.
• New artefacts (iPads, mobile phones) or new tools (WIKIS, Blogs, clouds…) emerge.Spesific arguments for the choose and use of tools are neededTechnology alone does very little to aid learning, but students social and cognitive activities are critical.Learning Sciences help