Web 2.0 technologies are changing the educational technology landscape, creating new opportunities and challenges for educators around the world. This interactive workshop invites participants to engage with the range of issues facing educators in the web 2.0 age, reflect on their practices and experience and develop strategies for effectively integrating web 2.0 technologies for teaching and learning at their own institutions. Case studies from Deakin and literature will be used to frame discussion and activities allowing participants to develop knowledge and skills in enhancing teaching and learning with web 2.0 technologies.
The intended audience of this workshop is academic staff involved in unit design and development, educational developers and instructional designers involved in supporting staff in the unit development process. To gain maximum benefit from this session attendees should have intermediate technology skills (an understanding of common instructional design methods and have a basic understanding of web 2.0 technologies such as wikis and blogs), be confident in teaching or designing and developing units for delivery in an online environment, and be familiar with concepts and issues relating to the Higher Education sector.
The workshop will be facilitated by:
Naomi and Gayani are experienced web 2.0 practitioners who have overseen the introduction of social software in their teaching at Deakin University as evidenced in the selected publication list below. Naomi oversaw the successful 2007 pilot of social software at Deakin University that allowed her to provide web 2.0 consultancy to educators across the University. Naomi recently presented the successful outcome of a Blackboard Greenhouse Grant awarded to Deakin that supported the integration of MediaWiki and Drupal-SMF into Deakin University’s Learning Management System, Blackboard Vista, at the 2008 Blackboard World conference.
Mary and Kim have played an instrumental role in the design, development and delivery of professional development materials and training workshops to Deakin staff on the effective use of web 2.0 technologies for teaching and learning online.
In 2007 the Institute of Teaching and Learning at Deakin University led a pilot that investigated the teaching and learning potential of web 2.0 technologies including wikis, blogs, photo sharing applications and discussion forums. This session showcases the experiences and knowledge gained through the pilot process and invites participants to reflect on their own practice and context to develop strategies to integrate web 2.0 technologies into their units to enhance online teaching and learning at their own institution through discussion and structured group and individual activities.
Initial interactive presentation will provide a context for the workshop providing an overview of the Deakin experience and focusing on issues that arose from the 2007 pilot. The discussion will include issues such as privacy, trust, community, assessment, moderation, workload, copyright and intellectual property and the strategies and approaches to working through them when integrating web 2.0 technologies for a variety of unit contexts.
A structured activity will allow participants to contextualize the issues and challenges raised in the initial session by deconstructing real case studies from the Deakin experience and working through resolutions and outcomes as part of the workshop group.
A final activity completed as part of a small group or individually invites participants to work on a scenario from their own institution or a pre defined scenario provided by facilitators to put the knowledge gained from the workshop into practice by developing strategies for integrating web 2.0 technologies into unit design.
9.30 - 10.30 |
Presentation and discussion - Teaching and Learning 2.0: Issues and challenges |
10.30 - 10.45 |
Break |
10.45 - 11.30 |
Deconstructing web 2.0 case studies |
11.30-12.30 |
Developing practical strategies and approaches for introducing social software into your unit design |
12.30 - 12.45 |
Conclusion and next steps |
Augar, N., R. Raitman, W. Zhou (2006). Wikis: Collaborative Virtual Learning Environments. In Weiss, J., Nolan, J., Hunsinger, J., Trifonas, P. (eds.) The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Volume 2, 1251-1269, Netherlands , Springer.
Augar, N., R. Raitman, et al. (2004). Teaching and learning online with wikis. Ascilite, (95-104) Perth , Australia , Ascilite.
Benson, R. & Samarawickrema, G. (2007) Teaching in context: Some implications for e-learning design, in R. Oliver, D. Tan, A. Kit, C. Cheers (eds), ICT: Providing Choices for Learners and Learning, pp. 61-70, ASCILITE, Singapore
Goold, A., Augar, N. (2008). Using Social Software to Support the Teaching of IT Professional Practice, Ed-Media 2008, AACE and Education and Information Technology Library.
Goold, A., Augar, N. and Farmer, J. (2006). Learning in Virtual Teams: Exploring the Student Experience, Informing Science and IT Education Conference, (In Press) Manchester , UK , Informing Science Institute.
Samarawickrema, G. (2008). Wikis in Higher Education: Pilot Online Wiki Workshop (27 August -10 September 2007): Description and Outcomes. Research report, Melbourne, Australia, Deakin University
Samarawickrema, G. (2007) Piloting social networking and Web 2.0 software at Deakin University, in R. Oliver, D. Tan, A. Kit, C. Cheers (eds), ICT: Providing Choices for Learners and Learning, pp. 904-908, ASCILITE, Singapore