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Project number: NPAD-2017/10097 TAU project

Seminar 1 Material [Part 4]


Teaching methods & management
Creation of favorable educational
environment, management and
planning work with adult learners
Document details

Country: Finland

Company: Learnmera Oy

Elaborated by: Inês Messias

Date of submission 13.12.2017


Seminar details
Seminar date 22.11.2017

Partners present Ingmarie Rohdin - SE


Åsa Kajsdotter - SE
Yulia Bazyukina - FI
Inês Messias - FI
Marja-Liisa Helenius - FI
Veronica Gelfgren - FI

Responsible All partner countries. Activity to be held by each partner in their institution
for its participants.

Result Participants will improve their educational and management competence.


Topics addressed
13 Where will the learners publish
their material

14 Teaching methods: Upgrading from a traditional


classroom to a digital dynamic classroom

15 Blended learning

16 Management: Managing adult learning courses?

17 Learning management systems: What strategies?


Topic 13
Where will the learners publish their material
Teachers must upload
their contents into
• Learning Management • PLE
Systems (LMS)
LMS
• Social Media
• Moodle • Make tests, pools, chat • Learning analytic tools
• Blackboard rooms, forums, send emails, • Social Network Analysis
there are many other options
• Check students’ engagement
for students to upload and
in online forums or groups
publish their materials to be
submitted to evaluation.
Higher education Usage of informal
institutions online tools
Topic 14
Teaching methods: Upgrading from a traditional classroom
to a digital dynamic classroom
Learning outside the classroom New tools
= New equipment
Digital tools Content interaction changed
Internet Teacher up to date with content and
Informal Learning technology Image 1 - Interaction in Distance Education (Anderson, T. & Garrison, D.R.; 2003

Education
+
Technology

Student-Student;
More interaction
Student-Teacher;
Traditional classroom
Student-Content;
E-Learning
Teacher-Teacher;
B-Learning
Teacher-Content;
More dynamic
Content-Content
Brooks-Young (2007) suggests that the ideal digital teacher profile has the
following 10 characteristics:

Demonstrate proficiency in the Use technology resources to


Use content-specific tools (e.g.,
use of common input and output facilitate higher order and
software, simulation,
“Demonstrate a sound devices; solve routine hardware complex thinking skills, including
environmental probes, graphing
understanding of the nature and and software problems; and problem solving, critical thinking,
calculators, exploratory
operation of technology systems. make informed choices about informed decision-making.
environments, Web tools) to
technology systems, resources, Knowledge construction, and
support learning and research.
and services. creativity.

Collaborate in constructing
Use technology in the
technology-enhanced models, Use technology to locate,
Use technology tools to process development of strategies for
preparing publications, and evaluate, and collect information
data and report results. solving problems in the real
producing other creative works from a variety of sources.
world.
using productivity tools.

Use a variety of media and


Evaluate and select new
formats, including
information resources and
telecommunications, to
technological innovations based
collaborate, publish, and interact
on their appropriateness to
with peers, experts and other
specific tasks.
audiences.”
Adult students are even more demanding.

They already have a They require training to


They require training to
notion of what they improve their skills at
find new better jobs
need for their work work

The rule as to
feedback gap is
They need timely that no more than
Opportunity is the key Their schedules are
feedback from their 48 hours shall pass
word for these students tight
teachers
between when the
student makes
contact and the
They want to know if teacher’s answer.
the time they are The faster they learn,
Structured feedback is
spending while learning the faster they improve
of the essence here
is spent creating quality in their work
knowledge
The need of a teacher that facilitates learning, rather than just lectures, that
gives students the set of tools they require to make their own individual
learning outside of the classroom, requires the teacher to master digital
tools and skills.

According to Barone (2005) “The arrival


of the Net Generation on campus is
causing unrest in the classroom. A wave
Grow out of the traditional
of young people empowered to create
teaching context and
knowledge, not merely absorb it. Now successfully embrace new
it flows in and out of the classroom”. pedagogical tools and models.
Teach your students to use digital tools to learn, to access, create and share knowledge;

Prepare your contents to be used online, PDFs are not dynamic, they are just the same contents, the
same pedagogical tools but in a different format;

Learn how to adapt your content to the most accurate digital tool, for this you must know the different
tools available and how to use them;

Don’t be afraid to try new tools, be afraid to get outdated;

Learn how to use Augmented Reality tools, Video tools, Digital Games, Online repositories; LMSs, PLEs,
Virtual tools, Digital presentations, Natural User Interfaces, QR Codes, Collaborative writing tools; Blogs,
Social Networks for learning and communities creation; Online curation, Collaborative Learning, etc.
Topic 15
Blended learning
Blended learning occurs when half the classes are given in a traditional
face-to-face learning and the other half in online learning. Although it is
called blended, most of the times real blending never takes place.

For real blended learning to take place, it would


In order for the real blending to take place,
be necessary to correctly use the new digital tools
the use of digital tools must be adapted and
to pass knowledge, but most of the time teachers
adequately made. LMSs provide a wide
use an LMS, convert their document into PDFs,
variety of tools that will allow the teacher to
import them to the LMSs, make the contents
present content in a more dynamic fashion.
available to the students, and call it blended.
Topic 16
Management: managing adult learning courses?
Traditional Digital
teaching teaching
Teachers and managers
(SE) courses according to
create the courses
the labour office
according to the
assignments vs tailor
curricula with one
made courses
coordinator

Immigrants vs
Language courses, skills
unemployed vs
courses
employed learners

Native speakers vs
second language Cultural issues
speakers
Topic 17
Learning management systems: what strategies?
LMSs, such as Moodle, are full of tools and digital potential. However, they are still a
new tool for most teachers and most learners, hence using it requires adaptation.

As with any other tool or device, practice makes


perfect, and as in most cases, practice comes
from exploration. Start simple!
Teacher’s Welcome video D
I
Welcome activity
F
F
I
Use the LMS tools to publish the contents
C
U
Talk to your students regularly
L
Make use of more dynamic
T
tools Y

Create forums and


debates L
E
Make use of
external tools V
E
Give timely
feedback L

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