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Technology Enhanced
Learning
Module 1: Planning your teaching Year
PG Cert HE
LSE Teaching and Learning Centre / Centre for
Learning Technology
Overview
(1) Your experiences with learning technologies
(2) Definitions and introduction to learning
technologies
(3) Learning technologies in action at the LSE
(4) Integrating learning technologies into your
teaching
(1) Your experiences
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What learning technologies have you used
in your teaching and learning?
Give an example of how a technology
enhanced your teaching and/or learning.
How have you planned to use learning
technology in your teaching this year?
(2) Definitions and introduction to
the learning technology
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Come up with definitions:
E-learning
Blended learning
Distance or open learning
Definitions
• E-learning – ‘learning facilitated and supported through the
use of information and communications technology’ (ICT)
JISC
• Blended learning – the combination of a range of
technologies, a range of teaching methods, a range of
learning experiences or a range of locations of the learning
events. (Mason and Rennie, 2006, xxxii)
• Open distance learning – ‘Distance learning is a formalised
teaching and learning system specifically designed to be
carried out remotely’
‘studying and learning in your own time, either at home or
wherever suits you’ (Open University London);
Refers to aim of ‘removing barriers to learning’
(3) Learning technologies in
action at LSE
• The virtual tour of Moodle
• Lecture capture
• Personal response systems (PRS) /
voting / clickers
• Find out more about different
technologies from CLT courses and
workshops
Moodle overview
• For providing course materials – provides
structure and wide variety of resources
• For discussion and feedback (written and
audio)
• For collaborative work using the glossary and
wiki tools
• To help with administration (assignment
submission)
• For study skills development
Lecture capture
• Students find it a valuable revision tool
• Widening access to lecture content
• Potentially freeing up time for more
interaction in the classroom
• Success depends partly on lecturing
style and discipline
• An on-going debate…
(3) Examples of PRS in LSE100
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Checking facts
Gauging opinions
Exploring dilemmas
Stimulating debate (our examples)
Which of these regions
emitted the most CO2 in
the 20th century?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
North America
Africa
The Soviet Union
Europe
The Middle East
0%
1
0%
0%
2
3
0%
0%
4
5
10
“There is a powerful case for
strong action on climate
change”
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1. Strongly agree
2. Agree
3. Unsure
4. Disagree
5. Strongly
disagree
0%
1
0%
2
0%
0%
3
4
0%
5
The prisoners’ dilemma
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Your options again:
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Testify against the other prisoner, and if they remain
silent, you go free and they get 10 years in jail
Stay silent, and if the other prisoner testifies against
you, you get 10 years in jail and they walk free
Testify against the other prisoner, and if they testify
against you too, you both get 5 years in jail
Stay silent, and if the other prisoner stays silent too,
you both walk free
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What should you do?
1.
2.
Testify
Remain silent
What should you do?
1. Testify
2. Stay silent
0%
0%
10
1
2
(3) Learning Technology in Action
• Using the PRS
• Quiz on knowledge and skills of your
students.
A student needs help with academic writing.
Who should you refer him/her to?
1. Language Centre
2. Subject Liaison
Librarian
3. Their academic
advisor
4. Teaching and
Learning Centre
5. The Training Portal
20%
1
20%
2
20%
20%
3
4
20%
5
A student comes to you worried about
plagiarism. Who do you send her/him to for
further advice?
20%
20%
20%
20%
3
4
20%
1. Language Centre
2. Subject Liaison
Librarian
3. Their academic
advisor
4. Teaching and
Learning Centre
5. The Training Portal
1
2
5
A student has joined your course from another
department and only has limited excel skills.
Where should you send him/her to?
1. Waterstones to
buy a book
2. IT Training
3. Library
4. Teaching and
Learning Centre
25%
1
25%
25%
2
3
25%
4
A student is trying to pin down his/her
dissertation topic but is unsure how to find
appropriate sources. Who do you send them
to?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Academic adviser
Other academics in
school with similar
interests
Library
Teaching and Learning
Centre
Subject Liaison librarian
Google
17%
1
17%
2
17%
17%
3
4
17%
5
17%
6
(4) Integrating learning technologies into
your teaching
What do you think about using Moodle, PRS and lecture
capture in your teaching?
How might you use learning technology (ies) to
enhance student learning? Plan an activity for your next
teaching session and explain what technology (ies) you
have chosen and why?