Blending Courses with Course Archives and "Webtexts" Stephen Chen ITEC Atkinson sychen@yorku.ca
Fearless Learning Alan November Leading Learning 2005 http://www.yorku.ca/abel/LL2005/keynote/index.html Empower students to learn anything at any time from anywhere
Modern Economies and Modern Education Dynamics of modern workplace requires life-long learners and just-in-time learners Formal, packaged lectures are not ideally suited for promoting self-directed learning and independent inquiry
The Role of Learning Objects Learning Objects are on-line resources dedicated to a single topic Well developed Learning Objects engage users into deeper explorations and understanding Deep explorations and individualized learning experiences are not usually available to students in large-size classes
The Role of Face-to-Face Teaching Why are we here today? Teaching and learning benefits from the visual performance and dynamic interactivity of a classroom lecture Many concepts can be taught more efficiently and effectively in the classroom
Course Blending Achieve the benefits of both on-line and in-person teaching formats Any “normal format” course can be blended
Low-level Blending Course Archives Tutorials Discussion Forums http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/itec/courses/ITEC1620/1620archive.html Tutorials http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~sychen/ITEC1620/tutorials.html Discussion Forums
High-level Blending Teaching with Learning Objects Webtexts Collection of selected web resources organized to match the course http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~sychen/ITEC2620/webtext/
Current Research Gesture Friendly Interfaces Webtexts Hard to teach with learning objects http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~sychen/research/math/relationships_final.html Webtexts Independent research projects