1. MASTER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING -AUTONOMOUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS May 19, 2017
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO FOSTER SELF-DIRECTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COLOMBIA -DIAGNOSING THE CURRENT STATUS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS-

2. SETTING AND OPTIMIZING LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTRES II Tutor Patricia Alvarez

3. LOs: Revisiting concept LOs. Yes there is a template
SESSION AGENDA
Instructional design
LOs: Revisiting concept
LOs. Yes there is a template
Peer and self- evaluating learning objects: The instrument
Learning opportunities of your LOs
Sample Learning Objects
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO FOSTER SELF-DIRECTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COLOMBIA -DIAGNOSING THE CURRENT STATUS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS-

4. Web 2.0 tools to foster collaborative learning
SESSION AGENDA
Web 2.0 tools to foster collaborative learning
Design Principles for LOs
Refining your LO1
Drafting your LO2 and LO3
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO FOSTER SELF-DIRECTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COLOMBIA -DIAGNOSING THE CURRENT STATUS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS-

5. Learning Objects: Instructional design
Does the acronym ADDIE ring any bell?
Instructional design (ID) models describe a systematic process, typically delineated by phases.
They provide a structure to use when designing instructional products and experiences to
meet learners’ instruction.
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6. Learning Objects: Instructional design
There are also learning goals that involve critical thinking, problem
solving, and lifelong learning skills (Dunlap & Grabinger, 2003).
Oh no….
Achieving these goals requires a different approach to instructional design

7. Learning Objects: Instructional design
Let’s see what the sociocultural approach has to teach us…
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8. Learning Objects: Instructional design
Now let’s contrast these two models and see how they can support the design of our LOs.
Let’s take a look at the article:
Grabinger, S. Aplin,C. Ponnappa-Brenner,G. ( 2007). Instructional Design for Sociocultural Learning Environments. Online available:

9. Learning Objects: Revisiting Concepts
Dickens, A. and Corner, A. (n.d.) have characterized a learning object as:
a particular type of online electronic learning material that is generally defined as a small, digital and self-contained unit of learning
Also…
a key quality learning object contains a high level of interactivity,
has defined learning outcomes and specific tasks or activities for the learner
a LO won’t necessarily depend on other resources or other units of learning and should be reusable in a number of learning situations.
Is composed by a given number of activities ( 3 in this case) which are sequenced and clearly help students to reach the objective of the collaborative project.

10. Have you taken into account the LO template?

11. Peer and self- evaluating learning objects: The instrument
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO FOSTER SELF-DIRECTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COLOMBIA -DIAGNOSING THE CURRENT STATUS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS-

12. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Engage students with an informative useful general intro to the activity
Engage students in active reflection.
Provide students with visible input.

13. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Give Ss access to immediate feedback

14. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Give your students immediate feedback opportunities. Make sure you do this for all the activities. Remember that there are different strategies to provide effective feedback
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO FOSTER SELF-DIRECTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COLOMBIA -DIAGNOSING THE CURRENT STATUS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS-

15. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Engage students with a sequence of three staged activities which become increasingly challenging and their feedback .

16. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Make input accessible to Ss by various means so that you cater for various learning styles
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO FOSTER SELF-DIRECTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COLOMBIA -DIAGNOSING THE CURRENT STATUS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS-

17. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Give users, short, precise and clear instructions

18. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Link the word resources to the actual section in the VLRC

19. Learning opportunities of your LOs
The use of free digital photos and your own pictures is higly advisable

20. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Refer your students constantly to consult and make use of the all the sections of your VLRC

21. Learning opportunities of your LOs
Let students know who their tutors are.

22. Fostering collaboration in your VLRC
Create collaborative mind maps
This slide was taken from: Alvarez, P. and Molina L. (2012). Web 2.0 tools, the E-Champions course. Colombian Ministry of Education

23. Fostering collaboration in your VLRC
Create forums to foster discussions
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24. Fostering collaboration in your VLRC
Give students a space to write and share their ideas. Collaborative whiteboards are a nice idea.

25. Fostering collaboration in your VLRC
Find out how much Ss know on a given topic.
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26. Copyrights and creative commons
Make sure you create and display the CC attributions

27. Sample Learning Objects

28. Important dates LO3 design May 30
Piloting LOs 1 and 2 (submission of observation instrument)
June 13
Next F2F class
June 17