Learning theories in daily life

I should spend one day thinking about learning theories. How I use them in daily life, e.g. how the influence my learning and my day.

Actually I have to say, that when I remember my school time y, I mostly got confronted with more or less behaviouristic teaching methods. Lots of input, that had to be remembered, critical reflection and self-determination of learning contents and aims was rather rare.

I have to say that I work a lot with the internet. Most of my daily research (where to go tonight, which restaurant, which club, to which office do I have to go to get my passpart, which professor is specified on that topic, etc.) is research in the internet. Most of the time, I try to find out about things that affect and effect me personally, are things that I’m really interested in. I have the possibility to do this research whenever and whereever I like to. I think that this is what a constructivist approach to learning is aimed to: that you become a critical, independent and self-determined learner. I have the impression, that the internet with his mass of resources really helpes me to become this kind of learner.

Online-Session

Our last session was a very new experience for me, because it was the first online seminar I’ve ever took part in. I was really curious how to manage to bring so many people online together and hold a seminar. 

In the beginning, we had some problems to manage that everybody could see and hear the instructors and referees. It was a little bit exhausting to keep in the skype conference, sometimes I got kicked out and had to wait untill I was called again and could join the seminar again. That was a little bit frustrating.

Additionally I found, that it was exhausting to follow the presentations over the whole time of almost two hours without seeing the person, that is speaking. 

What I really liked was the discussion in the skype chat, while the presentation was on. It was quite interesting to discuss everything immediately and direct. 

All in all it was a very interesting and important experience to me.

What is PLE?

What is PLE?

 

PLE means Personal Learning Environment

 

A design of a PLE should be based on the following characteristics:

1. It should be learner centered

2. It should provide the environment for a life-long learning: So when the learner grows up, it should grow up, too

3. A PLE should be designed very individually according the needs of the learner

4. Therefore it should be location-independent, so that the learner can use his personal PLE from every place in the world

 

 

Definitions:

 

According to W. Neuhaus (FU Berlin) definition of PLE we can understand PLE as a very personal infrastructure, which I can use to organize my learning. It might be divided in two dimensions:

The personal dimension: personal surrounding my concrete, my friends, my colleagues, my working place, the library I use to work in, etc.

And the virtuell dimension, which gives access to communication tools and searching machines and multimedia-based information.

 

More information for further reading:

The personal learning evironment blog:

http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple

Here you can find definitions of PLE, posts of people who created their own PLE and discussions how a PLE could look like, etc. 

JISC – E-learning focus

http://www.elearning.ac.uk/news_folder/ple%20event

Here you will find definitions of PLE as well as discussions, summaries of congresses about PLE, etc. 

 

Defining Elearning the 2nd

After discussing the positve and negative sides of Elearning, our 2nd task is now to find a few definitions of Elearning. 

Beside the one taken from wikipedia, which I posted last week, I found another definition on a British Elearning-webside: 

e-Learning can be defined as ‘learning facilitated and supported through the use of information and communications technology’. It can cover a spectrum of activities from the use of technology to support learning as part of a ‘blended’ approach (a combination of traditional and e-learning approaches), to learning that is delivered entirely online. Whatever the technology, however, learning is the vital element.

(taken from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/elearning.aspx

Additionally I found an interesting webside of an E-learning online journal: www.ejel.org

And to return the focus on the topic of a definition of E-learning consider this side:

http://www.ejel.org/volume-2/vol2-issue2/v2-i2-art4-tavangarian.pdf

Experiences

Wenn ich die Definition von E-Learning richtig verstehe handelt es sich dabei um ein relativ breites Feld, dass das jegliches Lernen mit Hilfe von Computern, Handy, Telefon oder TV beinhaltet.

Nun gehe ich davon aus, dass auch die Internet-Lehr-Plattformen der Universität Hamburg (Agora, educommsy) in diesen Bereich fallen. Ich habe bisher nur mit educommsy gearbeitet. Ich fand es sehr praktisch Lehrmaterialien, Stundenprotokolle, etc. online einsehen zu können und auch z. B. Hausaufgaben aller Kursteilnehmer in schriftlicher Form einsehen zu können. Gerade zum ‘später noch mal nachlesen’ ist diese Plattform vorteilhaft und leicht handhabbar.

E-Learning

E-Learning:

 

(Synonyme für E-Learning sind u.a.: Online-Lernen, Telelernen, Computer Based Training, multimediales Lernen, Open and Distance Learning, computerunterstütztes Lernen)

 

Definition: Jede Form des Lernens, bei der die Präsentation der Lerninhalte, oder die Kommunikation zwischen Lernenden/Lehrer durch den Einsatz digitaler Medien unterstützt wird.

 

Es werden verschiedene Formen des E-Learning unterschieden:

 

1.) Content Sharing: Über Webseiten werden Lerneinheiten ausgetauscht

2.) Learning Communities: Eine Lerngruppe baut sich über ein Informations- und Kommunikationssystem eine gemeinsame Wissensbasis auf. Alle streben das gleiche Lernziel an. Jedes Mitglied hat die Möglichkeit eigenes Wissen einzubringen.

3.) Virtual Classroom: Räumlich getrennte Schüler und Lehrer werden mit Hilfe des Internets verbunden.

4.) Blended Learning: Die Verbindung von Präsenzveranstaltungen mit E_Learning

5.) Computer Supported Cooperative Learning: (CSCL) Kooperatives Lernen wird durch den Einsatz computer-basierter Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme unterstützt

6.) Web Based Collaboration: Eine Gruppenarbeit, deren Gruppenmitglieder über das Internet zusammengeführt werden

7.) Whiteboard: eine digitale Tafel/Flipchart

8.) Business TV: auf eine Lerner-Zielgruppe zugeschnittenes Fernsehprogramm, dass zum Lernen anregen soll

9.) Mikrolernen: übers Handy oder das Internet werden viele kleine Lerneinheiten übertragen

10.) Prozessvisualisierung modularer Inhalte im Rahmen von E-Learning: in Film, Bild und Ton-Aufnahmen werden visuelle Darstellungen von Lerneinheiten präsentiert, die zu einem Erkenntnisprozess führen sollen

11.) 3-D-Infrastruktur-Plattform: (Action Lernen) Der Lernen findet hier die Verbindung von Spiel und Lernen in einer virtuellen Online-Welt.

Siehe dazu: http://de.secondlife.com/

 

Quelle: Wikipedia

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