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Lesson 7: Final (Spring 2012)

Goal

• • Complete final project and the project sharing and defenses.

• Wrap-up and conclude the course

• Participate in Open Forum

Instructor's Notes

Wrap-up and Conclusions

Congratulations! You have almost finished this course. It is our last lesson in this course. In other words, we will have very intensive class work. Be sure, you participate course activities timely. Take a look for the lesson activity which will give you better ideas what activities that you should participate.

This is our last lesson. I would like you to wrap-up the course. I encourage you to submit discussion questions that you think are valuable for us to discuss to the Open Forum. Please forward your discussion questions to the instructor for approval first.

Does technology give people knowledge? If yes, then perhaps we can say that humans today are smarter than humans living without technology thousands of years ago. Is this true? Another question that we discussed is interaction throughout the semester. It seems that we agree that more interaction is what we are searching for. If this is true, we can make a statement: the more interaction the better. However, let us ask, how much is necessary? These are critical questions that I usually ask students to mull over. I would like for you to do this as well. Keeping these questions in mind will assist us to gain a better understanding about technology and to realize the meaning of life.

Readings (Powered by Del.icio.us. Consider to subscribe RSS to keep updated on reading resources.)

• • Required Readings (Finish the required readings before the lesson starts)

  • Optional Readings (More readings for you to enrich your learning, to prepare for discussions, assignments, projects etc.)

  • Resources (Resources from our classmates, ETC students, and ETC faculty.)

Activities

Lesson Discussions (4 points) Lesson Discussion Guidelines

Final Project Sharing

In the last lesson of this course, students are required to read and critique at least THREE of other student' final projects. The instructor will participate and ask each student questions based on their final project. Each student will need to respond to questions that are asked by classmates and the instructor regarding their final papers. The evaluation of this presentation will be based on how well students ask and respond to questions.

It is necessary that each person should write a short paragraph to describe their final project that gives the classmates a good overview on Delicious bookmark and a good idea what to review and evaluate. It is particularly useful if one has special components that one would like to point out.

Open Forum

Learners in an active learning process are responsible for their learning and feel that this responsibilities is very important! You are encouraged to submit discussion questions that you feel are important to be discussed in an Open Forum. Please forward your discussion questions to the instructor for approval first. Participation in the Open Forum is required as is our class discussion (2 Points). Four messages are required. Do not miss this opportunity! Questions

• • Share your learning experiences in applying unstructured (Team governance, Assignment 1 & 2 Distance Learning Theoretical Framework I & II) & structured (Web 2.0 Learning Environments)Wiki to create collaborate project.

  • Share you learning experiences in applying Diigo to annotate and evaluate students' projects.

  • Share your thoughts on the collaborative evaluations (self evaluation, and peer evaluation).

  • Share your thoughts on the team moderations.

  • In Lesson 2, we had very interesting discussions on structures vs. guidance. We may notice that our course designs are fairly different from other graduate level courses. What are you reflections on the course designs?

  • In the beginning of the semester, we research, organize, and define our own DE framework. Now you should have much better understanding in DE literature, research, and framework etc.

  • Let’s review our group DE framework, discuss will you update and modify your DE framework? If yes, why? If not, why not?

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Assignment

Assignment 3: Web 2.0 Learning Environments

• • • • Google Docs

• • Task: Collaborative writing on Web 2.0 Learning Environment:

    • Topic: Mobile Learning Research & Emerging Technologies (Use this Google Doc file to compose your content contribution collaboratively.)

  • Instructions:

    • Goals: Integrating Web 2.0 technology to generate collective intelligence to enhance online learning

    • Annual Topic: Mobile Learning

    • This final collaborative paper "may be" submitted to ICEM 2014 Hungary Conference as presentation proposals.

      • • The instructor will be the first presenter and all students will be listed co-presenters.

        • Students are highly encouraged to present this paper with the instructor if the proposal is accepted.

    • Orientation week: Each student signs up to facilitate one outline session by adding your name to that session.

    • Paper Title: Mobile Learning Research

    • Session outlines

    • Research in Mobile Learning

      • • Technology-driven mobile learning

        • Miniature but portable e-learning

        • Connected classroom learning

        • Informal, personalized, situated mobile learning, such as Location-based services/learning, Context-aware learning

        • Mobile training/performance support, and

        • Remote/Rural/Development mobile learning

        • Creative interaction in mobile learning, such as Object recognition (OR)

    • All students should

• • • • Contribute to all session regularly: at least two contributions in one lesson. More are encouraged.

      • Each contribution can be new contents and/or editing. The quality of contributions should be in scholarly writing levels.

      • Actively participate in this activity to generate high quality of collective intelligence.

      • All writing and editing would be recorded on Google Docs.

      • In each section, students should focus on these content:

        • Research

        • Practices

• • • Session facilitators should:

• • • • Encourage classmates to contribute to the session starting Lesson 1

      • Provide additionally outline/structures to guide classmates to compose and edit the session writing

      • If session facilitator notice some students are not contributing the sessions, facilitators should send them friendly reminders

      • Wrap up writing: Before deadline, ensure the session writing is completed and presentable.

      • Make sure all references are tagged to share with the classmates and all references follow the APA format.

• • • Hopefully, the final product will be valuable to present at any educational technology conference with all students' names listed as authors.

    • Evaluation criteria

• • • • Regularly contribute to all sessions

      • Quality contribution to improve overall collaborative work

      • Contributing one short sentence is too little; contributing a few paragraphs is not too much.

      • Interactive editing activities among group members must emphasize collaboration (interactive editing) in additional to division of labor (cooperation)

Assignment 4: Final Paper Proposal

Assignment 5: Final Paper: Literature Review