Benefit of communication (teacher-student ; student – student)
Media-Synchronicity Theory
Design Process
Designing the teaching and learning process
Benefit of Communication (Teacher - Student & Student - Student )
Online Teaching with or without Communication
Benefit of Communication
Media Synchronicity Theory
Media Synchronicity Theory
Conclusions:
For convergence (negotiation, evaluation etc.), use media of high synchronicity (high feedback, low parallelism).
For conveyance,(Divergence, Collecting ideas) use media of low synchronicity. (low feedback, high parallelism, high eprocessability).
For newly formed groups use media of high synchronicity.
Over time, less high synchronicity is needed.
For established groups less high synchronicity is needed.
When to teach synchonously, when to use asynchronous media?
Designing Process
Designer
If an architect creates a plan for a building, his creative act still has to follow certain laws.
A course designer has also to repect certain aspect
Create a storyboard of your course step by step
Step 1 We decide, how many houres self-directed online Learning and how many Live-Lessons LL or Individual Mentoring IM sessions should be offered per week.
Step 2 Then we decide how many weeks the course will last.
Step 3 Create a time grid with WEEKS as columns and the communication channels as rows.
Step 4 Fill in Post-it Notes for activities, learning resources, assignments , formative quizzes and tests and stick them into corresponding cells into grid.
Step 5 Verify logical structure of learning processes, check the comprehensiveness of the course content and and adjust students’ workload.
Step 6 Create a holistic learning experience where every learning activity relates to other elements of the course.
Resulting outline of your course
In this phase of planning you can include formative tests, mock exams, exams, etc. so that regular retrieval learning takes place in the learning process. We will develop the concrete tests and quizzes at a later date.
The resulting outline of your course serves you and your team as a planning tool during the entire production process. Now the work can be organized in a collaborative way. Someone will create the website, others will collect and design the learning resources, and finally all the pieces will be put together on the website.