Word of the Week

The word of the week is online instruction.
 

In the summer, I had time to work through piles of books which had accumulated during the winter. Among others, I found interesting reading in Minna Lakkala’s doctoral thesis, which handles the instruction of collaborative knowledge production online. What I found particularly useful was a grid which helped analyze the pedagogic realization of learning projects. So that a web course can support the social production of knowledge, it has to give technical and social support and, above all, offer assistance in processing information and assessing its origin. It is useful to highlight the last two points in particular, as they seem to receive little attention in teaching, which shows as superficiality in online discussions. According to Lakkala, teachers should formulate information practices which the students can’t handle themselves – for example, the development of ideas and critical assessment of learning habits. Excellent: this will be our number one task!

Previous Words of the Week online instruction ( vk 35 - 2010 ) user survey ( vk 34 - 2010 ) Learning Environments -programme ( vk 33 - 2010 ) tweet ( vk 32 - 2010 ) officialese ( vk 26 - 2010 ) facilitator ( vk 25 - 2010 ) feedback response time ( vk 24 - 2010 ) one-to-one communications ( vk 23 - 2010 ) trialogic ( vk 22 - 2010 ) Learn Chat ( vk 21 - 2010 ) group blog ( vk 20 - 2010 ) customer service ( vk 19 - 2010 ) communications director ( vk 18 - 2010 ) online conversation ( vk 17 - 2010 ) Powerhouse ( vk 16 - 2010 ) eTeacher ( vk 15 - 2010 ) online assessment ( vk 14 - 2010 ) collective intelligence ( vk 13 - 2010 ) network communications guideline ( vk 12 - 2010 ) response time ( vk 11 - 2010 ) e-book ( vk 10 - 2010 ) usercontent ( vk 9 - 2010 ) SarcMark ( vk 8 - 2010 ) virtual brown-nosing ( vk 7 - 2010 ) net police ( vk 6 - 2010 ) netspeak ( vk 5 - 2010 ) tone control ( vk 4 - 2010 ) specialist culture ( vk 3 - 2010 ) communication guidelines ( vk 2 - 2010 ) annual review ( vk 1 - 2010 ) webinar ( vk 53 - 2009 ) web exercise ( vk 52 - 2009 ) profile machine ( vk 51 - 2009 ) retweet ( vk 50 - 2009 ) Twitter ( vk 49 - 2009 ) link ( vk 48 - 2009 ) Facebook group ( vk 47 - 2009 ) textrovert ( vk 46 - 2009 ) web meeting ( vk 45 - 2009 ) wiki thinking ( vk 44 - 2009 ) PLE ( vk 43 - 2009 ) spiral model ( vk 42 - 2009 ) newsletter ( vk 41 - 2009 ) FWK ( vk 40 - 2009 ) Identity theft ( vk 39 - 2009 ) smiley ( vk 38 - 2009 ) F2F discussion ( vk 37 - 2009 ) moderate ( vk 36 - 2009 ) usability ( vk 35 - 2009 ) utility ( vk 34 - 2009 ) digital native ( vk 33 - 2009 ) copyright ( vk 32 - 2009 ) pecha kucha ( vk 31 - 2009 ) slideshow ( vk 30 - 2009 ) IAT ( vk 29 - 2009 ) FAQ ( vk 28 - 2009 ) textism ( vk 27 - 2009 ) text message ( vk 26 - 2009 ) media language ( vk 25 - 2009 )