ED403 My Learning Journey

It is yet another insightful session. Let’s share and reflect! As new learning resources and technologies are available, the way we teach, learn and assess are also changing. Whether the changes are for the better depends on the educators’ maximal utilization of the available learning tools and resources. Indeed, the onus is on us. We are educators as much as learners in our pursuit of greatness. We need to be creative. Innovate learning environment that are engaging, interactive, relevant, flexible, personal and profound. Importantly, our knowledge and skills in ICT need to stay updated and current. There are scores of digital tools and media resources that are available. Technology and media although often used interchangeably, have distinct definitions (Bates, 2019). In education, technologies are basically tools that can be used to teach, learn and assess. While media is an act of creation of content and/or communication, that which intermediates or interprets (Bates, 2019). In e...

My ED403 learning journey begin with a interesting read from Teaching in a Digital Age by Tony Bates (2016). From the start, my conception about online learning is steered towards the right direction. Bates clearly pointed out that online learning is not merely moving method of classroom teaching and assessments online. That won't change a thing. He puts it eloquently, "it is lack of imagination" that restrict us from designing an immersive learning experiences. I realized that the concept of flexibility and personalization are key in online learning. From the three models of TEL, Community of Inquiry (CoI) conveys a fundamental fact about online learning, it's an collaborative, engaging, and interactive community. There're seven (7) principles outlined by Vaughan, Cleveland-Innes and Garrison, (2013) that I find useful in TEL. I can fulfil principle 4 by integrating problem based assessments such as case studies after each module have been covered. Case study eva...