Session 2 - Online educational websites and Planning your training program

Educational Video Resources

There are lots of different online educational video resources available. Some specifically designed for education and some that have both educational and entertainment value. Here are just a few of the Education Specific Video sites.

Teacher Tube:

http://www.teachertube.com/

Ted and TedED

If you haven't visited and watched a TED talk yet, now is a great time to do it. Many hours can be lost here that's for sure.

http://www.ted.com/

Lots of playlists that you can choose from

And my choice:

http://ed.ted.com/

TEDEd allows you to build lessons around a TED Talk or YouTube video.

MIT Video

http://video.mit.edu/ 

and my choice was:

http://video.mit.edu/watch/letterlocking-triangle-shaped-paper-lock-with-vertical-stab-or-slit-italy-and-england-1580s-1700s-28525/

Open Yale

Similar to MIT

http://oyc.yale.edu/

National Geographic Video

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/

And HEAPS of others

http://videolectures.net/

http://academicearth.org/

http://aso.gov.au/  Not really educational, but I love this site

http://cosmolearning.org/

http://www.mathtv.com/

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/online/

This is just few of the websites that give you access to free online educational content.

Online Learning Tools Assessment Task 2

Choose 5 of the above Video Websites and using the criteria below, evaluate and write up results in your Blog - create a new post in previously used blog.. If necessary, choose a topic that you would like to learn about.

• details about the learning site, tool or tutorial
• A rank of how easy it was to find (either stars or rank of between 1 and 5)
• A rank of how easy it was to use
• A rank about how well it covered the topic
• An overall rank about how you felt about the learning experience.

TAEDEL401A - Planning a course and sharing the load

Planning your course (and lessons)

This is the beginning of your assessment tasks for this unit. The preparation, discussions and planning will done in groups - your training colleagues.

In today's session, we will address these 2 areas:

1.3.    Identify and assess constraints and risks to delivery
1.4.    Confirm personal role and responsibilities in planning and delivering training with relevant personnel

Each group has been given a unit from the CUL11 training package (or an imported unit).

I have purposely selected units that are at a certificate III level or lower.

The documents that you have been provided with can be found at the training.gov.au website. They will provide you with all of the information you need to plan, create resources and deliver your unit.

The documents are broken into:

The Elements and Performance Criteria

This outlines the competencies that need to be covered in the lessons for the unit. What students should be able to do at the end of the unit

The required Skills and Knowledge

The Skills and Knowledge that will be used by the students to meet the performance criteria and the evidence requirements.

The evidence guide

Provides assessment guidelines - what the students need to be able to prove that they can do and be assessed on.

The Range Statement

This area defines some of the terminology within the elements and performance criteria (bold italic type) and the variety of tasks that could be undertaken as part of the assessment.

Activity 1 - PLANNING your program

Take into account the number of hours allocated to the unit
Take into account that each member of the group will be delivering 2 half hour sessions

As a group, plan and document how you will deliver your unit. Your plan should include:

• The number of lessons (using above criteria)
• Who will be delivering each lesson
• The learning outcomes of each lesson - i.e. the Elements and performance criteria and the required skills and knowledge.
• How you will assess the unit

Each individual student will then be required to complete a session plan for their 2 sessions. We will look at the template for this next week. This week is about planning the subject, bot about individual sessions.

Please keep this document - it will form part of your assessment once the session plans are added and MUST be submitted to be graded. DO NOT LOSE IT. Make sure that someone responsible is in charge of saving and maintaining the file and collecting the session plans when complete.

Although this is a group task, each student will be accountable for their own session plans and delivery.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/rto/Pages/purchasingguides.aspx

Session 1 - Introduction to online Learning Tools and Training

What cool things do you want to learn?

Before you embark on a new learning adventure, you need to work out what it is you need or want to learn. It could be a change of career, enhancing your knowledge for your career or personal interest, learning a new technology, equipping yourself for industry change or just a thirst for life long learning.

Once you make a decision about what you might want to learn, the Internet offers many different methods that you can use to develop the skills that you need. From YouTube videos on just about anything, to blogs and forums, facebook groups and organisations, online universities, iTunesU, informative websites, corporate or vendor technical support websites etc.

Assessment Task 1 (a)

Your assessment will be in the form of Blog Posts - there will be 5 in total, each worth 20% of your grade. You may use Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr or if you already have an existing Blog, you may use that. Your Blog URL is to be provided on the Assessment task upload button that is in week 1. Your Blog must be set to public OR you must add me as a reader or share with me so that I can see your posts.

Before we go to the first task, think of a skill (or skills) that you would like to learn or something that you would like to know more about. INCLUDE THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FIRST POST.

Online Resources - YouTube

YouTube is an infinite resource on just about anything you can think of. Just to prove this, I started to put in "Using a " in the search box. I was going to put in "Using a slow cooker" as I have just bought a cheap one to try and see whether I would get some use out of it before I invested in a decent one. This is what showed up.

 As I said - you can find a video on pretty much anything you want to.

Once I completed the slow cooker search, I came up with a variety of YouTube videos that I can view to see whether they are of any use.

YouTube also has Channels - Channels are people, groups or organisations that you can subscribe to and view all of their videos.

Assessment Task 1 (b)

Using the skill that you thought of earlier, find 5 YouTube videos that you think cover the topic adequately and post the results in your blog.

For each video you find you are to include:

• a brief description of the content 
• quality of the production
• whether it was what you expected based on description
• a star rating out of 5

iTunesU

If you are a fan of iTunes, then you will love iTunesU. iTunesU is Apple's education precinct. It allows educators to set up whole courses for students to access with many major universities offering resources via iTunesU for free. There is also "an app for that". If you have an iOS device such as an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch you can download the iTunesU app. It is optimised for use with an iPad, but there are still heaps of sites that you can access from your browser/iTunes app.

Here are some examples of some of the well known colleges/universities that have offerings on iTunes U

http://itunes.stanford.edu/

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/teaching-learning/innovation/la-trobe-on-itunesu

If you need to download iTunes, you can download it from here
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Assessment Task 1 (c)

Locate 5 Australian Universities or TAFE colleges that are on iTunes U and post the links to your BLOG

Locate 5 lessons, articles or courses on iTunes U that have piqued your interest and that you think you can learn something interesting from. Provide details of the course such as the Title and Institution. What is it that made you select these particular items?

Post the responses to the above on your Blog.

TAEDEL401A - Learning Theories

Learning Theories and styles

There are a number of Learning Theories that have been developed over time and that address various aspects of how people learn. Before we start to design our training sessions, it is important to know that there are different types of learners, with each type responding better to a particular teaching method.

http://www.learning-theories.com/

http://www.aussieeducator.org.au/education/other/theories.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles

http://learningfordummies.wikispaces.com/home

Bloom

From Wikipedia:
"Bloom's taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). It divides educational objectives into three "domains": cognitive, affective, and psychomotor (sometimes loosely described as "knowing/head", "feeling/heart" and "doing/hands" respectively). Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels. A goal of Bloom's taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfp3x_qx5IM

Social Cognitive Theory

One of the core concepts of SCT is that learning occurs through observation. Teachers, parents and peers can all act as models for the students to observe and learn behaviour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4gmdl3zNQ&list=PL5F92C6475BA0298F

Kolb

In the early 1970s, Kolb and Ron Fry (now both at the Weatherhead School of Management) developed the Experiential Learning Model (ELM) composed of four elements:

•     concrete experience,
•     observation of and reflection on that experience,
•     formation of abstract concepts based upon the reflection,
•     testing the new concepts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A30NnrkwFmQ

Fleming

VARK Model

http://vark-learn.com/introduction-to-vark/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRWnz7tppWk

Class Activity

How do you learn? Take the test to find out how you learn best using the VARK model

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire

OR

http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml

Share your results and whether you think it is accurate or not