Category: Course Reader

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Kolb's Learning Styles and Social Media Tools

Review Kolb’s Learning Styles at http://www.businessballs.com/kolblearningstyles.htm or http://www.simplypsychology.org/learning-kolb.html

In a (very simplistic) nutshell:  Kolb’s Learning Cycle is a process of experience, reflection, abstraction, and experimentation, which feeds back into experience.  Kolb also classified four different types of learners based on their preferences within the learning cycle: thinking, feeling, doing, watching.

Considering all the different social media tools available, they share a fundamental function; one can be a consumer or voyeur, or one can be an active participant.  It is the difference between “watching” and “doing”, from Kolb’s learning styles.  Consider the following social media applications:

  • YouTube – Can be viewed entirely at a “consumer” level, and not as an uploader or participant.  Or, one can contribute to the community and content base; 
  • Twitter – Can be view-only, or can contribute.  Great for starting dialogue, brainstorming, quick sharing; 
  • Instagram – Photo-sharing; 
  • Pinterest – Collecting images and links, organizing and categorizing;

I realize there are many, many more social media sites available that each have their own “angle”; this is not an exercise in listing all the social media sites available, but a simplistic example to illustrate SM to Kolb’s theory.

At the “watching” level, anyone can become a consumer of the content, browsing at will, or subscribing to specific feeds or channels.  Not until participation occurs, however, does it cross into the “doing” level.

Even as watchers though, consumers can use their experiences as “feeling” for further reflection and “thinking”.  Certainly as active participants who are “doing” and interacting with the social communities, “feeling” as concrete experiences can lead to further “thinking”.  In this manner, social media applications seem to fulfill all aspects of Kolb’s learning styles.

Reference

McLeod, S. A. (2010). Kolb’s Learning Styles and Experiential Learning Cycle. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/learning-kolb.html 

#edtech, #experiential_learning, #learning, #ocTEL, #tel, #social_media, #kolb

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Kolb's Learning Styles

Tags: ocTEL, TEL, learners, learningtheory, kolbby: James Kerr

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Do affordances make that much difference or 10 things to use a mug for?

Getting back to ocTEL after a break imposed by too many other things to do, this week weve been asked to think about how different tools might relate to Kolbs model of learning styles as depicted here http://www.businessballs.com/images/kolb’s_learning_styles_businessballs.jpg.  I started off … Continue reading

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Alignment of Educational Resources

In the Quality Matters benchmark rubrics, alignment is a common thread that runs throughout the evaluation process.  It is critical for emphasizing that each piece of an online course is relevant to the topic, the setting, the audience, and the course.  Following is directly from QM:

“What is Alignment?Critical course components – Learning Objectives (2), Assessment and Measurement (3), Resources and Materials (4), Learner Engagement (5), and Course Technology (6) – work together to ensure that students achieve the desired learning outcomes. When aligned, each of these course components is directly tied to and supports the learning objectives. Specific standards included in Alignment are indicated in the rubric annotations.” (Quality Matters, 2013. https://www.qualitymatters.org/rubric)

When considering resources, I keep these guidelines for alignment in mind.  As part of the instructional design process, alignment should be a major factor being considered at every stage of the design, not just when evaluating resources.

One aspect of alignment that I find particularly interesting is style; content, audience, and course alignment are straightforward, but alignment of style seems a bit more abstract, but important nonetheless.  Does the resource fit the style of the course, the instructor, and the institution?  If the resource is an activity, does the style of the activity match the instructional level of the course?  The audience?

Alignment is a broad category that affects the overall quality of a course, whether it is f2f, online, blended, or hybrid.

#edtech, #MOOC, #ocTEL, #tel, #OER, #alignment

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+Roger Harrison re: open course reader software. have you seen this blog post by martin hawksey http:…

Phil Tubman

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:40:38 GMT
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+Roger Harrison re: open course reader software. have you seen this blog post by martin hawksey http://mashe.hawksey.info/2013/04/octel-an-open-online-course-recipe-using-wordpress/ you may also be interested in the webinar for #octel  this week where the aggregation platform is discussed in relation to connectivist practice. https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.A1A6583CCD7FD9FE71A632BF379076 4:30PM WEDS 15th May

Having recently posted the ingredients card for ocTEL I thought I flesh out some of the details and give ‘mama’s secret recipe’. Like most recipes it’s not perfect and I encourage you to …

#octel  this presentation by Jim Groom of Uni Mary Washington is an entertaining and inspirational story…

Phil Tubman

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:49:54 GMT
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#octel  this presentation by Jim Groom of Uni Mary Washington is an entertaining and inspirational story from the people who brought you DS106, and other ‘edu-punk’ stories about open pedagogy. I cannot recommend this talk enough….

http://mediasite.suny.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=a028f4a4a61840eeb88544d7e50faa201d


Jim Groom, Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington (Javascript is required to view Mediasite content). 1x. Slide Image. Share Presentation. Share Presentation Message. OK. From: Separate addresses with a semi-colon. To: Subject: Start Time: HH:MM:SS …

altoctel: RT @LUBSStudentEd: #octel people are #MOOCs saviours or nemesis of #HE? http://t.co/5upWET7xCc

RT @lubsstudented: #octel people are #MOOCs saviours or nemesis of #HE?bit.ly/13R5Ftt— ALT ocTEL course (@ALTocTEL) May 13, 2013

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altoctel: Sue is back from holiday and "doing a sherlock" http://t.co/FcY2ta5FVa What's she on about? http://t.co/MNjzOIPbDD has some #octel clues.

Sue is back from holiday and “doing a sherlock” suesoctel.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/bac… What’s she on about? octel.alt.ac.uk/course-materia… has some #octel clues.

— ALT ocTEL course (@ALTocTEL) May 13, 2013

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kerr63: Training vs. learning; watch/do vs. feel/think? #octel #tel #kolb

Training vs. learning; watch/do vs. feel/think?#octel #tel #kolb— James Kerr (@Kerr63) May 13, 2013

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OERs

OERs

OERs are always interesting. OERs provides an opportunity to use pre-created learning resources. Sometimes it could be only part of the resource that we will need. However, rather than re-inventing it is good to re-use and be sustainable.

With ocTEL the following links were provided as some interesting OER resource hubs.

Jorum and Merlot has been around for sometime, and I have used resource from these two hubs in the past. 

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