7mins Student Course trailer underpinned by 7 learning theories

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Students working in groups of 5 to produce a digital artefact trailer of their course, essentially an artefact that consists of digitally record video, audio, photos, animation, screencasts, etc to capture the learning and reflection of learning on their first year of their course. The assessment output a product that is as a trailer for their course and provides reflective insight to the learning opportunity on the first year of the students course. The trailer can be set in any genre, contain any media approach; interviews with peers, academics, video of assessment, feedback, labs, field trips, etc. The resultant Digital video artefact should provide a reflective student narrative of a year in the life of themselves on their course. Essentially the technology learning approach of the video exercise has the potential to encourage multiply learning theory opportunities to be applied and promote active student learning engagement;
1. Project based learning and problem based learning activity, (Boud, 1990) as students focus on how to communicate the course learning in context not course framework, oppose in generation of how to produce such a digital artefact
2. Reflective practice narrative, as students actively encouraged to reflect on their learning as they are learning on the course, reflection as they do it, (Schön, 1987)
3. Peer learning teaching discourse, (Powell, 1998) as students share their group learning experience, but also at the trailer screening the groups learning from one another
4. Kolb’s experiential learning cycle, (Kolb, 1984); planning of the demonstration of the course learning to demonstration of the course learning to reflections on the course learning to conclusions drawn from the course learning experience
5. Patchwork quilt learning, (Gunawardena et al, 2000), the shared construction of the knowledge from the course learning; the students will need to identify learning from modules, course, extra-curriculum, institution, bring together the formal, informal and semi-formal learning experiences to a digital narrative
6. Self-regulation model and peer dialogue (selfand peer assessment), (Nicol and Macfarlane‐Dick, 2006) aids understanding of the learning in the course and convey a collective consensus of the course learning, i.e. their groups message
7. Collaborative learning (Smith and MacGregor, 1992) promoting students from passive participants in their learning experience to active participants working together to produce a learning artefact

References

Boud, D. (1990). Assessment and the promotion of academic values. Studies in higher education, 15(1), 101-111.

Gunawardena, C., Lowe, C., & Carabajal, K. (2000). Evaluating online learning: Models and methods. In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (Vol. 2000, No. 1, pp. 1677-1684).

Kolb, D. A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development (Vol. 1). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Nicol, D. J., & Macfarlane‐Dick, D. (2006). Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice. Studies in higher education, 31(2), 199-218.

Powell, J.J., (1998) Reducing Teacher Control, in Boud, D.(Ed), Developing Student Autonomy in Learning, Kogan Page: London, pp109-118

Schön, D. A. (1987). Educating the reflective practitioner (pp. 153-199). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Smith, B. L. and Jean T. MacGregor, J. T. (1992) What is Collaborative Learning? (pp9-30) in Goodsell, A. S. (Ed) (1992). Collaborative learning: A sourcebook for higher education last accessed 29th May 2013 available at http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED357705.pdf

[imogenbertin]

That sounds super! I have thought about doing this but never quite got over the hump of what happens politically/institutionally if the picture the students decide to present proves controversial.

The JISC website I found that was really helpful with thinking about the patchwork bit was: http://dpta.wordpress.com/

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