Week 2: Overview, Readings and Resources

Read and View

Teaching perspectives

• Bates, A.W. (2015). 11.2 Nine steps to to quality teaching in a digital age, Teaching in a Digital Age, Retrieved from http://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/
  
  
• Pratt, D. and Collins, J.B. (2001).Teaching Perspectives Inventory
  Note: Pressed for time? Just read Step 1: Decide how do you want to teach? (4 pages) 
  Take the survey - your results will be emailed to you.  Review “Reflecting on TPI Results” and “What are the 5 perspectives”
  
  

• Carleton University Media Server (2014) Educational Development Centre, Benefits and Challenges of Online Education, retrieved from https://mediaserver.carleton.ca/library/benefits-and-challenges-of-online-education
  Video - 7:26, Benefits and Challenges of Online Teaching

Teaching in a Connected World

• Contact North (2013) A New Pedagogy is Emerging - and Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor, Trends & Directions, Evolving Pedagogy, Ontario Online Learning Portal for Faculty and Instructors, retrieved from http://contactnorth.ca/trends-directions/evolving-pedagogy-0/new-pedagogy-emergingand-online-learning-key-contributing 

• Jacobsen, M. (Fall, 2014) Teaching in a Participatory Digital World, Education Canada. Vol.54, Issue 4, retrieved from http://www.cea-ace.ca/education-canada/article/teaching-participatory-digital-world 
  
  
• Bates, T. (Aug 22, 2014) Key characteristics of learners in a digital age and their influence on the design of teaching and learning (blog post)
  • Note the paragraphs discussing increasing diversity and age of students.

• Carleton University Media Server (2014) Educational Development Centre, Benefits and Challenges of Online Education, retrieved from https://mediaserver.carleton.ca/library/benefits-and-challenges-of-online-education
  Video - 5:44, Benefits and Challenges of Online Learning

Online Learning Theories

• Vaughan, N., Cleveland-Innes, M., & Garrison, D. (2013). Conceptual Framework. In Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry (pp. 7-18). Athabasca: AU Press. Retrieved from http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120229  
  
  
• Bates, A.W. (2015). 4.1 Online learning and teaching methods  Teaching in a Digital Age, Retrieved from http://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/4-1-online-learning-and-teaching-methods/ 

Learning Theories - REVIEW

Note: These resources are intended to refresh your memory of specific learning theories or to visualize the different beliefs about how people learn. Dig in according to your own interests. 

• A Visual Primer On Learning Theory, 01/11/2013, TeachThought Staff
  
  
• Smith, M. K. (2011). Learning theory. In The encyclopedia of informal education.
  
  
• Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L. & Cocking, R.L. (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, National Research Council, National Academy Press (ebook)
  Note Chapter 8: Teacher Learning
  
  
• Conner, Marcia L. (2002). A Primer on Educational Psychology. Institute of Training & Occupational Learning (ITOL) Journal, (January). (Cog, Behav, Constructivism, Humanism). Copyright Marcia Conner.

Learning Styles - REVIEW

• (YouTube, 6:55 min). Professor Daniel Willingham describes research showing that learning styles are a myth
  
  
• Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2008). Learning Styles: Concepts & Evidence. Psychological Sciences in the Public Interest, 9 (3), 105-119.
  Note: A quick scan of this article will do