Synchronising Informal and Formal Learning Spaces to Facilitate Collaborative Online Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Anneke Venter
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Learning Spaces

Affective digital presence: How to free online writing and drawing?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Gilbert ◽  
Miranda Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Online Writing ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Emancipatory Learning ◽  
Online Experience

Online learning can be an alienating experience; students can feel their emotions are disregarded, marginalized or even viewed as hindrances as they try to motivate themselves to learn, staring at the dancing pixels of their illuminated screens. They feel at a remove from other students, trapped in other rooms, far away from them. The closeness of bodies in a shared physical space is raised as an absence. And yet, we contend in this article that connecting with affect in online learning spaces could build connectivity that counteracts the alienation of social distancing. Raw creative affective discourses can be challenging, and uncomfortable for others to take in but they are necessary online. We show that using non-digital practices such as drawing and writing freely, without inhibitions, can immeasurably enhance the online experience, giving a space for affect to be expressed in a safe but emancipatory learning architecture.

scholarly journals EMERGENCE OF INFORMAL LEARNING SPACE IN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS: A COMPARATIVE SCENARIO IN THE CONTEXT OF KHULNA CITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Sourav ◽  
◽  
D. Afroz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

Ancient education system was developed from a semi-outdoor environment. While developing the learning spaces it developed into indoor environment to ensure controlled environment, focus, discipline and compactness. These properties lead to formal education and formal learning space which replaced the informal learning environment. Formal learning space usually drive students towards a single expertise or knowledge. The limitations and boredom of formal education often causes depression and annoy towards education that result in limited learning and one-sided education. This research indicates the role of “informal learning environment” which helps university students to achieve multi-disciplinary knowledge through a simple, contextual and informal way. To establish the emergence, we tried to do a quantitative analysis among the students studying different universities in Khulna city. We have tried to understand the perspective of the students whether they feel the importance of informal learning or not in their daily life. While working on this paper, we have experienced unique scenario for each university but by any means Khulna University and Khulna University of Engineering & Technology serves their student the environment where students can meet and share knowledge with their natural flow of gossiping with food or drinks while Northern University of Business & technology and North-Western University have shown different scenario.

Readiness for Online Learning of Teachers of Secondary Schools in the Division of Antique

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-120
Author(s):  
Edward E. Baña ◽  
Runato A. Basañes, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
School Year ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Learning Readiness

In the advent of CoViD 19 pandemic, education sector around the world try to ensure learning continuity for children and youth through different learning delivery modalities. In most cases, efforts involve the use of various digital platforms featuring educational content, and a variety of educational technology (EdTech) solutions to keep communication and learning spaces as open and stimulating as possible (Moreno & Gortazar, 2020). Realizing the advantages of online learning deliviery of lessons, this study study aimed to determine the readiness of teachers for online learning in the Division of Antique for School Year 2020-2021 as basis for the development of a strategic plan for effective adoption of of online. Specifically, it sought answers to the following questions: Keywords: Online Learning Readiness, Information and Communications Technology, ICT Strategic Plan

Getting “Girly” Online

2018 ◽  
pp. 871-889
Author(s):  
Jen Almjeld
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Gender Disparity ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Online Spaces

While MOOCs and other fully online educational spaces and tools continue to proliferate at institutions of higher education, some worry over a persistent gender gap in online learning (Paul, 2014; Straumsheim, 2013). As debate continues regarding the existence of a digital gender divide, the perception of the gap may be enough to give female learners the idea that digital learning spaces are not for them. Females particularly may be silenced in MOOCs and other online spaces not by instructors or fellow learners, but by cultural expectations. I offer here reflections on two fully online girlhood studies courses interrogating notions of gender performance, norms, and scripts as successful models for positioning gender disparity as a teaching tool rather than a barrier to learning. The piece ends with six recommendations—most rooted in feminist pedagogy—for making MOOCs more welcoming to all genders and learners.

scholarly journals Entangled Narratives: How Literate Histories of Early Childhood Educators Expand Possibilities Within Online Learning Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Kim Stewart ◽  
Candace Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Being And Becoming

Feminist ways of being allow us to be vulnerable and willing to admit doubt and to live expanded views of early childhood education and teaching.These practices are characterized by a love ethic, attending to entanglements of heartmindbody. In this article, we rely on entangled narratives between ourselves and early childhood educators asking how valuing entangled relationships can expand creative possibilities within onlinelearning spaces. We draw from experiences within the newly established University of New Brunswick online bachelor of education in early childhood. Our research unfolds with a desire to value literate histories often silenced—sometimes lost—within standardized, institutional ways of being and becoming.

scholarly journals Exploring Complex Learning Spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Wood ◽  
Paul Warwick
Keyword(s):  
Formal Learning ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Experimental Learning ◽  
Seminar Room ◽  
Lecture Theatre ◽  
The University ◽  
Learning Ecologies

This project focuses on developing an understanding of the complexity of learning spaces which are inhabited by students in higher education institutions. Developing work already carried out by the project leaders on experimental learning spaces within the university, this is a project which aims to gain a better understanding of the ‘learning lives’ of students beyond the formal learning spaces such as the lecture theatre, laboratory and seminar room. Using a mixed methods approach focusing on survey and photo-ethnographic methods data will be developed from the general to the particular to investigate the other spaces which students use to develop their learning. These spaces include both physical and virtual spaces, as well as on and off campus spaces, including cafes, libraries, study bedrooms as well as virtual learning environments and social networking/Web 2.0 technologies. This research intends to consider the complex interplay of these different spaces in the learning of students and also how they relate to the formal spaces of which we have a clearer understanding. This project will therefore aid academics in better understanding the dynamics of the learning ecologies which underpin the experiences of students within the university.

A Learner-Centered Design Framework for E-Learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Fasso ◽  
Cecily Knight ◽  
Bruce Allen Knight
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Learner Performance ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Learning Domains ◽  
E Learning

This paper presents a design framework for online learning. The framework is based upon the taxonomy devised by Dettmer (2006). In a learner-centered focus, it draws together the cognitive, affective, social, and sensorimotor domains of learning, and is situated with the concept of online personal learning spaces and environments. It is at this intersection of learning domains that the graduate attributes and general capabilities of students are able to be intentionally supported and demonstrated. The proposed framework draws on recognized theory, principles, and practical considerations of contemporary online learning to clarify considerations of the learning outcomes, learning processes and learner performance when designing online learning that is mediated by education technology. This integrative approach will support mentored, reflective learning design and design-based research aimed at improving both the experience and outcomes of online students. The paper contends that this framework presents a useful design that reflects the nature of contemporary online learning environments.

scholarly journals The virtual faikava: Maintaining vā and creating online learning spaces during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Todd M Henry ◽  
S. Apo Aporosa
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
Relational Space ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Collectivist Cultures ◽  
At Home

Covid-19 has had a major impact on collectivist cultures and their means of social interaction and maintaining contact with those in their wider community. This has particularly been the case for Pacific peoples living in diaspora, with Covid-19 preventing travel home and social distancing and forced lockdowns restricting the ability to gather. This has also impacted vā, the Pacific concept of ‘relational space’ critical to connectivity and maintaining relationships. This paper explains the creation of virtual faikava; online meeting environments in which Pacific kava users meet, maintain vā, connect with those at home and in the wider diasporic community and learn, while consuming their traditional beverage kava.

scholarly journals TIKTOK’S PEER PEDAGOGIES - LEARNING ABOUT BOOKS THROUGH #BOOKTOK VIDEOS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Luigi Dezuanni
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Young People ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Australian Study ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Books And Reading ◽  
The Relationship

This paper eschews normative constructions of formalized ‘online learning’ to argue that learning with ‘the internet’ is mostly vernacular, ordinary, messy and constant. It uses the example of #booktok short videos to argue that individuals frequently learn from and with peers in online spaces, where ‘peerness’ is defined broadly. The paper draws on traditions within education, media and communications research such as theories of media pedagogies that refuse to see learning as pedagogically isolated within formal learning arrangements. I build on these foundations to conceptualize how TikTok viewers learn about books and reading via ‘peer pedagogies’. ‘Peer Pedagogies’ recognizes that in digital contexts individuals often learn from other individuals, regardless of if the ‘teacher’ in the relationship is directly known to the learner, and regardless of if ‘teaching’ is intended or purposeful. For instance, peer pedagogies and learning are frequently central characteristics of the relationships that form between ‘micro-celebrities’ and their fans. The paper discusses findings from an ongoing nationally funded Australian study which is mapping the digital ecology of teen reading in Australia. The project argues that one avenue for teens to find out about books is on digital platforms via peer pedagogies. That is, teenagers may purposefully or casually learn about books and reading from everyday users and micro-celebrities on digital platforms. The TikTok #booktok hashtag is therefore being investigated to identify examples of how young people learn about books and reading via TikTok videos and associated communities.

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