The slides can be found here : tinyurl.com/edenone
Great session focusing on Teacher presence (by MartiCleveland-Innes) and great idea of shared metacognition (by Randy Garrison).
Related to the Community of Inquiry model.
Related to the Community of Inquiry model.
Marti Cleveland-Innes speaks on Community of Inquiry which can
be used as a model for different educational settings, both digital and
physical.
Interesting idea of moving from teaching to teacher
presence, where each one of us can be the teacher in a community.
Context is changing, this means roles are changing. This is
more about teaching and learning, making a transition like this can make a
significant contribution to the higher educational reform.
Student demographics will change, and with different
characteristics. The employment factory demands different graduates (or with
other skills).
Pressure on higher ed is not about technology, it is a
matrix and technology has an effect on the whole society. The pressure on
higher ed is higher than at any other given moment in time.
We are teaching students that are no longer living under the
same conditions as when the educational institutes were set up.
CoI is all about creating an educational experience, which
can help us with some of the contemporary conditions and pressures.
Drivers for higher education change: the ed institutes need
to morph into the current challenges. We shall all be engaging and learning
with others collaboratively.
Teaching presence: the design and organisation ,
facilitation and direction of cognitive and social processes to realize
personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile learning outcomes. The
opportunities for students to participate in each of these components of
teaching presence. We can empower the learners and engage them in a way that
are meaningful to them.
The best way to measure whether these elements were present
or not. There are 4 design and organisation factors: communicating important
course topics, clearly communicate important course goals, provide clear
instructions on how to participant in course learning activities, communicate…
(see slide)
Facilitation is key… identifying areas of agreement and
disagreement, guiding the class towards understanding, keep course participants
engaged and participating in constructive dialogue, explor new concepts,
reinforced the development of a sense of community.
Direct instruction: focus discussion on relevant issues,
help to understand strengths and weaknesses, provide feedback in a timely
fashion.
Teaching teaching presence: faculty needs to learn, and be
given the opportunity to understand the learning. Learning how to teach is through
teacher presence, by teaching. The CoI model serves as course design and
delivery. Pedagogy involves observing and modelling the online teaching
practices of expert distance educators. A high-tech, high-touch approach
provides the most effective means of assuring quality student learning and
satisfaction.
Translation into practice: critical to impact on higher ed
reform is that students will be enabled to play a more active role (purposeful)
and faculty realise this. Make students participate in teacher presence, in
teaching. Sharing teaching is the most important part of the Community of
Inquiry, as well as being emotionally present.
Shared metacognition (Randy Garrison talking)
Thinking and learning collaboratively. Metacognition is
central to Inquiry.
Regulating learning (between cognitive and teaching
presence) is the situated area for metacognition.
Goal of CoI is constructing another level of awareness.
Explicitly recognizing co-regulating of metacognition, and
individual as well as shared learning processes.
Self- and co-regulated functions, each of which include monitoring
and managing cognitive and teaching responsibilities. (Inge note: I realllly
like this!!!). Shared metacognition.
They did a construct validation pilot study, data from 167
participants, from a 54 item questionnaire. In the final questionnaire the
elements were reduced from 54 to 26 items.
Two factor solution analysis was used (looking it up),
followed by a four factor analysis conducted to extract monitoring and
management subcomponents. Big challenge to separate monitoring from management.
Look up references from Garrison and Akyol (2011, 2013, 2015).
Randy promotes shared metacognition as an interesting future
research topic.
The questionnaire was built coming from the CoI model. Now,
I want to connect to Randy (remark from myself).
