The aspects of cooperation and interaction are fundamental in online teaching and learning. Cooperation is important for both teachers and learners as it allows to organize online learning activities to consolidate students learning and to apply teaching strategies activating students participation and reaction to the learning stimulus. Therefore, the aspects of cooperation and interaction are key issues even in online teaching, as they are able to determine the construction and consolidation of knowledge, thus deciding the success of a learning process.
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Team teaching in the age of e-collaboration
1. TEAM TEACHING IN THE AGE OF E-COLLABORATION Flavio Manganello September, 3 2009 Universit Politecnica delle Marche Facolt di Ingegneria DIIGA
2. Online team teaching Design Evaluation Management Knowledge sharing Reciprocal help [Trentin, 1998] Co ordination Co decision Co llaboration
3. Collaborative Virtual Environment Distributed digital environment to support synchronous activities Online Cyber Classroom (1) Integrated VLE to support asynchronous activities Learning Management System (2) Common shared workspace Concurrent Multiple Access Online text chat Shared whiteboard Joint web browsing Desktop sharing Remote control Multiple users can take actions at the same time in the common shared workspace Synchronized display of the same information to all users
4. Team teaching: Home Meeting (1) Teachers have a first meeting to discuss about the course design
5. Team teaching: Home Meeting (1) Another in itinere meeting is needed to refine some aspects related to course evaluation and management
6. Team teaching: 3C (2) Asynchronous communication s flows allow teachers to remain in contact and prepare to synchronous meetings
7. Team teaching: 3C (2) An online digital archive is important to share and to exchange information and documents
8. Team teaching: Home Meeting (1) During the first online cyber classroom, the two-teachersmodel is adopted to lecture
9. Expositive lecture Broadcast model Learning is a process that goes from the teachers to the students TEACHER Knowledge provider Directive team teaching model The Fontaine de Barenton, detail (Karl Reizabech, XXth century)
10. Collaborative team teaching model Problem Based Learning Meaningful Learning [Ausubel, 1962] Scaffolding [Bruner, 1976] TEACHER Facilitator, coach From the movie Friday Night Lights (2004)
11. Team teaching models [Chen, 2004] Directive models Collaborative models Synchronous activities (online cyber classroom) Two-teachers model One concentrates on lecturing, the other one concentrates on responding to questions in the text chatroom Three-teachers model One concentrates on lecturing, the second one concentrates on responding to questions in the text chatroom, the third one concentrates on preparing material to the whiteboard Asynchronous/distributed activities Two-teachers (or tutors) Management of a community of practice or of a learning community Synchronous activities (online cyber classroom) Two-teachers (or facilitators) Management of a web seminar or of a student-led discussion
12. Some key points Definition of activities and choice of a pedagogical model Definition of technological tools Definition of an (inter)relations model among actors Teachers coordination Analysis of teachers profiles and definition of roles Management of leadership Implementation of a script Elements of project management Management of technological tools Multimedial environment
13. Reflections Teachers' step forward Personal and professional identity Performance [Maragliano, 2009] Vocation to collaboration Collaboration is a process that happens if particular instrumental abilities subsist, not only related to the technology Behavioral aspects of digital collaboration and communication Virtual Ethnography [Hine, 2000] Media Richness or Media Naturalness [Kock, 2005] Mutual confidence and trust