Learning+Outocmes

SUE: Hi Everyone

Here is how I see the learning outcomes teased out of our abstract submitted to Maggie. Look forward to your thoughts.

When developing our activity content it is important to consider the thrust of our abstract submitted to Maggie, so weaving in some of the thoughts below in an ICT in global education context is important. I have plucked out the abstract questions from my initial post the other day of learning points and tucked them under each learning outcome so you can see how I perceive we could cover these points off.

First up is marketing. Just a suggestion - maybe Nourah if you took the angle of learning outcome 1 and Wendy the angle of learning outcome 2 perhaps?

Nourah: Hi Gang, I am trying to decide how many questions to put up for thought discussions. 1 broad questions as below so that students can choose which marketing factor to look into? 2 questions of which 1 they must answer? What do you guys think? thanks

NOURAH: This looks awesome Sue. I am happy to look at either LO 1 or 2.. Wendy which do you prefer to do? Perhaps we can talk about this a bit so that we can decide which LO best fits which activity. I think its important for us all to be involved with each others' activities although one of us will be leading. Seeing as we know the readings/topics best we will have a lot to add to discussions etc that I think will make for a rich learning environment for our peers.

Nourah : I am trying to keep the thought discussion fairly simple.. I thought to have the question as follows: Comment on how one of the follwing marketing factors influence the global uptake on ICT in education: Massification Expansion Diversification Heterogeneity Customer satisfaction Customer service

What do you guys think... too simple?

** LEARNING OUTCOMES – TOPIC 1 MARKETING ** Resources: Reading: 16 and our own resource material

Mode of delivery: Activity 1 thought discussion Nourah Activity 2 research activity Wendy

** Students who successfully complete this seminar will be able to: **

1. Evaluate, contrast and compare how the following generic marketing factors found in a commercial /educational situation influence the global uptake of ICT in education: -  · Market drivers  · Massification  · Expansion  · Diversification  · Heterogeneity <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> · Customer satisfaction <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> · Customer service

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · What drives successful marketisation of education <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · Impacting factors on the marketing of educational organization – massification, expansion, diversification, heterogeneity, customer satisfaction, customer service <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · Likeness and difference marketing in the business world V marketing in education

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. Examine the “student as customer” concept in relation to its influence on the global uptake of ICT in education and educational practice.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> · Student as customer <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> · Feasibility of customer label being applied to student <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> · Does this label make students faceless to us educators becoming too businesslike making us forget about pastoral care, learning styles, culture and diversity

Then on to culture - Gabi if I take learning outcome 1 which weighs in most of our abstract and you took learning outcome 2 which focusses just on the technology use aspect - just a thought, then leaves you a bit more free to work on the website and associated techo problems that we may encounter and to hold the chair as well. WENDY: I will pick up LO 2 - under marketing

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">LEARNING OUTCOMES – TOPIC 2 CULTURE ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources: Reading: 17 and our own resource material

Mode of Delivery: Activity 3 Wiki Activity Gabi Activity 4 Synchronous Discussion Sue (synchronous guest speak then followed by a Stream synchronous discussion - will post more detail of this tonite Gabi - working on it together with a proposed detailed timeline - an expanded version of our timeline submitted to Maggie - will have activity detail posted tonite and timeline detail posted tomorrow )

(GB): Hey Sue. I was planning to run an annotated bibliography through the wiki, which doesn't fit very well with LO2 at all. Any ideas/thoughts?

HI Sue, I'm going to concentrate on LO3 strategies, since it's an area we seem to have overlooked, and critical in any examination of cultural issues in the uptake of ICT. Sooooo...can you cover LO2 as part of your synchronous discussion, even briefly, or shall we delete it altogether. I can't cover both as it would make my activity too big and too broad, and the topics are not really related.

SUE: Hi Gabi - re the annotated bio for LO 2 - we have moved on from that question eh - now I will take LO2 and weave it in with LO1 in my section. (GB): ok cool, so I dont have to worry? If you want me to change your website activity, you'll need to put instructions in my 'to do list' on website page. Also, sorry bout this sue, can't seem to do anything about it, but we are very short on space, because you've written a lot more for your acivity than website allows. if you want to add something, you might need to consider taking something away. only way around it seem to be to 'upgrade' the website...which means $$$$

** Students who successfully complete this seminar will be able to: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. Critically evaluate from a teaching and learning perspective how our cultural capital as students and educators impacts upon the uptake of ICT in education. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · Cultural capital that we as local and global individuals bring to education organizations <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · Enhancement, development, fostering, recruitment of international students from the perspective of student, staff and organization <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · International Reflections – educators to think more deeply about interactions and practice with international students <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · How do cultural factors affect the uptake of ICT <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> · What does culture bring to educational understanding

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. Examine and identify in a cultural context global differences in the use of education technologies. · Identifiable global cultural differences in the use of ICT e.g. SMS v LMS

3. Examine strategies for overcoming cultural barriers in the use of educational technologies.
 * inclusive instructional design
 * culture-related flexibility in online learning environments
 * cultural awareness