Assignment 7
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The document discusses trends in online learning such as personal learning environments, informal online learning, social networks, and technology. It notes that personal learning environments allow learners more control over their learning by setting goals and managing content from multiple sources. It also describes how the rise of social networking and technologies that combine social and learning tools will impact education by making learning more student-centered, collaborative, and accessible through mobile devices.
Assignment 7
- 1. Trends in Online Learning • Personal Learning Environments • Informal Online Learning • Social Networks • Technology
- 2. Personal Learning Environments • Allows learners to take more control and management of their own learning. • Allows a learner to set his/her own goals, manage content, and define his or her own learning process. • Multiple learning sources are available to the learner.
- 3. Levels of Personal Learning Environments • Grades K-12 • Students at these grade levels are becoming more and more tech savvy and technology skilled every year. • Educators need to capitalize on this to increase success in the online learning format using Web 2.0 tools and social networks. • College • Students at this level can develop a mindset which allows them to manage their time better and can grasp concepts on a deeper level.
- 4. Benefits of Informal Learning Promotes life-long learning Encourages collaboration through blogging and social networks Promotes instructors to use multiple sources of learning within a network
- 5. Trends in Social Networking From 2005 to 2013, there has been a dramatic rise in the use of social networking in the United States.
- 6. Trends in Social Networking, cont’d Nearly three quarters of all internet users use at least one social network
- 7. Technology and Social Networking Social networking technologies combined with various learning tools will create an effective use of technology in the future.
- 8. Technology and Social Networking • Grades K-12 • Teaching will become more outcome-based and student-centered • Application of knowledge will be stressed • College Level • Content driven learning management systems will be enhanced • Expansion of online resources as a result of technology • Corporate Environment • Developments in technology allow for reduced travel time and expense and decreased costs for training
- 9. How will the trends in online learning affect students?
- 10. • Personal Learning Environments • The course will become more student- centered rather than driven by the instructor • Informal Online Learning • Informal learning will become more of the norm and more widely accepted • Social Networks • Social networks will allow for more collaboration among students which will lead to a more student-centered course • Technology Development • As technology becomes more widespread and students have more access to technology in the mobile world, educational opportunities will increase.
Editor's Notes
- Keeping up to date with online learning trends is beneficial to both students and instructors.
- Today’s online learners, in an ever-changing global learning environment, can develop personal learning environments for themselves to ensure they are successful.
- Different levels of online learning create different degrees of PLEs.
- Collaboration is the key it enables the possibility of life-long learning.
- This increase can be seen across all age groups.
- And this is just in the United States alone!
- Some of the most widely used websites provide access for students to gather data and perform research.
- The impact of technology combined with social networking will affect all levels of academia as well as the corporate workplace.
- Students will become more motivated as they take more control over their learning.