5.+Videos

The following videos have influenced my ideas about E-Learning during the semester:

﻿ At the beginning of the semester I viewed this video and felt it really gave me some insight into to the way my potential students approach learning and that e-learning as a great option for engaging them with their learning experiences. Fiona Campbell's blog [] indicates some younger learners who are socio-economically disadvantaged may experience difficulties in interacting or integrating technology for learning. Barriers for younger learners may include literacy levels, internet accessibility and technological skills of Web 2.0 applications and cost. Equally this is discusssed in Callan, Fergusson & Worrall (2010) [] that not all young learners are 'digital natives'.
 * A Vision of Students Today **

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Bowman & Kearns (2007) identify in a recent study that e-learning may be used to maintain skills and motivation of an ageing workforce. As a middle aged learner, I now wonder if younger learners are more inclined to require a greater amount of stimulus to keep them engaged with learning, as they may experience difficulties to apply themselves due to the increased number of technological distractions available to them. Woolfolk & Margetts (2007, p. 265-266) discuss how information from long term memory may be lost through interference. Worth consideration is that perhaps teaching a younger generation of adult learners means that the information being presented has to be in smaller chunks to enable it to be more efficiently processed and coded by the brain so that later the information can be recalled more easily for use from the working memory where it is stored.

Here is a pedagogical response to the above video as to how teaching staff from one university practically engage today's learners, In particular, these educators highlight the need to recognise and incorporate the strategies presented in the video as a means to engage younger learners. Perhaps some of these strategies will go towards ensuring information presented to students will enter either the working or long term memory.
 * A Faculty Response to A Vision of Students Today **

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This video ties into the <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> I presented for Assignment 3 by Brown, Anderson & Murray (2007), <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">which discussed the policy and infrastructure issues around e-learning which highlighted the need to distinguish between globalisation v's internationalisation. The implementation of organisational e-learning should also include considerations for fairness, equity, social justice and accessibility.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Did you know? Human Capital Edition 2009 **

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