1. Designing
Technology-Enhanced Learning
(TEL1)
6 ects, 418021P
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

2. Today’s schedule:
Thursday 2013-01-31
08:15-09:45 Course info Venla Vallivaara
KTK215 Process of designing TEL
10:00-11:30 Lecture and collaborative studying Essi Vuopala
KTK215 Collaborative learning and CSCL
12:30-14:00 Collaborative studying
KTK112
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

3. Objective
• Students become familiar with the key concepts,
competing theories and approaches of designing
Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)
• In collaboration with international students they will
develop practical skills of setting up, implementing and
evaluating the use of distributed set of integrated TEL
systems and tools, and they will design a prototype of an
advanced TEL course
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

4. Contents
• Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) concept
• Designing TEL: design process, selection of
technology, constructing TEL environment
• Implementing TEL
• Evaluating TEL
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

5. Learning objectives
After this course
• Students will be capable to describe characteristics of TEL
• Students will be capable to define main stages of designing
TEL
• Students will be proficient to design and implement
pedagogically well-grounded web-course
• Students will be competent to assess pedagogical use of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

6. Course structure
2013-01-31 2013-02-14 2013-02-28 2013-03-01 2013-03-14 2013-03-15 2013-04-04 2013-04-18
Thursday Thursday Thursday Friday Thursday Friday Thursday Thursday
08:15-14:00 08:15-14:00 08:15-11:30 08:15-15:45 08:15-14:00 08:15-15:45 08:15-11:30 08:15-11:30
KTK205 + KTK303 + KTK303 + KTK215 KTK112 KTK303 KTK215 HU108
KTK112 KTK140 KTK140
Course info, Lectures and Lectures and Problem-Based Lectures and Problem-Based Lectures and Collaborative
lectures and collaborative collaborative Learning (PBL) collaborative Learning (PBL) collaborative studying and
collaborative studying studying studying studying ending the course
studying
OUTCOME:
GATHERING PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTING THE A TEL COURSE
IDEAS SCRIPTING SCRIPTING COURSE DESIGNED BY
ENVIRONMENT YOU
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

7. Course assignments and
assessment
• Grading 0-5
– Based on
• Pedagogical decisions and script for your course
• Technological decisions and script for your course, course
environment
• Overall activity and participation in face-to-face sessions and team’s
collaboration
– The more detailed evaluation criteria for scripts and course
environment will be presented when starting with these
assignments
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

8. Google Drive / Google Docs
as a writing tool
• All the teams create Google documents for their
teamwork
– Gathering ideas
– Writing the pedagogical and technological scripts
• The documents will be shared with the team, the teacher
(Venla) and later with peer and/or teacher evaluators
• For collaboration you can use also other tools and meet
face-to-face as much as you want to
• You can find lots of tutorials for
Google Drive from YouTube
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

9. Reading materials
• Dillenbourg, P. (1999). What do you mean by
‘collaborative learning’?
• Resta & laferriere (2007). Technology in support
of collaborative learning
• Kollar, fischer & hesse (2006). Collaboration
scripts: a conceptual analysis
• Kreijns, Kirshner & Jochems, (2003) Identifying
the pitfalls for social interaction in computer-
supported collaborative learning environments: a
review of the research.
• Siemens & Tittenberg (2009). Handbook of
Emerging Technologies for Learning.
• And/or other current readings in the field of
Technology-Enhanced Learning
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

10. The process of
Designing TEL
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

11. Design process
1. Defining the general framework of
the course
2. Writing a pedagogical script for
the course
3. Writing a technological script for
the course
4. Technical implementation of the
course (and testing)
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

12. Defining the general
framework of the course
• Defining the target group (who is this course designed
for?)
• What are the main aims and contents of this course?
• Why do we use technology in this course? Why should
this be for example a webcourse? (from student’s
perspective and from teacher’s perspective)
• Scheduling and work division
• Scope and workload of the course
• How will it be practically implemented? Are all the
activities on-line? Collaborative and/or independent
studying? International/national setting?
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

13. Pedagogical script
• Defining the pedagogical decisions of the course
– Learning theory
– Description of the pedagogical model
– Description of teacher’s role
– Learning materials
– Evaluation/assessment
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

14. Technological script
• A concrete plan and guideline how to construct the course
environment (and or use other technical tools in the
course)
– Description of the basic idea of the technological implementation
– Visual design and structure of the web environment
– Possibilities and tools for communication and other actions
– Web materials / digital learning materials
– Testing the environment and tools
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

15. Technical implementation
and testing
• Texts and instructions
• Pictures and videos
• User accounts
• Plan for technical support if needed
• Structuring the web environment
• Checking and finalizing
• Testing: pedagogical testing, content testing and technical
testing
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

16. Forming the teams
Choose your team of 3-5 students!
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

17. The first decisions you should
make…
• What is the topic of your course? What is the course
about?
• What is the target group of your course?
• What do you want the participants to learn? What are the
main learning goals of your course?
• What are the first ideas about the technical
implementation of your course?
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31

18. For the next time:
1. Create a Google document (using Google Drive/Docs) and share it with all of your
team members (create google/gmail accounts if you don’t have them already) and with Venla
(venla.vallivaara@gmail.com)
2. If you haven’t used Google Drive/Docs before, you can watch tutorials from
YouTube
3. Start gathering ideas, plans and questions to that document:
– What decisions you have made already? What still needs to be decided?
– Any new ideas about the topic, target group, implementation, technologies?
– Any interesting links, videos, articles you have found?
– Any questions or problems?
4. Read at least two of the following articles:
– Dillenbourg, P. (1999). What do you mean by ‘collaborative learning’?
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/02/40/PDF/Dillenbourg-Pierre-1999.pdf
– Resta & laferriere (2007). Technology in support of collaborative learning
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/cscl/2010/readings/resta_2007.pdf
– Kreijns, Kirshner & Jochems, (2003) Identifying the pitfalls for social interaction in
computer-supported collaborative learning environments: a review of the research.
http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/fss/2006-1214-
211040/kirschner_03_identifying_pitfalls_social_interaction_computer_supported.pdf
Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2013-01-31