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Lecture 1a:
The nature of learning in Higher Education (HE).
Learning as a problem-solving activity.
Learning as a social activity.
Learning and teaching as a social transaction.
1b: Students will be able to discuss the extent to which learning in HE is:
Lecture 2a:
Student and teacher attitudes to educational learning. Perry, W.G. (1970)
"Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years"
Perry's developmental stage model of views of the nature of knowledge, learning
and teaching: from passive reception of absolute truth to active choice between
justifiable alternative views.
2b: Students will be able to:
* Describe Perry's stage model
* Discuss its problems and limitations
Lectures 3a & 4a:
The Laurillard model of the learning and teaching process. Laurillard (1993)
"Rethinking University Teaching"
Mathemagenic (learning-promoting) activities.
Laurillard's 12 activity model. Its 3 underlying principles: equal focus on
teachers and learners, repetition and convergence (the conversation model), the
two levels of knowledge: public description and personal experience.
3b & 4b: Students will be able to:
* Describe and illustrate with examples the 12 activity model
* Describe and illustrate with examples its three generating principles
* Critique the notion of mathemagenic activity
* Critique Laurillard's 12 activity model
Lecture 5-6a:
The negotiated management of learning.
Draper (1997) "Adding (negotiated) learning management to models of teaching
and learning" [WWW paper: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/TLP.management.html
]
Extending the Laurillard model to describe how activities are agreed and
organised by learners and teachers.
5-6b: Students will be able to:
* Describe and illustrate with examples how learning is managed by interaction
between learner and teacher.
7-10a Beyond Laurillard and towards a complete model. The relationship of
Laurillard to the other models of teaching and learning, and issues that may
not be covered by any of them but require further theory development. These
include: the management layer, peer interaction, social theories such as Tinto
and Lave, Snyder and how learners self-regulate their effort, internalisation,
constructivism, metacognition, the "Dr. Fox" experiments, and
technoscepticism.
7-10b Students will be able to discuss the extent to which any of the
theories is complete, the challenges offered by the various other issues
covered, and the prospects for an eventual complete, unified theory of learning
and teaching in HE.
11-12a Introduction to HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) and applying
psychology to design. An introduction to the concepts of user centered design
and the prototyping approach, and the contribution psychology can make.
11-12b Students will be able to discuss critically issues of how psychology
may be applied to design, and to problems requiring redesign as a solution.
Students should be able to discuss what user centered design may mean, and to
describe the prototyping cycle.
13a Thinkaloud protocols
13b Students should be able to administer a thinkaloud protocol, and to
discuss its strengths and weaknesses as in instrument.
14a Incident diaries
14b Students should be able to design and administer an incident diary, and
to discuss its strengths and weaknesses as in instrument.
15a Feature checklists. How to compare different instruments related to
questionnaires; and the full set of instruments.
15b Students should be able to design and administer the ramge of seven
instruments, and to discuss their strengths and weaknesses.
16-18a Minimal manuals: a user-centered approach to designing computer
documentation. One of the few outcomes of direct commercial value from HCI
research is the minimalist technique, derived by a psychologist in the course
of a long series of studies.
16-18b Students should be able both to describe the technique, and to apply
it.
19a Evaluating electronic voting systems: an example of applied methods in
educational technology. The main kinds of data being participant attitudes,
attendance, and exam results. The relationship of technosceptical arguments to
this.
19b Students should be able to describe the alternative approaches than have
been used to evaluate EVS, and their comparative strengths and weaknesses.
20a Applying psychology, and the relationship of educational and HCI
applications.
20b Students should be able to discuss the similarity and differences of these
two areas.
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