Educational strategies tend to move away from the pure accumulation of factual and intellectual knowledge and increasingly acknowledge the importance of the acquisition of competences. This general tendency applies, in particular, to the cross-cutting concern of communication. In this paper I illustrate the case of an academic course on communication for teacher candidates and computer- or service science master students. The course aims at providing experiential learning and besides the facilitator’s competences heavily relies on the inclusion of online media to enrich the active learning process. Students’ feedback will be provided to let readers grasp the kind of learning happening in the course. The paper is intended to inspire educators by good practice examples and to motivate the inclusion of a course on communication in curricula such as those for teacher education or computer science
DisCo 2013: Renate Motschnig - Person Centered Communication
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renate.motschnig@univie.ac.at
Universität Wien, CSLEARN - Educational Technologies
PERSON-CENTERED COMMUNICATION
– Including new media to foster the
acquisition of competences
Renate Motschnig
Universität Wien, CSLEARN - Educational
Technologies,
renate.motschnig@univie.ac.at
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Context
Master-level education in “communication“
* Computer Science
* Teacher Education
Motivation
Illustrate and promote PCeL (Person-Centered
technology-enhanced Learning)
Goals for today
renate.motschnig@univie.ac.at
Research Lab for Educational Technologies of University of Vienna
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Significant Learning
“Significant learning combines
the logical and the intuitive,
the intellect and the feelings,
the concept and the experience,
the idea and the meaning.
When we learn in that way, we are whole.”
(Rogers, 1983) S. 20.
Our goal: Significant, technology enhanced learning
(PCeL)
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PCeL goal:
Improving learning/growth by sensitively
employing techology
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PCeL: The Vision
Students and educators will find learning/facilitation
an inspiring, meaningful, growthful experience;
Basis: Person Centered Learning, Co-actualization
Allow for active participation, self-organization, critical
thinking, team work, promotive activities, based on
realness, acceptance/respect and understanding
(Rogers, 1983; Barrett-Lennard, 1998; Cornelius-
White & Harbaugh, 2010; Motschnig & Nykl, 2011)
and a thoughtful integration of web 2.0 technology
Combine facilitation of courses with research on
progress, quality, added value
Improve employability, reduce drop-out
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Significant Learning
“We know ... that the initiation of such learning
rests not upon the teaching skills of the leader,
not upon scholarly knowledge of the field, not
upon curricular planning, not upon use of
audiovisual aids, not upon the programmed
learning used, not upon lectures and
presentations, not upon an abundance of books,
though each of these might at one time or
another be utilized as an important resource. No,
the facilitation of significant learning rests upon
certain attitudinal qualities that exist in the
personal relationship between the facilitator and
the learner." (Rogers, 1983, S. 121);