Design theories for online ESP courses

1. Teaching ESP Online
It’s about design

2. SLA
Theories, Methods, Approaches?
• Neurolinguistics • Commonalities
• Non-linear
• Sociolinguistics • Social?
• Complex
• Sociocultural theory
• Chaos/complexity
theory

3. Face-to-Face Pedagogy
Dewey's
active
learning
Vygotsky's
Piaget's
zone of
engaged
proximal
learning
development
Constructivism

4. Designing Language Courses
Formulating
Assessing needs goals and
objectives
Graves, 2000
Conceptualizing
the course
COURSE DESIGN Developing
materials
Reteaching the Course
Designing an
Organizing the
assessment
Defining the context course Articulating beliefs
plan

5. Moving Online
Constructivism
Adult Learning Theories
Distance Education Theories • Transactional Distance
• Community of Inquiry
• Connectivism
• Technological, Pedagogical, Content
Knowledge

6. Moore’s Transactional Distance
Learner-
Teacher
Moore, 1997
Learner- Learner-
Learner Content

7. Community of Inquiry Framework
Garrison, Anderson, & Archer
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(2000)

8. Connectivism
http://elearnspace.org/media/Wh
atIsConnectivism/player.html;
Siemens, 2005

9. TPCK
Koehler, Mishra, & Yahya, 2007

10. Content
Learner-Learner Learner-Content
Pedagogical Technological
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Learner-Teacher
Garrison, Anderson, & Archer (2000) + Moore’s Transactional Distance

11. Core Elements of Adult Education
Theories and the CoI Framework*
Andragogy Self-Directed Transformative Community of
Learning Learning Inquiry
Experienced Control of own Critical reflection Discourse within the
*From Lee (2010)
learning community
Ready to learn Isolation impedes Dialogue Trust
learning
Process design Teachers are Context awareness Personal
focused on necessary relationships
psychological climate
for learning
Authentic relationships Critical reflection

12. Affordances—Is BOLD best?
• BOLD = Blended Online Learning Design
• http://www.bold-research.org/
• Synchronous
• immediacy, high levels of interaction, presence
• Asynchronous
• reflection, equal participation, depth of analysis
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13. So what does all this mean?
• Many online courses use F2F models
• F2F models don’t work for everyone (Udacity)
• Are large first year lecture-based classes
inappropriate online?
• Knowledgeable v. Knowledge – able
• Michael Wesch
• Gaming = motivation?
• Harvard Business Review, The Gamer Disposition
• http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2008/02/the_gamer_disposition.html
• Thorne, 2012 (IATEFL)

14. So what does all this mean?
• Problems when moving online
• Time
• Technology Expertise
• Lack of engagement
• Lack of community
• Students fill in grading boxes (post 2 times; respond once)
• Technology/Culture Issues
• Bandwidth
• Power (or lack thereof)
• Time zones
• Intercultural Communication

15. Solving Problems

16. PLN—Personal Learning Networks
• Google Reader
• Blogs
• What do you follow?
• Wikis
• Which do you read?
• Twitter
• Who do you follow?
• My ID: dleetn
• Mendeley
• What groups do you belong to?
• My ID: Debra Lee, dleetn@gmail.com

17. • Twitter: dleetn
• Facebook: dlee41@utk.edu
• Skype: dsleeprague
• Mendeley: Debra Lee, dleetn@gmail.com
• Blogs I follow:
• http://scholarlyoa.com/ (review of Open Access journals)
• http://www.readwriteweb.com/
• http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/
• http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/
• http://www.elearninglearning.com/ (a blog mashup)
• http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs
• http://mashable.com/ (online tech news)
• For iPad
• Flipboard app
• For Android
• Google Currents