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Part
C - Providing online support for learners in practice
Consider
the impact of CMC on your learners' progress, and Activity
2.20
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Consider
the impact of CMC on your learners' progress
In
the previous activity, you have evaluated your use of the various
CMC techniques you have employed. However, you used these techniques
within a wider learning context. The final activity invites you
to reflect on the contribution of online support to your learners'
overall achievement.
Activity
2.20
AIMS
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To consider the contribution of CMC to your learners' achievement.
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To create potential evidence for your portfolio.
INSTRUCTIONS
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Describe the learning aims you have set for your learners.
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Explain the contribution you had expected your use of CMC to make
to the achievement of these aims.
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Where possible provide examples where participation in CMC appears
to have made this contribution.
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Where possible provide examples where the learning aims were not
met despite the use of CMC.
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Provide an overall assessment of the contribution made by using
CMC to your learners' achievement.
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Identify the main factors that explain the effect the use of CMC
had on your learners.
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Outline what changes could be made in your use of online support
that would further
enhance the contribution of CMC to your learners' achievement.
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Include the above in your portfolio.
Your
response to this activity will depend on the learning goals you
hoped to achieve by using CMC.
For
example, you might have set the learning aim of helping learners
achieve a more practical understanding and application of the
material they have learned. You planned to use CMC to achieve
this learning aim by using online threaded discussion to encourage
your learners to share their own experiences and thus root their
learning more firmly in the real world. If learners contributed
to the discussion and then used the discussion to give their reports
a more practical slant you could argue that this use of CMC had
helped your learners achieve their learning goals.
The
evidence that is appropriate to this activity will vary greatly
among candidates for this Unit. Discuss with your facilitator
the evidence that might be applicable in your circumstances.
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