LEARNING TO INTEGRATE
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES INTO
TEACHING in HIGHER EDUCATION:
WHERE TO START
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Background
• Technology- a valued asset to
higher education learners
• Educators should make
learning enjoyable
• Technologies are so recent
need you to put a value on
them.
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Social learning theory
• Wenger’s social learning
theory:
– Valued shared concern
– Knowledge- competence
– Knowing -participation in
pursuit valued concerns
– Meaning- ability to
experience.
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Community of practice
A group of people who share a concern or a passion for
something they do and learn how to do it better as they
interact regularly.
Copied from: Wenger (1998) page 211
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What does a community of practice seek to do?
Problem solving
“Can we work on this design and brainstorm some
ideas; I’m stuck.”
Request for information
“Where can I find the code to connect to the
projector?”
Seek experiences
“Has anyone dealt with a student in this situation?”
Reuse assets
“I have a proposal I wrote last year. I can send it to
you and you can easily tweak it for this you are
working on.”
Co-ordinate and forge
synergies
“Can we combine our purchases of cartridges to
achieve bulk discounts?”
Discuss developments
“What do you think of the new system? Does it
really help?”
Document projects
“We have faced this problem five times now. Let us
write it down once and for all.”
Visits
Can we come and see your teaching?
Map knowledge and
identify gaps
“Who knows what, and what are we missing?
What other groups should we connect with?”
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from:
Wenger
(1998)
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Where do we begin and who takes the
lead?
Reference
Wenger, E., 1998. Communities of
Practice, Learning, Meaning and Identity.
Cambridge MA: Havard University Press
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