AFLIA Webinar 2018

Blended Learning - Fusing

Library and Educational

Technology

Ayodele John Alonge, Ph.D., CLN

Lecturer, Department of Library Archival and Information Studies,

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

ayoalonge@gmail.com ||+2348023594427

Contents…

Technology-mediated learning

Blended Learning

Models of Blended Leaning

Features of Blended Learning

Blended Learning in Library and

Information Science

Blended Learning enhancing LIS Education

Students’ Perspective

Purpose…

To relate my experience in exploring the

application of Technology-mediated

learning in teaching LIS courses;

– looking at the educational and

pedagogical aspect relating Blended

Learning…

Exploring LARIS students’ perspective

and desire concerning the use of Blended

Learning (BL) in LIS education

Preamble

Outstanding

development of

new technologies,

particularly

information and

communication

technologies (ICT)

rise of information or knowledge society that phenomenally changing the way

we live and work together, including the teaching and learning process

Information or knowledge society is changing

Technology and Distraction

Technology could

also bring about

detractions to the

flow of teaching and

learning process

Lack of Techno-maturity

Technology-mediated learning

TML is a

generic term

which

encompasses

different

teaching and

learning

approaches that

is supported by

the use of

Information and

Communication

Technologies

(ICTs).

Forms of Blended Learning

USING A COMBINATION OR MIX MODES

COMBINE VARIOUS PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES

Any form of instructional technology (videotape, CD-ROM, Web-based training, film) combined with face-to-face instructor-led training

What is Blended Learning?

Blended Learning features

10

The traditional “factory” model

50 million in monolithic, one-size-fits-

all batches

The “tech-rich” traditional model

Over $60 billion spent on computers in classrooms

Blended Learning is NOT …

…Models of Blended Learning

…Models of Blended Learning

…Models of Blended Learning

Blended Learning in Library and

Information Science

Over the years, LIS departments, teachers, and students have adapted new technology in order to bring the best teaching and learning methods and application in their classes and LIS education as a whole.

Today the LIS SECTOR IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, resulting in the use of digital technologies into pedagogy too.

As such these changes lead to CHANGES IN CURRICULUM CONTENT as well as in METHODS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING.

Recently, Blended learning has mushroommed and has attracted considerable attention.

It calls for blending of traditional face to face method and online learning method.

Blended Learning enhancing LIS Education

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EDMODO

Pros and Cons

Pros ◦ User Friendly! ◦ Looks like Facebook (social media)

Students enjoy using

◦ App for google play store / iPhone can use to grade assignments on your phone

◦ Students upload work directly to site ◦ Onsite grading

Cons ◦ Need to create each semester ◦ Have to scroll through for earlier dates/assignments

Using Blended Learning for LIS 712 , I03, 101

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INSTRUCTOR BEHAVIORS

Student Behaviors

Educational Benefits

INSTRUCTOR BEHAVIORS

PARTICIPATION/

ENGAGEMENT

Participation/engagement

describes the instructor’s

frequency of involvement and

level of interest in online content

sharing.

PERSONALIZATION

Personalization refers to the instructor’s

enabling students to reveal aspects of

their personal lives online to increase

student social presence and community

building (Zach & Agosto, 2009).

FACILITATION

OF LEARNING

Facilitation of learning involves the

instructor’s efforts to encourage

students to learn by “actively search[ing]

for new information, learn[ing] from

each other, and advanc[ing] knowledge”

(Li & Akins, 2005, p. 58).

Student Behaviors

PEER INTERACTION

Increased student interaction

generally leads to increased

student engagement and critical

thinking, thus increasing student

learning (Zach & Agosto, 2009).

EQUAL PARTICIPATION

Equal participation is a key

component to true collaboration. In

addition to variance in level of peer

interaction, there was significant

variance in total participation in the

blogging community, with the number

of total posts per student varying

from four to 34.

Educational Benefits

CONNECTION TO PRACTICE

Library Science is a professional degree, and a strong focus of most

LIS graduate programs is on preparing students to work as

librarians and information managers. Social technologies are

especially effective in providing a connection to practice (Zach &

Agosto, 2009). The blogging format afforded strong support for

connection to practice; the student blogs collectively provided a

wealth of resources connected to the reallife practice of reader’s

advisory. Through their blogs, the students shared their analyses of

genre fiction, literary fiction, poetry, and popular non-fiction,

resources likely to be useful in professional practice. Additionally,

students posted their reading lists and reader’s advisory role-

playing results, further blending their in-class interactions with

their online activities.

PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING

In peer-to-peer learning, students’ learning moves beyond interaction with

the course instructor and with course content via assignments and readings,

to learning from knowledge building and sharing with their fellow students

(Zach & Agosto, 2009). Blended learning afforded strong peer-to-peer learning

STUDENT CONTROL

The use of technologies in online learning enables increased student control over

course content and over the design of assignments (Zach & Agosto, 2009). Blended

learning in particular can afford increased student control (“personal agency”)

(Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003).

See what the students say… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPSijst

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Speaker

Dr. Ayodele John Alonge is a Lecturer at Department of Library Archival

and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He holds PhD in

Communication and Information Studies from the School of Journalism and

Mass Communication, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Master of Publishing

and Copyright Studies (MPCS) and Bachelor of Library and Information

Studies (B.LIS) from the Department of Library, Archival and Information

Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a CARTA Graduate He is a

Certified Librarian of Nigeria (CLN). He also serves as Regional Adviser -

Sub-Saharan Africa Region for Emerald Group Publishing, United Kingdom

since 2014. Prior joining the University as academic in 2013, he worked as

Librarian and Social Media Coordinator for KPMG Nigeria for 4 years. He

is the Coordinator of the Nigeria Library Association (NLA) Digital

communication Crew with responsibility of managing all social media

platforms of the association. He has deep interest in emerging

technologies in Libraries, Digital Library, Health Information System, and

Health Communication, new media, e- Library, e-Publishing, and Social

media for communication. He is happily married.

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