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Transcript for Youtube Video: Learning Online from a Student PerspectiveReference:Learning online from a student perspective. (2014, July 20). length: 8 minutes and 57 secondsInstructions shown before viewing the video:In this video you will learn from a student about access, open learning, workload, digital literacy and the need for educators to adopt more carefully considered technologically supported teaching strategies.Instructions: Answer the guiding questions to check your understanding at different points in the video.Watch by hiting the PLAY ICON below.The Video viewing activity contains the following questions that the viewers are being asked to find the answer to based on the information provided by the students in the video:Question 1 is a multiple choice question asking Which of the following statements does the student regard as benefits of learning online? Choose all that apply.1 The ability to build a Community of Professional Practice in which he can negotiate meaning and discuss relevant matters with his peers, independent of particular hours during the day.2 The ability to learn about technology relevant to his field.3 He thinks that it helps him source information (on the move) online, read and digest it to then do something meaningful with it.4 He enjoys the flexibility it affords with regards to self-paced learning.5 Learning online helps build broader networks with people that extend way beyond an online course community.6 He finds online learning beneficial that is social and thus providing the comfort and space for focused learning interactions.Question 2 is a prompt to guide your understanding in the part asking about challenges to online learning asking you toBefore listening to the student, briefly think about some challenges that you anticipate your learners to experience in your online course(s)?Continue watching by hitting the PLAY Button below.Question 3 is a prompt to guide your understanding in the part where the student talks about his online learning strategies asking youReflect briefly which of the learning strategies you would want your students to apply in your courses too? be ready and willing to find solutions to problems without much guidance from others,learn to find relevant information online,make sense of information without being told by othersorganize course content in ways that help work through when necessaryutilize university forums to share resources with the cohortseeki out blogs and other forms of course communication with peers (even outside of LMS)use open-source technologyshare their own creative works under open licenses (e.g. Creative Commons) for other uses in educationQuestion 4 is a prompt to ask you How useful do you find his suggestions for you as an instructor?Read the transcript belowStart: My name is Jensen Hughes I'm currentlystudying a Master of Arts in learningand as part of that subject I have to doquite a lot of online involvement interms of posting to a forum peerfeedback and and certain weeksmoderating those forums so there's awhole lot online content and that isaugmented by a face-to-face teachingonce a week I think online learning isparticularly important and relevantespecially as we go into the 21stcentury and the rich information age welive in I think it's really importantprofessionally because I think whetherwhatever field you might be working indigital is really important I look atonline learning as having variousprofessional outputs whether it beenhancing training and learning helpingme establish communities of practicewithin my work place where I can enhancemy and other colleagues professionalunderstanding and learning a bit moreabout how to use technologies in thatonline online spaces is a benefitin terms of study currently digitaltechnologies have helped me sourceinformation be able to locateinformation on the move and also pickthat up and read it and digest it andthen do something with it any given timeI work full time at the Museum which isanywhere between 40 to 50 hours a weekI'm studying 1 to 2 subjects persemester at any given time having thatflexibility to pace my own learning is amassive benefit also in terms of actualcoursework being able to choose when Icontribute to forums and how Icontribute to them has been a massivetime saver and I'm not limited tocertain hours within a particular day ortime and that's been hugely beneficiallearning is very much a social thing soand particularly the way I learn is verymuch social learning so that meansnegotiating meaning and understandingwith my colleagues there's acomfortability that it provides where Ifeel like be comfortable to ask thosequestions and question some some of theways that they're going about things andvice versa and I think that the onlinelearning means that you've got it in onecontext but the further you go onlinethe wider and wider those networksbecome so that goes from what might beyou and a friend talking about it to youand your classmates to you and your workcontext and broader as that expands andthe insights and understanding of thatprovides is all about that socialinteractionone of the greatest challenges I findwith with online learning especiallyaround group work is the lack of socialor face-to-face contact that you mightotherwise get and the challenge there isthat sometimes simple things likecommunicating an idea it takes that muchlonger and is that much more difficultsometimes with online learning you mightfeel a sense of isolation which doesn'tordinarily happen in a general classroomsetting technology is a great device interms of the affordances it provides forlearning I think what needs to be thereis support in terms of how to use thosetechnologies effectively because thereis just so much there how can I utilizeit to the to the best means for thestudent in terms of digital literaciesand and the teaching of digitalliteracies a lot of what is done withinthe coursework is pointing us to greatmaterial and readings on that sort ofthing and there's a lot of materialabout what it means to be digitallyliterate and engaging with technologiesbut in terms of how you actually goabout it and achieve that literacy it'ssomething that's largely self-directedI'd say and just involves a lot ofcritical analysis and working out whereand which materials is going to be mostrelevant for what I'm needing to dowhat I use at University in terms oftablets smartphones is something whichis very much bring-your-own-device typemodel in terms of how that mightintegrate into coursework is left atyour discretion there is the idea thatstudents will need to often find theirown solutions and sometimes thosesolutions mean going outside of variousportals whether it be learningmanagement systems or other so forexample when we found some of those LMSsystems too prescriptive or limitingwhat we'd often do is is find our ownforums or our own means of communicatingoutside of those everything's prettymuch online it would be very rare thatI'll walk into a library whether atuniversity or elsewhere and pick up abook because I'll invariably often beable to find a chapter from that bookonline if I look long and hard enough interms of researching particular topicsthe journal articles that were givenprovide a really great understanding andoften difficult and complexunderstanding that involves a lot ofreading outside of that what I do findfrom the students perspective is there'sa lot of information so the idea ofknowledge is there it's very tangibleand is able to be gotten and taken howto do that is another thing andcurrently in the coursework it wouldn'tbe something that's necessarily taughtwhat I will often do is go through thereading list and and the majority ofthose are available in the library asPDFs and and the majority of those willbe journal articles some will be linksto particular webpages and what I willoften do is take all that informationdownload it to my tablet and then as I'mreading it I'll use various tools toannotate that and I'll use google useGoogle Docs quite extensively when I'mdoing assignments because it allows meto pick it up wherever I go whether itbe at work or at home or or elsewherewhen I'm given a particular assignmentI'll often use Google Scholar and justtroll the web for related material andI'll I find that particularly usefulbecause you can see how much thatarticle or that authors been cited byothers and I find that piece supportedidea reallycotton in terms of okay this resource isobviously a valuable one and I'llutilize the the universities forums interms of getting information from otherstudents and what they've found andsimilarly sharing those so that that canbe of benefit to the cohort other formsof online resources that I use of blogsquite quite extensively and I'llsubscribe and follow those particularblogs or I'll actively seek those outother ones will be various videos I findthrough a lot of the content they'lloften be a talk or a presentationrelated to that so some of thosechannels include YouTube Vimeo some ofthe iTunes channels as well as say TEDxthe use of open source technologies andand how I use that as a student I'm verymuch in favor of because I think whatyou actually bring to the table peoplecan augment and add to and and furtheralong what you've developed and I'm verymuch interested in promoting that forexample I'll make a lot of my photos andimages open source so that they can berepurposed and reused and will often useCreative Commons licensing that haveacknowledgments that allow people to dothat and I think that that wholemovement of open source is ultimately apositive thing especially for educationwith the access that the access thatstudents have to some of thesetechnologies it needs to be opened upsome advice I'd have for teachers interms of using technology in the waythey deliver their teaching and learningis not to be afraid of it and to bringto the to allow students to enhance thatexperience and bring solutions wherepossible and allow them to steer theconversations and and navigating the useof that technology because in someinstances you'll find that the studentswill be far more able and willing andcapable of doing that then you ask sodon't be afraid to to let them leadthose conversations and that's prettymuch it it's not a massive it's a goodthing. ................
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