MITE6024 group 3

1. What kind of educational activities can teachers and instructional designers encourage student to do online? Reading online materials e.g. news, information blogs, encyclopedia  Conduct research e.g. research database Collect data e.g. creating your own questionnaire on Google Form  Finding and watching educational videos e.g. Tedtalk, youtube  Creating their own learning materials e.g. Make their own Kahoot, own video to show what they have learned  Participate in online discussions e.g. Wiki, forums, blogs Create online notebooks to encourage self-directed learning, becoming an autonomous learner e.g. Onenote, Evernote Online assessment to get instant feedback e.g. Kahoot  Collaborating with others online e.g. Google docs, google slides Organize thinking e.g. Mindmeister  Post their own work for others to view and comment e.g. Seesaw  Keeping an online calendar e.g. Google Calendar 

Discussion Questions  1. How can these learning theories be used to guide the design or usage of technological tools? The learning theories can be used to determine how we expect our students to learn and use the eLearning tool. It will help us understand what role our students have when using the eLearning tool. For instance, if we consider the behaviorist learning theory, students are expected to exhibit the desired behavior of answering the questions correctly. When students use the app based on the behaviorist theory, there would need to be some sort of reward and/or consequence to reinforce the behavior.  Why it’s necessary for an instructional designer/eLearning designer to learn learning theories? As an instructional designer/ eLearning designer, you need to ensure that what you create does not solely rely on technological knowledge. To integrate technology successfully in the classroom it is important that there is a healthy interaction between c...