An Educational Experience with Online Teaching – Not a Best Practice

Ditte Kolbæk; Anne-Mette Nortvig

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_32

An Educational Experience with Online Teaching – Not a Best Practice

Ditte Kolbæk, Anne-Mette Nortvig

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Abstract

Problem- and Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a widely used pedagogical method in higher education. Although PBL encourages self-directed learning and works with the students’ own projects and problems, it also includes teacher presentations, discussions and group reflections, both on-campus and online. Therefore, the teacher’s plans might be relevant to the students’ projects, but that is not always the case. This study investigates how master’s students interact with an online Problem-Based Learning design and examines how technology influences these interactions. The empirical data stem from lessons at an online master’s course, and they were collected and analyzed using a netnographic approach. The study finds that concepts like self-directed learning and active involvement of everyone can have very different meanings from the teachers’ and the students’ points of view. If the students do not see the relevance immediately, they often leave the online sessions. Hence the title: This study describes an experience and provides a point of departure for further discussion, but it is not an example of best practices for online PBL.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Tomorrow’s Learning : Involving Everyone – Learning with and about technologies and computing
Editors	Arthur Tatnall, Mary Webb
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	25 Jul 2018
Pages	304-313
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-74309-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-74310-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_32
Publication status	Published - 25 Jul 2018
Event	WCCE 2017: IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education - Dublin Castle Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 6 Jul 2017 http://wcce2017.com/

Conference

Conference	WCCE 2017: IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education
Location	Dublin Castle Conference Centre
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	03/07/2017 → 06/07/2017
Internet address	http://wcce2017.com/

Series	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	515
ISSN	1571-5736

Bibliographical note

Ditte has been teaching for decades, and she has been passionate about learning and teaching since she was very young. This passion has let her through an unusual carrier in which teaching always was the core, no matter if she was IT system developer, marketing manager or manager of organizational learning in Oracle. Since 2013 she has focused on her passion in her research on organizational learning, learning in higher education and becoming an online leader. She truly believes that challenges enforce learning, and that we learn as a continuation of our experiences. Problem Based Learning (PBL) in higher education fits very well into these believes.

Keywords

Problem Based Learning (PBL)
Online Laerning
Moodle
Video
Computer Science Education

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Tomorrow’s Learning: Involving Everyone – Learning with and about technologies and computing. ed. / Arthur Tatnall; Mary Webb. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018. p. 304-313 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 515).

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