CIDER Sessions
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CIDER has many speakers on tap from across Canada.
Our next session is featured below, or list all Upcoming CIDER Sessions.
Check back often, as this list of upcoming events will be expanded.
Slides and the audiographic recording of all Past CIDER Sessions are available for downloading in the archive.
Our next CIDER session
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Motivation in Online Learning Contexts
Facilitator:
Dr. Maggie Hartnett
Institution:
Massey University, New Zealand
Date and time:
Mar 07, 2012 11:00 AM Mountain Time (Canada)
Evidence suggests that motivation is an important consideration for online learners. Based on this, existing research has frequently focused on exploring ways to design online environments that are motivating to learners. Alternatively, motivation has been thought of as a collection of relatively stable personal characteristics of learners with a view to identifying those traits that predict learner success. However, more contemporary views acknowledge that it is the complex and dynamic interplay of both personal and environmental factors that influence motivation to learn. This presentation reports on research that investigated the nature of motivation in online learning environments from a contemporary 'person in context' perspective. It highlights that motivation is more multidimensional and situation-dependent than first thought and identifies a range of social and contextual factors that can combine in complex ways to foster or undermine motivation.
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Our most recent CIDER session
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The Case for the Self-Paced Online Course
Facilitator:
Steve Weiland
Institution:
Michigan State University
Date and time:
Feb 01, 2012 11:00 AM
At a time when the conventions of online teaching and learning favor student interaction in a variety of synchronous and asynchronous design features, what could sound more out-of-step than the self-paced course organized around autonomy and the isolated student? But claims for the value of online "learning communities" can be overstated, and the preferences of adult students overlooked. The self-paced course in which students work on their own to complete a sequence of activities (like reading texts, viewing and listening to digital media, exploring websites, and completing writing assignments) may actually satisfy the needs of adult learners as much (or more) than online courses reflecting one version or another of social constructivism in design. This presentation explores historical, theoretical, and practical dimensions of the self-paced course and concludes with evidence for success in using the format in a fully online MA program.
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Presentation slides (PowerPoint)
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Bibliography: The Case for the Self-Paced Online Course
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Nearly 90 researchers and educators from across Canada attended the inaugural CIDER Session.
Each session is 60 minutes long and runs from 11:00 AM Mountain time (1:00PM Eastern).
Registration is free.
For more information on attending upcoming sessions, email Dan Wilton at dpwilton@shaw.ca
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