Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies MOOC’s Updates

Essential Peer Reviewed Update #5

Comment: In what ways can computer-mediated learning environments support more active learning?

When students are working with each other for a task, they can observe their own process and revive their peers.
Students can give feedbacks straight forward and learn from others.
It can encourage learners as active learners.
It can create an efficient collaborative environments promote active engagement, critical thought, and higher level thinking skills such as analysis and evaluation.
It is believed that students learn best when they are actively involved in group work or peer work, technology provides such an environment.
It enables a more personalized and student lead learning in many ways – subject, pace, assessment, expression etc.

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Make an Update: Describe and analyze an example of social learning supported by ubiquitous learning devices.

I would like to mention about the use of ZOOM in group collaboration. Nowadays in Turkey, almost all teachers and universities and even friends use this tool to engage because of Covid-19 outbreak.ZOOM is a video conferencing tool which allows its users to video chat and share screen with each other. Zoom is a platform where you can do live lectures, meetings, meetings, trainings online. You can work on both mobile and tablet devices and computers either by downloading the application or by browsing. Zoom is an audio or video call, live lecture, live lesson tool from both your mobile devices and computers. By using ZOOM, students can share learning outcomes with each other, and they can also share resources related to coursework such as a PPT, a research paper, a video, by showing their screens to others in the web conference synchronously. As a result of the researches carried out for the teachers who give lessons to continue their lessons online and the students who take lessons can continue their lessons with online education, it has been determined that the most efficient application is zoom. You can do one-to-one or group lessons.

https://zoom.us/

https://zoom.us/education

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