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eLearning Programs in Tasmania. The flipped classroom and ubiquitous learning
As I have just started working with groups of teachers accross the state of Tasmania, Australia it has become apparent that ubiquitous learning is starting to become very popular on this small island. The Department of Education Tasmania offers a whole series of eLearning opportunities through their 'Gifted Online' programs and 'Extension Curriculum Online' programs. There are 18 teachers across the state that work with hundreds of students in classrooms all over Tasmania purely as an 'Online Delivery Teacher'. The programs are offered from Grade 2-Grade 10 and students will access these programs during class time at school and at home, or anywhere with internet access. This is different to our eSchool. eSchool is a school like anyother but purely providing distance educaiton to students accross Tasmania that can not physcially attend a bricks and mortar school. The flexible nature of eSchool also allows that flow of learning at anytime and anywhere.
Hi Stephanie. It looks like you submitted this update as your Wiki task for the Coursera course. However, these comments are not really formatted anything like a wiki entry and they don't included links to sources or further reading. What you say is interesting and it's good for us in other parts of the world to know about what's happening in Tasmania. So thanks for providing this information. (If you want to fulfill the wiki assignment, you will need to proceed in a different manner.) Might I suggest that you write a wiki article on the eSchool concept, which is a kind of implementation of ubiquitous learning. Include a few sources, along with a description of what an eSchool is and, voila!, you will have created an original wiki article, which will be perfect for the week 1 task. Hurry, though, time is running out. Cordially, Robert
@Stephanie - I'm looking forward to talking to you to find out more more about the nature of the construction and implementation of the courses you mentioned as well as the Year 11&12 courses that I've been involved in. I'm starting to think that (in general) without concerted effort it's very easy to replace didactic classroom practice (or worse - existing reflexive classroom practice!) with didactic online/digital practice - and in doing so we can miss an enormous opportunity to bring reflexive pedagogy into the digital space. (Not that this is happening necessarily - but it's a big risk..)
Looking forward to discussing all this with you and seeing what you think as we go through the MOOC!