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We’re pleased to welcome Allan Carrington as a guest contributor to our community. Allan is a learning designer from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He is one of the foremost authorities on the integration of technology in teaching. Please welcome Allan Carrington.
Introduction
I have two masters degrees, one in interactive multimedia and the other in education, majoring in online delivery. This has involved many, many hours of study, yet to this day, until I stumbled onto the Just in Time Teaching (JiTT) methodology, I never really had an apologetic for using educational technology to empower both the teacher and the learner as well as improve learning outcomes face-to-face. The potential of JiTT was personally liberating, as I work in a research-intensive university, which delivers primarily face-to-face. I finally felt there was a better way and with the emergence of powerful collaborative tools commonly called Web 2.0, I believe JiTT has exciting possibilities.
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A New Movement
Today’s educational technologies allow an educator to more readily develop quality digital teaching and learning materials. By also integrating regular formative e-assessment into these learning objects, using a new generation of assessment technologies, lecturers can obtain a better understanding of the needs and knowledge students bring to the classroom, and can ‘just in time’ adjust their lecture plans accordingly.As a result of this methodology:
- Academic staff will be able to:
- maximise the effectiveness of classroom sessions by targeting specific student needs
- organise student learning outside the classroom by providing specific feedback and asynchronous learning activities in response to students’ answers to the diagnostic assessments
- improve student retention and progression through more effective engagement with the course concepts and content
- Students will be able to:
- start thinking about the content before class begins and be able to interact effectively in class
- develop and practice their skills and learning through regular interaction with diagnostic tests
- have some control over their learning and feel a sense of ownership since academics will respond to common problems that affect their learning
Technological Issues & Developments
There are two crucial technological issues for the facilitator adopting what I’ve called a JiTT 2.0 approach: a capacity to readily and flexibly generate teaching and learning material, and an ability to conduct reliable and readily interpretable online assessments. We discuss both these issues in this podcast episode and offer some suggested software programs and ideas for implementation.
Conclusion
I believe the Just in Time Teaching framework appears to have transformative potential in respect of face-to-face delivery in higher education, providing for a more effective use of the web for distribution of broadcast content, and a more collaborative and interactive approach to face-to-face activity, better informed by an understanding of students’ readiness to tackle the topic under discussion. Technological advances make implementation of JiTT more viable than when the approach was first developed almost a decade ago, and should provide a clearer platform for the much needed scholarly evaluation of the effectiveness of the framework in respect of improving learning outcomes.
References
Carrington, A. & Green, I. (2007). Just in time teaching revisited: Using e-assessment and rapid e-learning to empower face to face teaching. In ICT: Providing choices for learners and learning. Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/carrington-poster.pdf A full colour PDF of the ASCILITE 2007 conference poster can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/posterJiTT_ascilite07.pdf
Carrington A., Faculty of Law Professional Development Seminar on JiTT http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/lawjitt/
Carrington A. Using JiTT Powered by Articulate to enable Targeted Interactive Lecturing. A learning module with no sound used for face-to-face presentations http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/online/learningmodules/jitt/player.html
Novak, G. M., Patterson, E. T., Gavrin, A. & Enger, R. C. (1998). Just-in-Time Teaching: Active Learner Pedagogy with WWW. In J. Gil-Mendieta & M. H. Hanza (Eds), Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE ‘98). Cancun, Mexico. IASTED/ACTA Press: Anaheim, Calgary, Zurich.
Novak, Gregor M., Patterson, Evelyn T, Gavrin, Andrew D. & Christian, Wolfgang (1999). Just-In-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.Waye V., Introduction to Australian Law. An interactive learning module created using Articulate software and showcasing the JiTT methodology http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/online/learningmodules/lawilm/player.html
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