BYOD Project - E-Learning

What is E-learning?
E-learning is supporting learning through electronic (online) material. Students are able to access resources anytime and any place as long as they have access to the internet. E-learning can involve students accessing digital resources in class, just at home, or a combination of both. It can include videos, audio, interactive websites, online forums as well as text and images. It can incorporate mobile devices (phones, ipads, tablets).
 
How could we use E-learning?
- Subject – specific resources
- Cross-curriculum projects
- Welfare/Wellbeing resources
- Library resources
- Professional Learning for staff
​- Online courses/information for parents

What are the issues related to introducing E-learning?
- Staff training
- Staff time and enthusiasm
- Copyright issues - images, music, video, diagrams, etc
- Quality control
- Student access - across devices, using DEC internet
- Marketing the school
- Maintaining a competitive edge (seniors) - some people may be reluctant to share their senior resources.

There are a range of options that can be used to introduce E-learning:
- Moodle
- iPads/Apps
- Youtube
- Gaming
- Edmodo
- Weebly/wordpress,etc

Type

Moodle




​Youtube











​iPads/Apps






​Gaming










​Edmodo













​Weebly (or any other website creators)

Pros

Secure
Students can access files from home
Students can submit work

​Easy to use
Students can access from home
Doesn’t require any specific program to play the video
Can be used within other programs (e.g. facebook, edmodo, weebly, blogs)
Teachers can access videos to play using a teacher account and play it to the class on a data projector or smartboard.


​Can be used on excursions
Lightweight
Multi-function
Easy to useGreat content
Great interactivity



​Students gain deep knowledge through experiential learning
Students can not progress until mastering skills
Student gain knowledge “Just-In-Time” and are required to apply knowledge
Can be time consuming
Relies on student choice and completion of stages .

​Secure
Students can access files  and links from home
Students can submit work
Works like  Facebook so students (and most probably some teachers) are familiar with it
Interactive – forums, question/answer, etc
Can be set up so that students use DEC email to create student profiles

​Super easy to use
Very visual
Can use video, images, etc
​Students can create their own sites/blogs

Cons

Out-dated layout?
Hard to use
Not visually attractive
No one has been using it

Students can’t access on DEC internet (so they can’t play the video for themselves during classtime)
Requires teachers to set up their own account to upload videos
Copyright restrictions on what can be published (e.g.music)






​Expensive
Easy to break
Problems with transferring data
Problems showing some items on Apple devices 
​Students don’t have devices
Students don’t have apps installed

​Teachers may not feel like enough content/outcomes are covered quickly enough.








​Like having a  2nd Facebook account
Students view it as a little nerdy
Hard to find/access resources that were posted in the past (e.g. 6 months ago)
Can look a bit cluttered and messy.








​Some pages will need to be password protected
Needs someone to manage the overall structure and website hosting 
Students can’t submit work through the actual site.