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ABE09: Online Learning and Academic Writing
Module Tutor: Amy Burgess
Module Aims:
This on-line course provides an opportunity for participants to reflect on and critically analyse their own experience of on-line learning and writing in the light of relevant research literature, especially drawing on social practice perspectives on language and learning.
Module Syllabus:
This module is in two parts, each supported by a written discussion paper, activities focussed on the topics listed.
Part A: REFLECTING ON LEARNING ONLINE
- What is online learning?
- Pedagogies of online learning
- The process of learning in an online networked learning programme
- The experience of online learning
- Literacy, language and numeracy and online learning
Part B: ACADEMIC LITERACIES
- What are 'academic literacies'?
- Academic literacies in relation to whole-life literacies
- What makes writing 'academic'?
- Key issues in research on academic writing
Module Objectives:
- To enable ALNE practitioners to document their experiences in two critical areas of learning: on-line learning and writing, and to understand the links between them
- To enable participants to critically reflect on these experiences in the light of the relevant published literature on social practice theories of literacy and learning;
- To reflect on writing of MA assignments, viewing academic writing one type of writing within the range of writing they carry out as a professional educator;
- To produce insights which can be applied to participants own teaching practices and enable them to develop their own writing;
- To develop students' abilities to recognise and use academic writing
genres within the VLE environment
Module Assignment:
Either:
1 x 2500 analytic report on the your experience of on-line learning
1 x portfolio of a range of your writing with critical reflective commentary
of 2500 words
or
1x 5000 word assignment addressing the combined issues of on-line learning and writing for adults, drawing on the published literature and the your own learning experiences.
Course participants must contribute at least 1,000 words to the a-synchronous discussions during the course sessions. These contributions are qualificatory only and will not be assessed, but participants will be encouraged to build on them in their end of course assignment.
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