Reflections For Day 2, A&ILE

Continued with the previous day's efforts, I'd managed to create my first Blog.
Some achievements today were,

• created my first blog
• using of gmail as a form of learning environment
• making use of LessonBox for online asynchronous learning
• using MindMap to capture learning points for revision

Today's Learning Focus,as I've gathered, as follows,

1. What to assess about the Learning Environment?
- Physical
- Student
- Social

2. How assessment instrument came to be?
Development of LE inventory
Murray's need-press model > Walberg&Moo's research on classroom&school climate > Moo's LEI > Moo's CES > reaffirming Lewin's theory that interaction of personal character and environment determines human behaviour (learning). > developed Assessment Instruments for different learning environment.

Learning Environment Inventory is based on Moo's Scheme of,
Relationship Dimension
Personal Development Dimension
System Maintenance & System Change Dimension

FIT = Interaction between the Learner with the environment and other people that results in a positive learning experience.

3. Why assess?
Is it a waste of time & resources?
Are learning outcome meant through, quality relationship of the teacher & learner situated in environment and interaction?
Is there 'beyond academic achievements', such as attitudinal enhancements?

Also, assessment of Web-based learning can be in the form of peers' feedback through sharing of blogs and other new media.

Additional Learning - State Changes employed by Dr Quek:

• Lecturing
• Individual work using computer
• Group learning through collaboration (research on Pioneers of LE, Barry J Fraser)
• Social interaction, 'a walk downhill to canteen for a cuppa and back'.
• Self Reflection using Blogger

Group Attributes - My inferences of the Group Work experience,

• Forming Stage, very cooperative and eager to engage and share.
• Able to focus on group objective of completing assignment in 30 min.
• Immediate volunteering of main role players to minimise dispute.
• Simple structure with immediate takers during tasks delegation.
• Understand & moderated personal standards & requirements to form and accept group standard.
• Focus on objective and allow learning to take place.

Social forming of group > Learning through interacting with Internet - Problem/Need > Criteria > Search > Retrieval > Processing > Completion > Comparing & Discussing(Internalising) > Evaluate >Substantiate > Conclude.