Educatıonal Experience

 Hello again! Today, I summarized 'Educational Experience'  with a few paragraphs. :) 🙋

How to make distant education more attractive for students?

There is a framework whose umbrella term is educational experience. This umbrella concept refers to combination of the four following points. If we, as teachers, do not integrate technology and media in our teaching, lessons will be dull and meaningless.

One of the points we have just mentioned is social presence. In online education, every students is somewhere else, in different places in contrast to being in a real classroom together with their friends. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the lesson, we should make students feel together. With this purpose, we can design or search for different warm up activities which enable students to feel their togetherness. Warm ups can be sometimes ice breaking questions, games and communicatice activities.

Here is the transactional presence. Students should feel be able to relate their feeling with the classmates. Relatable feelings are important in their learning journeys. In the online classes, instead of sitting and listening passively, students should create information for their own learning. After creating the information, they should present their ideas, opinions to the class, so that they can share information with others. In this way, exchanging the information becomes more meaningful because of information being their own product.

Another point that I would like to highlight is cognitive presence. Cognitive presence means being in the task. Fundamental goal here is to construct internal (monitoring, reflection..) and external (colloboration, management..) constructions that is necessary in learning effectively with the help of internet and technology. In this way, students perform communicative tasks, exchange informations and opinions.Hence, students participate lessons and try to be more active, which maintains the curiosity for the subject.

The last but not least term is teaching presence which includes processes such as designing, facilitating. Teachers design tasks, plan lessons, create contents for the class. They are expected to bring new activities and tasks to the class in order not to bore students with the same activity again and again. While designing and creating, teacher should be careful about the load of the information. They should not cognitively overload students because if they do so, they will hinder learning.