VIRTUAL EVENT: Designing digital learning experiences
What are the things that we do better in digital learning than in face-to-face learning? What do we need to consider when designing digital learning experiences?
VIRTUAL EVENT: Designing digital learning experiences
26 Jun 2020, 13:00 – 14:00
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The COVID-19 pandemic has unceremoniously thrusted the value of digital technology into the spotlight - in preserving work, play, and learning - at a time when physical interactions are constrained.
The pandemic has rendered face-to-face lessons impossible for a period and made all teachers and students design and participate in digital learning experiences.
The use of semiotic technologies for learning and teaching brings with it both possibilities and limitations in pedagogic meaning-making.
In this webinar, Dr Fei Victor Lim will apply a multimodal social semiotic perspective for exploring the gains and losses of digital learning. He will draw from Gunther Kress who proposed a set of lenses to study “the question of gains and losses: focusing both on the material and/or semiotic mean, the modes, and the material communicational means, the media … in the context”.
He will discuss how the teacher, as a designer of learning, can exercise an awareness and recognition of the ‘gains and losses’ that specific semiotic technologies afford. He will also share his reflections from his recent experience in designing digital learning for his postgraduate students.
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Assistant Professor
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Dr Lim researches and teaches on multiliteracies, multimodal discourse analysis, and digital learning. He serves as consultant for the World Bank on digital skills and is on the editorial team of Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Computers and Composition, and Designs for Learning.
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Cost
Free
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All
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Yes