Computational Thinking

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."-Einstein

Why should computational thinking guide online education?

Students are different now than

Education

Faculty

BUT

Why is it relevant to online eduation?

Computational Thinking (CT)

• abstraction
• patterns
• modeling
• recursive thinking
• algorithms
• creativ thinking

Computational thinking is

CT "represents a universally applicable

How could CT help faculty

online education transition

Diffusion of Innovations

Change

• Rogers considers change as a social system challenge
• Technology adoption model (TAM)
• Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)

Interpersonal challenges

• how will I relate to my students online?
• how will I receive cues that they are learning
• what will my online presence be like for me/for my students?

Technology adoption

• most experienced faculty are not digital natives
• learning curve and troubleshooting
• adapting to online lecture formats
• keeping up with technology changes
• technology reducing quality learning

Pedagogy

• how will my course deliver the same learning quality?
• will students latch on the the technology but not the learning?
• how do I transfer the pedagogy of my current course in face to face to an online presence?

Policy

• Recognition of online contributons
• Administration of courses at all levels
• Workload
• Time for research
• Student support such as counselling

Support

• technical
• scholarly
• instructional design
• administrative
• fiscal

Can CT help

Conceptualizing problems

Decomposition

Pattern Recognition

Abstraction

Parallels

Algorithms

Applications of CT to online education?

Your thoughts?

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