Unit Open and distance learning Lesson Developing it skills(lesson15) Objectives

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Exercise 3.(8 min) Ask the following question from the students:
- How to strengthen the power of self-study?
Ask the students to read the success story of the grandpa. Invite some volunteers to retell some successful lives of people they know.
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Exercise 5.(10 min) Give students enough time to read the passage about e-portfolio. Put students in small groups and let them discuss the advantages of e-portfolios in language learning.
An electronic portfolio(also known as an portfolio, e-portfolio, digital portfolio, or online portfolio) is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web. Such electronic evidence may include inputted text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and hyperlinks. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the user’s abilities and platforms for self-expression, and, if they are online, they can be maintained dynamically over time. An e-portfolio can be seen as a type of learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement. Learning records are closely related to the Learning Plan, an emerging tool that is being used to manage learning by individuals, teams, communities of interest, and organizations. To the extent that a Personal Learning Environment captures and displays a learning record, it also might be understood to be an electronic portfolio. E-portfolios, like traditional portfolios, can facilitate students’ reflection on their own learning, leading to more awareness of learning strategies and needs. [2] Results of a comparative research, by M. van Wesel and Prop, between paper-based portfolios and electronic portfolios in the same setting, suggest use of an
electronic portfolio leads to better learning outcomes.


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Exercise 6. (10 min) Organize a group discussion using the following eliciting the following questions:
- What are the qualities of a person with independent study skills?
- Do you have these qualities?
- What skills that you have learnt will be useful in your study and your future profession?
- What other autonomous learning skills you think you need to develop and how you can do it?