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Task 1: HORIZON 2022 REPORT

The Educause Horizon report, which is released annually, offers a critical discourse on trends, key technologies, and scenarios in Higher Education. Assume that you are required to provide a concise summary of the report in your own words in a 10-minute presentation to Unisa lecturers.

- The report, as well as a Word document that you will use in completing the task, are available in the Additional Resources folder. Read the sections "Trends: Scanning the Horizon" and "Key Technologies & Practices" with attention. Only focus on the Impact sub-sections - ignore the sub-sections titled Evidence.
- We are interested in the knowledge presented in each section - the important information that one will extract and use in a literature review.
- Copy and paste the structure from the Word document to your answer sheet. Please do not change the structure/formatting. Fill the empty cells with your understanding of the section. To guide you, we have presented our knowledge of the first sub-topic Social Trends (Hybrid and online learning). You will then start with Skills-based learning.

Task 2: WEB 2.0
Web 2.0 refers to those Web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration between parties. These include technology tools such as blogs, forums, wiki, Twitter and WhatsApp. Assume you are a lecturer. You are interested in using these technologies in your course/s, but before you do, you decide to consult the formal research literature to learn from researchers who have used these technologies in their courses and are now reporting their experiences.

In previous tasks, you were required to extract specific information or a broader view from a paragraph, a section or a subsection. The purpose of this task is to gain an overall understanding at the article level. It follows that your summaries will have a flow to them - much like telling someone about a movie you have seen.

For each technology listed here above (blogs, forums, wiki, Twitter and WhatsApp), identify and summarize a formal research article/paper that focused on the use of the technology in an educational environment.

Repeat the table for WIKI, TWITTER and WHATSAPP.

Why? Ask yourself questions such as "Why did they implement the technology in their course? What did they hope to achieve? What was the purpose"?

How? How exactly was the technology employed in the course? What was required from students? What was the lecturer's role?

And? What was the outcome of the implementation? What have you learned?

Task 3: COMMUNITY OF ENQUIRY

An educational community of inquiry is a group of individuals (students and lecturers) who collaboratively engage in purposeful critical discourse and reflection to construct personal meaning and confirm mutual understanding (Garrison n.d.). In an e-learning environment, the use of an online discussion forum provides students with an opportunity for purposeful collaboration. To evaluate the effectiveness of such online collaboration, the Community of Inquiry (CoI) theoretical framework is considered the most influential and philosophical theory of an e-learning system. In essence, the theory proposes that the educational experience (amount of learning) individuals derive from participating in the forum will depend on the level of three essential elements: cognitive, social and teaching presence. Research has mostly tried to define the importance of each presence.

In practice, one will code all the forum posts made by students and lecturers using a pre-defined set of indicators. When these indicators are grouped into categories, it points to which elements are present in the forum environment. The table below presents the coding scheme.

In this task, the focus is on basic knowledge retrieval and synthesis of any aspect of CoI research as reported in 10 formal research articles.

You will have synthesised data or information from the sourced literature exceptionally well if you have met the following criteria:

- Where authors of sources have provided the same information, one very concise integrated account is provided.
- The views of any dissenting author, or an additional view by an author, are briefly reflected.
- Main similarities and differences between authors of sources are identified and briefly reflected, providing in effect an overview of the field.
- Good transitions are made between the various statements in the account so that the text flows well.

Attachment:- Horizon report.rar