Sight Unseen: Effective Pedagogy for Online Environments

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Sight UnseenEffective Pedagogy for Online
Environments
Dr. Mary Pat Sjostrom Chaminade University of
Honolulu msjostro_at_chaminade.edu
Dr. Walter Cotter Georgia State
University wcotter_at_gsu.edu
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Elements of this Presentation

• Seven Principles for Good Practice
• Course Management Systems
• Essential tools
• Resources

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Seven Principles for Good Practice In
Undergraduate EducationGood Practice
1. Encourages Student-faculty Contact.
5. Emphasizes Time on Task.
2. Encourages Cooperation among Students.
6. Communicates High Expectations.
3. Encourages Active Learning.
7. Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning.
4. Gives Prompt Feedback
Source Chickering, A.W, and Gamson, Z.F. "Seven
Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate
Education." AAHE Bulletin, 1987, 39(7), 3-7.
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Mary Pats Perspective

• In the original presentation this slide was the
  first of six that created an animation from
  screenshots of Google earth.
• It showed Chaminade from the air and pulled back
  to show all of the islands and then eventually
  turned to North America.
• The point was that Mary Pats Students were
  geographically separated.

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Mary Pats Perspective

• Teaching online is necessary
• Students are scattered across the islands
• and the U.S.!
• Lecture is not my style
• Hands on activities
• Cooperative assignments
• Goal Dont compromise pedagogy.

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Walters Perspective

• 80 of teachers who move from T4 to T5
  (Bachelors to Masters Degree) in the state of
  Georgia do it outside the USG.

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GEORGIA ONmyLINEGOML http//www.georgiaonmyline.o
rg/

• Five Universities
• Columbus State University
• Georgia Southern University
• Georgia State University
• North Georgia College State University
• Valdosta State University

• Six M.Ed. degrees
• Accomplished Teaching
• Instructional Technology
• Reading, Language, and Literacy Education
• Middle Grades
• Mathematics
• Science
• Two MAT degrees
• Reading, Language and Literacy Education
• Special Education

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Essential Course Tools in CMS (Course Management
System)

• Secure website for a course
• Flexible platform allows an instructor to create
  a classroom environment and facilitate learning
• Basic cable
• Calendar, Mail, Discussion, Testing
• Enhanced cable
• Gradebook, Whiteboard, chat room
• 500 Channels (and nothings on)
• Video conferencing, Virtual meeting space, avatars

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CMS Platforms

• Blackboard
• GeorgiaView WebCT Vista uLearn
• Atutor http//www.atutor.ca/
• Desire2Learn http//www.desire2learn.com/
• Moodle http//moodle.org/
• Sakai http//sakaiproject.org/index.php
• See also http//www.sakaiproject.org/media2/2006/o
  verview/overview.htm

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Which CMS product?

• Edutools CMS comparison site
• http//www.edutools.info/static.jsp?pj4pageHOME
  
• Edutools Glossary
• http//www.edutools.info/glossary.jsp?pj4

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Elluminate and Wimba
http//www.wimba.com/
http//www.elluminate.com/

• conference call everyone hears the same
  audio.
• Everyone talks at once or pass a microphone.
• Literally a chat room.
• Can share a whiteboard or any application on the
  host computer.

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Faculty Literacy

• Online Instructor Certification Course
  http//www.cnm.edu/depts/dl/OIC/
• Training on campus
• Training online (FLO)
• http//www.ngcsu.edu/ce/flo_page.htm
• Text resources such as Teaching and Learning
  Online Communication, Community, and Assessment
  www.umass.edu/oapa/oapa/publications/online_handbo
  oks/Teaching_and_Learning_Online_Handbook.pdf

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Faculty Resources

• BlackBoard Greenhouse Winners
• http//communities.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/f
  rameset.jsp?tab_id_130_1
• http//www.blackboard.com/us/index.bb
• Learning Objects - Dr. Robert J. Beck
• U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Center for
  International Education
• http//www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/learningobjects.ht
  ml
• MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for
  Learning and Online Teaching
• http//www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• Webquest http//webquest.org/index.php

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More Resources

• Annenberg videos
• http//www.learner.org/
• Virtual Manipulatives
• http//nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
• TI Atomic videos
• http//movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/ti_84
• Digital Library of Georgia
• http//dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?Welcome
• Textbook materials from publishers

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Screen Capture Software

• Software that will allow you to make a learning
  object out of anything you can produce on the
  computer.
• Math Example
• http//www.gpc.edu/ahendric/Math1111/1111videopag
  e.htm
• Adobe Captivate 3
• http//www.adobe.com/products/captivate/
• Camtasia
• http//www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

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SORT Student Online Readiness Tool
http//www.alt.usg.edu/sort/
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Netiquette

• Netiquette should be an integral part of your
  communication plan.
• Netiquette Home Page
• http//www.albion.com/netiquette/
• Texting
• OMG, IDK, BFF
• Flaming
• Bullying
• Spam
• Car for sale
• Wet t-shirt contest

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Student Constraints

• I can't Its not working! Help!
• A course on how to take an online course
• University online resources
• Tutorials - library, webCT, LiveText
• MS Office Tutorial
• http//www.pitt.edu/edindex/OfficeindexXP2.html

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Technological Literacy

• System Functions
• Software
• Browsers
• Web based sources
• I read it on the webit must be true
• If you send this email to 10 other people in the
  next 30 minutes then Microsoft will send you
  67,000
• Wiki

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Students Shopping List

• Practical
• minimum requirements for online learning
• Computer
• Printer
• Headset with microphone
• Dial up ?
• SORT

• Dream
• Really nice to have
• Fast connection
• Convertible Tablet PC
• Office
• Adobe Pro
• AIO with ability to Scan to PDF
• Web Cam
• DV Camera

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Synchronous and Asynchronous

• Synchronous real time interactions
• Live chat
• Audio and video conferencing
• Data and application sharing
• Shared whiteboard
• Virtual hand raising
• Multimedia presentations and online slide shows

• Asynchronous anytime, anywhere interactions
• email
• Threaded discussions
• Newsgroups and bulletin boards
• File attachments slides, documents, learning
  objects
• Multimedia presentations and online slide shows

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Program Perspective

• Advising
• Communicate expectations
• Web pages for communication
• Phone
• Admission
• Portfolio management/assessment
• Program assessment

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Portfolios

• Blackboard
• LiveText
• http//www.livetext.com/
• Persistent record across semesters (3 years)
• Confusing to students to use two platforms

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30 Second commercial

• Students create a 30 second video that is
  essentially the elevator conversation at a
  conference
• Introduction to the portfolio
• Critiqued by other students

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Seven Principles for Good Practice In
Undergraduate EducationGood Practice
1. Encourages Student-faculty Contact.
5. Emphasizes Time on Task.
2. Encourages Cooperation among Students.
6. Communicates High Expectations.
3. Encourages Active Learning.
7. Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning.
4. Gives Prompt Feedback
Source Chickering, A.W, and Gamson, Z.F. "Seven
Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate
Education." AAHE Bulletin, 1987, 39(7), 3-7.
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Communication Plan
1. Student-faculty Contact.
2. Encourages Cooperation among Students.
4. Prompt Feedback

• Be consistent in your communication patterns.
• Do not change horse midstream.
• Students should be able to rely on finding the
  same type of information in the same place each
  time announcements
• Assignments, emails, discussions, announcements
• Are assignments always posted to the assignment
  tool or do you use the calendar one week and an
  email the next.
• Turnaround time
• 24 hours for emails during the week
• 48 hours for emails on the weekend

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Build Learning Community
1. Student-faculty Contact.
2. Encourages Cooperation among Students.
4. Prompt Feedback

• Discussion Plan
• Do not reply to every posting in a discussion.
• Monitor and moderate if needed
• When the thread has run its course post a
  response to the entire thread that summarizes
  content.
• Or ask a student to summarize
• Advantages
• Your single post allows students the room to
  develop the thread
• Allows you to concentrate on the content of the
  thread instead of keeping up with individual
  responses
• Communicates that although you are silent during
  the activity, you are present and observant
• Cooperative Learning
• Build PowerPoint presentations together
• Scan stuff and analyze
• Student interaction

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Rubrics
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Rubrics
1. Student-faculty Contact.
5. Time on Task.
4. Prompt Feedback
7. Respect Diverse talents and ways of learning.
3. Encourages Active Learning.
6. High Expectations.
2. Encourages Cooperation among Students.