Subject Design Essentials -

Preparing to Launch

‘Bite & Byte’ Series May-June 2017

Professional Learning - FoAEJulie Lindsay - QLT Lead (online)

Find these slides onlinehttp://tinyurl.com/SubDesignESS17

Our AgendaIn 30 minutes!

Get ready for the ride!

• Subject Outline (MSI)

• Landing page

• Introduction - Contacts

• Navigation design

• Content - Learning modules

• Discussion forum

• Announcements

• Learning activities

How ‘engaging’ is your subject?

● Are students able to and motivated to come online?

● Do students socialise and interact with each other?

● Is there a sense of community?

● Is active information exchange and learning taking place?

● How are you facilitating this?

SocialBuilding a learning community

Collaborative

spaces

Effective communication

Psychological

Emotional

Learner engagement

Learner interaction

Three ACTIONS for engagement:Build an online learning communityEstablish teacher presence and interaction Encourage student interaction

Look! Subject Preparation Checklisthttp://www.csu.edu.au/division/student-learning/interact2_help/faculty-and-csu-staff/find-your-way-around/getting-started

http://tinyurl.com/CSUPrep -This URL takes you to the page above-This page is updated each session-Bookmark this link now!

Subject Outline (SO/MSI)How are you advising students of the subject experience?

Advisement of tools used for assessment

Further advice about tools used to support learning and interaction

Subject Outline (SO/MSI)How are you advising students of the subject experience?

Online meeting information

Discussion forum advisement of protocols

Landing pagesWhat are your students experiencing when they enter Interact 2 for your subject?

Dynamic landing pages - More ‘how to’ resources●Video - https://youtu.be/WIIOJgpQpeE ●PDF file - http://tinyurl.com/BBlandPDF

Please avoid the blank template…..…...not a good look

All subjects should have a designed and functional landing page….

Designed landing pageUse of images

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Landing pages: Static

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Landing pages: Static

Another designed landing page and great use of images

Something new added most weeks - design will change

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Landing pages: Dynamic

Designed landing pageUse of teacher welcome videoTeacher-created video to share library skills

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Landing pages - Combination

Introductions How are your students getting to know you when they enter Interact 2 for your subject?

Create a Welcome video - ‘how to’ resources●Video - https://youtu.be/tLjRf2qL0QQ●PDF file - http://tinyurl.com/BBvideo1PDF

Navigation designHow will your students find their way around the Interact 2 for your subject?

The Navigation story……...the short

Very simple - too much so?

Section headings - very effective

Longer - still organised for clarity?

……...the longer

Section headings - longer version

Organised with one Section heading

Regular podcasts shared in navigation

Teacher shares title, description and length of each meeting

Separate modules linked from navigation

Left: Schedule with hyperlinks to modulesBelow: New Forum design

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Adobe Connect Tutorial Online Meeting

Clear meeting headings, times, and description of what took place

Content - Learning ModulesHow are your students experiencing and leveraging content via the Interact 2 for your subject?

Look! Images to support your online content! - http://tinyurl.com/CSUPicPerfect

Module designInclusion of multimedia material

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Module design - Use of FoAE icons

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Discussion ForumsHow are students experiencing the Interact 2 Forums for your subject?

How to design a discussion forum - find out here:https://youtu.be/2CxMQ60zEBY

Discussion Forum Purposes

Learning Community

●A place to go often to interact with all other learners (teachers and students)

●To explore new ideas, ask questions, synthesise module content, form groups, co-create…..

Student-to-Student Interaction

●Students build knowledge as they interact, share, synthesize the subject content and build discussions

around this

Teacher Presence that leads to Teacher-to-Student Interaction

●It is important that the teacher is present and active in learning forums

●Teacher-to-student interaction goes beyond teacher presence to become a learning environment where

the teacher and students interact, share ideas, discuss concepts in more depth and more.

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How will YOU design and manage this?

Design Options

Teacher-led

Student-led

Strong teacher presence

Design decided by the teacher

Design decided by the student

Multiple forums running

concurrently

Sequential forums

Moderated by a teacher

Moderated by students

Direct assessment

Direct links from module

content

Entries have

prescribed format

One for procedural, others

for content

Setting up a Discussion Forum

• Forum = A main discussion topic/theme

• Thread = Second-level discussions around the forum topic/theme

Example:Module 1 Forum

• Topic 1 (Thread)

• Topic 2 (Thread)

Get started here!

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Designing a Discussion Forum Start with adding Forums

Within the Forums, add Threads

Important – Do you want students to start their own

threads?

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FORUM NAME

A ‘social’ forum for less academic interaction

Subject module forums

Subject assessment forums

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Introductory discussions

FORUM DESCRIPTIONS

Colloquium forum with student moderation and summary posting

A typical discussion forum with many areas

Discussion Forum Management: Lecturer Feedback

Lecturer provides a feedback thread the following week after reading and interacting with students ideas from the module

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Forum design – Before (left) and after (below)

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AnnouncementsInteract 2 announcements are

NOT ‘social media’. They are official university

communication.

• Clear subject line

• Adhere to protocol for official communication - greetings and closings

• Add correct signature

• Regular

• Informative

• Consider a weekly ‘template’ approach

• Include hyperlinks and images

Announcements - suggested templateSubject line: (Subject code) Week 1 (Name of module or focus)

Dear students

An interesting comment about the previous week, something about the learning that has taken placeAny important information that needs to be shared up front.

What you should be working on:●List module and other reading material●List pending assignments●List online meetings or activities to be part ofWhat you should be planning for:●Assignments coming up●Meetings and activities coming up

Closing greeting

Full nameSignature (with email and telephone)

READ Judy O’Connell’s blog post, ‘Images in Announcements - what’s the catch?’ on the QLT Online blog

Learning ActivitiesWhat designed activities are planned to support information exchange and knowledge construction?

Introductions - What is the FIRST activity students will do in your subject?

Introductions online - Padlet complements the Forum introduction!●Visual●Multimedia●Interactive

https://padlet.com/julielindsay/1730ETL523

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Learning Activities

Learning ActivitiesWhat designed activities are planned to support information exchange and knowledge construction?

Interactions/Discussions

ETL523 - Digital Citizenship in SchoolsSubject content discussion Week 2-3Flipgrid supports interactive conversations●Video and audio responses and●Individual responses can be embedded into blogs, i2 etc.

Interactions/Discussions - What further activities support socialisation and information exchange?

Learning ActivitiesWhat designed activities are planned to support information exchange and knowledge construction?

Interactive Assessments - How are learning activities embedded in assessment?

Assessment Item 1Interactive Piece - Value: 5%Due date: 17 July 2017Length: Part A - 400 words or 90 second video padlet post. Part B - 200 word or 45 second padlet response to another student.

TaskUsing Padlet create a post that introduces yourself to the rest of the cohort. Within this post, briefly discuss your thoughts regarding the impact that leisure and health activities can have on one of the following populations - older persons, children with an intellectual disability, people with a mental health disorder, or people who are wheelchair bound. Provide a response to at least one other student’s Padlet post. Choose from these options for your contribution:●Video - Padlet will embed a video uploaded from your device (phone , tablet or computer). Padlet will also embed a video located on YouTube or another place in the web●Audio - Same as video - create the file and then upload or share the URL●Image - Padlet will use your webcam to take a quick picture as needed●Text - The contribution box allows for a Heading (larger font) and a posting area (smaller font)●Response to another post - Each person has a ‘Comment’ place under their post - this is where you can leave a text comment

Module 3 activityModifying leisure activities - Student smackdown!This is your opportunity to pitch a modified leisure activity and be the voted the BEST activity designer for the week!Task: ●Consider a person with a condition that affects them either physically, psychologically or physiologically.●Select and modify a leisure activity to accommodate this person●Pitch/Smackdown your modified activity in around 200 words on the Forum●Respond to other student pitches with comments, questions, suggestions for further improvements etc.●The student with the MOST comments and interaction to their post wins the Smackdown!

This activity prepares for Assessment 3: Research paper

Salmon, G. (2013). E-tivities: The key to active online learning. Routledge.

Learning E-tivitiesHow can you support learning and interactivity in your subject?

This five-stage framework provides one way to understand the ‘stepped’ approach to implementing online learning activities, or ‘e-tivities’

Look! Teacher Presence….Behaviours• Set clear expectations and be consistent throughout your course.• Be present in the course in some way 3-4 times each week.• Encourage questions.• Model the behaviors you expect students to exhibit.• Refer to students by name when possible.• Admit when you make a mistake. It will make you more real and students

appreciate that!• Don't try to be perfect. Students appreciate instructors they can relate to.• Give regular feedback on assignments. If it is a group activity, defer to email

when sensitive or firm guidance is necessary. Group feedback should be benefit all learners.

• Share your stories. Let your passion for what you do come through in your online class.

• Represent the most important information in multiple ways: text, image, and video. This is Universal Design for Learning and it supports the way more people learn.

• Be clear about how you wish to be contacted and how quickly you will respond. Have this included in your syllabus as your "instructor communication policy."

• Track student log-ins using the Student Performance Dashboard. Contact students through email who appear to be struggling or are not logging in.

• Reach out to students by phone who you seem to have disappeared.

http://page.teachingwithoutwalls.com/instructorpresencestrategiesci

Look! Teacher Presence….Strategies

• Create a 5-minute video to introduce yourself to your new students. Consider recording it in a favorite setting (using a mobile device with an YouTube Capture) to personalize it.

• Mix an upbeat welcome video or course bumper with text, images, and webcam clips using Animoto.

• Create a course design tutorial video to orient students to the navigation of your course in week one. This can be done with Camtasia, Screenflow, or a free tool like Screencast-o-matic or Screenr.

• Record a 3-5 minute video to introduce each new learning module. Avoid referencing dates and focus on tying content back to the past unit and introducing the new content.

• Embed a 3-5 minute video of yourself sharing a story that personalizes content your students are learning about.

• Provide feedback in video or voice (try Jing or VoiceThread) to make your message more meaningful and reduce the chance of it being misunderstood (Ice, Curtis, Phillips & Wells, 2007).

http://page.teachingwithoutwalls.com/instructorpresencestrategiesci

How can you use these resources to keep your head above the clouds?

To enrich YOUR subject and foster engagement?

Questions?

Thank you!

Julie Lindsay Quality Learning and Teaching Leader (online) FoAEjlindsay@csu.edu.au

You will find these slides (and lots more PD resources!) on the FoAE Quality Learning and Teaching i2 organisation https://goo.gl/ZjOiu9

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