Transformative Online and Hybrid Teaching

A 7-Module Faculty Development Program

in Online/Hybrid Teaching & Course Design

This Program :

• focuses on designing coherent, integrated courses

• prepares faculty to effectively infuse technology in online and hybrid courses to foster student interaction and engagement

Program Modules1. Foundations of Online & Hybrid Teaching2. Asynchronous Strategies3. Synchronous Strategies4. Creating Presentations and Podcasts5. Integrating On-line Resources6. Creating Social Presence and Fostering

Community7. Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online

Courses: (competencies, assessment, materials and activities, developing course syllabus)

Each Module Contains…

1. A selection of readings, videos, and other resources focused on the theories and practices on effective online and hybrid teaching

2. Reflection prompts to encourage inquiry and collaboration

3. Portfolio entrie(s) (technology-based products planned for integration in hybrid/online course)

4. Access to technology video tutorials and other resources providing guidance in use of online teaching tools.

Program is informed by the “community of inquiry” model to enhance presence

Program is grounded in an Ignatian Approach to Online Teaching

…and integrates Quality Matters® Standards for Online and Hybrid coursesA set of standards (rubric) for the design of online and hybrid courses:

Course Overview and Introduction Learning Objectives Assessment and Measurement Resources and Materials Learner Interaction Course Technology Learner Support Accessibility

Goals for: Foundations of Online/Hybrid Teaching Faculty will: Identify differences between teaching

online/hybrid and and face-to face. Investigate the role of teaching,

social, and cognitive presence in online teaching

Identify benefits and challenges of online and hybrid courses

Sample Materials: Foundations of Online/Hybrid Teaching

Best Practices in Online Teaching Strategies

A Constructivist Approach to Online Learning: The Community of Inquiry Framework

Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States

Introduction: Portfolio Entry

Create a Panopto recording of you answering the following questions. 1. Why are you interested in teaching online?

2. What do you see as the main benefits and possibilities in online teaching?

3. What are the drawbacks?

Foundations of Online/Hybrid Teaching : Technology Tutorials

Panopto Tutorial

Foundations of Online/Hybrid Teaching : Technology Tutorials

Panopto Sample

Module 2: Asynchronous Instructional Strategies Identify the characteristics of effective

asynchronous communication Differentiate between inadequate, excessive

and optimal levels of instructor participation in student asynchronous discussions.

Devise guidelines, expectations, goals and deadlines that lead to active, motivated, focused student participation in asynchronous discussions.

Recognize and develop discussion facilitation styles that encourage higher-order critical thinking and lead to constructivist learning dialogues

Sample Materials: Asynchronous Communication

1. From Message Posting to Learning Dialogues

2. Developing Teaching Practice for more Effective use of Asynchronous Discussion

3. Conducting Effective Online Discussions

4. Teaching with Online Discussion Forums

Module 2: Reflections

In what ways do you currently foster discussion in your teaching?

How would you plan to adapt your discussion facilitation strategies for an online setting?

What sort of challenges and opportunities do you foresee in making these modifications?

Module 2: Portfolio Entry (Discussion Forum)

Compose a new discussion forum that you could use on one of your courses.

Pose a question/prompt for students to begin discussion.

Add your own comment in which you explain how this discussion would contribute to student learning in your course.

Module 2: Portfolio Entry (Discussion Forum)

How would you plan facilitate discussion in this forum? What sort of challenges do you anticipate in facilitating a meaningful discussion using this tool?

How would you deal with these challenges?

Module 2: Portfolio Entry (Voicethread)

Create and share your own Voicethread in which you pose a question that you would use in one of your classes.

Module 2: Sample Technology Tutorials

Using Discussion Forums

Voicethread

Module 3: Synchronous Instructional Strategies Identify the characteristics of effective

synchronous communication

Identify strategies to facilitate interactive and productive synchronous meetings.

Devise guidelines, expectations, goals and deadlines that lead to active, motivated, focused student participation in synchronous discussions.

Sample Materials: Synchronous Communication Designing Interactive Webinars

Virtual Spaces

Bringing Life to E-Learning

Web Collaboration & Learning with AdobeConnect

Innovative Techniques in Synchronous Sessions

Module 3: Reflections

Adobe Connect Describe how you could use

synchronous discussions in one of your courses.

What role would these discussions have in fostering student learning in your course?

Module 3 Portfolio Entry Use Adobe Connect to Facilitate a Synchronous Session

This session will include other faculty who are completing the online teaching program. In your session is a PowerPoint slide or another visual prompt to summarize the ways in which you could use synchronous discussions in your teaching…

Also address what sort of opportunities and challenges you expect you would encounter when facilitating synchronous learning experiences for students.

Module 3 Portfolio Entry Use Adobe Connect to Facilitate a Synchronous Session

Module 3: Technology Tutorials

Sample AdobeConnect Tutorial

Sample Adobeconnect Recording

Module 4: Creating Presentations and Podcasts

Identify benefits of using recorded presentations and podcasts

Develop effective strategies for using recorded presentations.

Develop strategies for ways to use recorded presentations to "flip" the classroom

Create an effective audio and video recording that could be used in a hybrid or online course

Sample Materials: Presentations and Podcasts

Virtual Lecturing Flipped Classrooms Using Screencasts

to Enhance Student Feedback What is a Screencast & Why use one? Increase Student Engagement With P

odcasts Six Types of Podcasts

Module 4: Reflections

Explain how you might use audio and/or video presentations in one of your courses.

Module 4: Portfolio Entry (Audio Feedback)

1. Using a sample of student work from a course you have taught create an audio response using Audacity.

2. In your response provide the student with feedback on their work and suggestions for improvement.

Module 4: Portfolio Entry (Video Screencast)

Using Panopto, create a 5 to 10 minute video presentation that you could use in a course that you teach.

In the presentation provide either an introduction to the course itself or to a particular topic/concept. Use a PowerPoint presentation or alternative visual in your presentation. Save your presentation as a URL link. Sample recording

Module 4: Technology Tutorials

Using Audacity

Using Panopto

Module 5: Enhancing Participation through Online Resources

Explore the way social media can enhance student learning and engagement

Consider the ways that web2.0 tools can broaden students' access to knowledge and collaboration

Integrate social media and web-based resources into a course design

Sample Materials: Enhancing Participation through Online Resources To use or not use web2.0 in higher

education

Social Media use in Higher Education

Open Educational Resources

Teaching with Web2.0: Twitter, wikis, and blogs

Module 5: Reflections

Describe some ways that a course you teach could be enhanced by some external resources that contain content related to the course.

These resources could include RSS feeds, Twitter links, other websites, YouTube videos, and open source content related to your course content.

Module 5: Portfolio Entry (Create Blog)

Using the blog tool in Moodle or an another blog site, create a blog for a course you could teach online. In your blog create link to some external resources that contain content related to your course.

Include some of the following types of links: RSS feeds, Twitter links, other websites, YouTube videos, open source content related to your course content.

Module 5: Technology Tutorials

Using Blogs

Using Wikis

Module 6: Fostering Social Presence and Building Community

Identify the role of social presence in successful online teaching

Develop strategies to enhance student collaboration and teamwork

Understand the role of momentum and tone in online teaching

Sample Materials: Fostering Social Presence and Building Community

Instructor’s personality

Building Instructor and Social Presence

Best Practices in Online Education

Module 6: Reflections

How have you successfully created a sense of community among students in your face to face teaching experiences?

How do you think you might foster community-building in your online teaching?

Module 6: Portfolio Entry (Video Introduction)

Using Panaopto, create a 5 minute video introduction of yourself that you might use to introduce yourself to your students at the beginning of an online course.

Describe your own background and interests. Use some video cues such as photos, websites, or illustrations in your presentation.

Module 6 : Sample Technology Tutorials

Using Panopto

Using Panopto 2

Module 7: Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online Courses

Part 1: Course Competencies

Outline specific course and module learning objectives that are consistent, measurable, and clearly articulated.

Module 7: Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online Courses

Part 1: Course Competencies What thinking strategies and processes

do students need to develop?

What methods and techniques need to be learned?

What terminology and concepts are important to know?

Course Competencies: Sample Materials

Articulate Your Competencies

A Theoretical Framework for Effective Online Course Design

Planning Your Online Class

Competencies: Reflections & Portfolio Entry

What thinking strategies and processes do students need to develop?

What methods and techniques need to be learned?

What terminology and concepts are important to know?

What do student’s need to experience at a personal level that will contribute to their growth as persons for others?

Competencies: Reflections & Portfolio Entry

Portfolio Assignment: Outline course competencies including the strategic knowledge, procedural knowledge, facts and concepts.

Module 7: Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online Courses

Part 2: Assessment

1. Develop a variety of assessments that measure the stated learning objectives are sequenced, varied, and appropriate

2. Create specific and descriptive criteria for the evaluation of students work and participation

Module 7: Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online Courses

Part 2: Assessment

3. Design an explicit course grading policy

4. Develop assessment strategies that provide for student self-assessment and ability to measure their own progress.

Sample Materials: Assessment

Thinking about Evidence of Mastery

How Experts Differ From Novices

Think Aloud Technique

Sample Materials: Assessment

Assessing Learning in Online Education

Online Assessment Strategies

Evaluating Online Discussions

Assessment: Reflections & Portfolio Entry How will you know if students have

mastered the competencies in your course?

What types of complex problems will they be able to solve?

How will students think and behave as evidence of their ability?

Portfolio Assignment:1. Assessment Evidence 2. Explanation of Grading Criteria

Module 7: Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online CoursesPart 3: Materials & Learning Experiences

Develop: Instructional materials that contribute to the

achievement of course competencies and module/unit objectives

Learning experiences that provide opportunities for student/content, student/student, student/teacher interaction

Technology tools and strategies that support course learning competencies

Sample Materials: Online Course Content MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org):

Searchable, rated (mostly free) database of learning objects provided by instructors

MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm): Free access to over 1,700 courses, readings, audio and video clips provided by instructors at MIT.

Sample Materials: Online Course Content

 Annenberg Media (http://www.learner.org): Access Annenberg Media discovery learning programming, including audio and video clips, for educational use. You can link to any of the clips in their web site and enhance the content of your course. Free sign up is required for first-time users.

You Tube (www.youtube.com): A vast collection of video clips that might hold some treasures you can use.

Sample Materials: Online Course Content

 Teacher Tube (www.teachertube.com): The educational version of YouTube.

TED (Ideas Worth Spreading) (www.TED.com): A free, moderated collections of speeches on a variety of topics by notable and unknown speakers

Sample Materials: Interactive Technologies Get Your Head In The

Cloudssocialnetworkinginclass.ning.com

introduces top technology tools. Tools are described, modeled and rated in terms of its usefulness to online instructors.

Delicious- www.delicious.comA social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share web pages with a community.

 Top 100 Tools for Learning- c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html Listing of over 2000 tools suitable for the managing learning.

Learning Style Assessment and Guides - www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp

Provides individuals to complete a learning styles assessment, and view “Helpsheets” that list the best activities suited to their learning style.

Activities and Materials: Reflections and Portfolio Entry How will your course activities and materials activities promote student-student, student-instructor, and student-content interaction

Portfolio Assignment: List the learning activities and

course materials used in your course. Explain how these activities and materials promote student attainment of course objectives

Module 7: Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online Courses

Part 4: Creating an Online/Hybrid Course

Faculty create a course syllabus that incorporates:

Module 7: Designing Integrated Hybrid/Online Courses

Part 4: Creating an Online/Hybrid Course 1. Explicit learning competencies for a course2. Learning materials that contribute to the achievement

of the stated course and module/unit learning objectives.

3. Course activities that promote the achievement of the stated learning objectives, provide opportunities for interaction; and integrate technology into the course design in ways that support student engagement.

Part 4: Creating an Online/Hybrid Course Develop an course introduction that makes

clear how to get started and where to find various course components and introduces students to the purpose and structure of the course

Develop course instructions that link to a clear description of the technical support offered

Ensure that the course employs accessible technologies and provides guidance on how to obtain accommodation.

Sample Materials: Creating an Online/Hybrid Course

Constructing an Effective Online Syllabus

A Theoretical Framework for Effective Online Course Design

Ray Schroeder's Online Learning Update

Developing and Teaching an Online/In-class Hybrid: A Demonstration. www.sbaweb.wayne.edu/~absel/bkl/.%5Cvol31%5C31ae.pdf

Creating an Online/Hybrid Course: Create Syllabus

Develop course syllabus that contains:

Learning materials that contribute to the achievement of the stated course and module/unit learning objectives.

Course activities that promote the achievement of the stated learning objectives, provide opportunities for interaction that support active learning;

Technology integrated into the course design in ways that support student engagement.

Develop an course introduction that makes clear how to

get started and where to find various course components and introduces students to the purpose and structure of

the course

Develop course instructions that link to a description of the technical support offered

Ensure that the course employs accessible technologies and provides guidance on how to obtain accommodation.

Creating an Online/Hybrid Course: Create Syllabus

Creating an Online/Hybrid Course: Technology Resources

Moodle Course Design

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