Invited presentation to staff in Dublin Institute of Technology, September 4th, 2017. Looking more particularly at the sourcing, production and use of video.
Getting Bang for your Buck from Learning Technologies - Maximising Impact, Minimising Effort.
1. Brian Mulligan, BE, MED
IT Sligo Centre for Online Learning
DIT, 4th September, 2017.
Getting “Bang for your Buck” from
Learning Technologies
Maximising impact, minimizing effort
3. Topics
• Overview of available tools
• Benefits of Academic Video
• Providing videos to students
• Modes for use
• Discussion
• The future??
4. Things you might find in an online course
• Live online classes
• Short (and long videos)
• Multimedia
• Reading materials
• Links to free materials
• Quizzes
• Assignments with
feedback and grading
• Online simulations
• Discussion boards
– with or without instructors
• Face to face meetings
– College visits, practical
laboratories, local meetups
• Home lab kits / field
exercises
• Remote lab access
• Supervised Exams
– F2F or online
5. • Virtual Reality
• Augmented reality
• Artificial Intelligence
– Data analytics identifying opportunities for
intervention
– Adaptive learning systems
– Generating learning content
– Advisors
6. Technology
Enhanced
Learning
• Reading materials
• Links to free materials
• Quizzes
• Assignments with feedback and grading
• Online simulations (+VR)
• Live online classes
• Short (and long videos)
• Discussion boards
7. Benefits of Academic Video
1. Reduces pressure to take notes in class
2. Students can learn at their own pace (pause)
• Replay difficult concepts
• Review for assignments
• Revision for exams
• Reduce “falling behind”
• Mitigate attendance problems
• Disability issues
17. Software
• Powerpoint (“Office Mix”)
– Slides (only), drawing, easy editing
• Screenr (screencasting)
– Anything you can do on screen
– Not easy editing
• Youtube Live
– Screencasting + automatic publishing
• Camtasia Studio €
– Powerful editing
• Panopto (Lecture Capture) €€
– Automatic recording / publishing
18. Tips for
making
videos
• Lower your expectations
• Tolerate mistakes
• Keep it simple
• Minimise editing
• Keep short (4-10 minutes)
• Use a good microphone
• Use good PPT technique
– Key words / phrases
– Lots of whitespace
– Animation
– Images
• Do you need a script?
19. moocs4all.eu
• Low-cost methods for making MOOCs
• MOOC: “Making MOOCs on a Budget”
The Team
Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland
Technical University of Delft, Holland
Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany
University of Girona, Spain
Bath Spa University, UK
LoCoMoTion Project
21. Online Learning
“Free Trade Agreement”
• Access to each others’ lecturers
• Policy commitment:
– No restriction on collaboration
– Allow lecturers to teach for partners IoTs
– Access to modules from partners
• Impact
– Speed development of content and programmes
– Build skills and culture
brian.mulligan.googlepages.com
22. A biased glimpse into the future?
• Impact on “modes” of learning
• Some trends changing how people will choose
to learn
25. • 300 AI students
• Trained to answer based on
prior responses
• Only answers if confidence
rate > 97%
• Frees humans to do more
complex
technical/philosophical
inquiries
• Teaching award
Bots
As
Teaching
Assistant
s
26. ANT text or video
Semantic
engine
Active
learning
wildfirelearning.co.uk
27. Cost reduction
• Decrease in cost of -
– Delivery
– Development
– Support
• F2F part-time will mostly disappear.
• Online will be dominated by large providers
28. • Can assessment and certification be free?
– MC Quizzes, Peer assessment
• Can we certify learning from MOOCs?
moocs4all.eu
45. Some shots in the dark!
• Lifelong learning >>> Fulltime education
– Online and blended
• Costs will come down
• Automation and AI will be important
• Unbundling, RPL and CBE will be significant
• College accreditation will be less important
• Less school leavers will go to college fulltime.
– Apprenticeship + WBL
– Alternative credentials and online distance learning
Thank you!
Brian Mulligan
Brian.mulligan.googlepages.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
I’ve been formally and informally helping colleagues for 20 years in Sligo
“How much time will this take me to do”
I think video may provide the best impact/effort ratio.
This is the first time I’ve presented on this topic – it may seem narrow – but give what I believe is its “value for money” and the fact that it does link to other e-learning issues it is worth concentrating on.
All these changes are creeping into campus learning – incremental.
Note – not like the picture – lower your expectations – 80/20 rule – think Khan Academy
Here's something simple we can do.
Teach just as before – very easy and cheap to record and publish.
Do you need to give these lectures again next year?
Fiendishly simple, it takes ANY Document or PowerPoint or Video and turns it, with 1-click, into online learning.