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Providing Engaging Online Learning
Experiences Through Design
April 1, 2015
Jenni Hayman, M.Ed
Digital Learning Design Consultant
All content in this presentation is shared
with a CC BY International 4.0 License
Welcome & Introductions
Please introduce yourself in the chat window
Describe your role in library/librarian education
and professional development
Describe your experience teaching, either face-
to-face or online
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this session you will:
 Contribute to a wall of teaching philosophies
 Give examples of online course design and learning
activities
 Manage your online teaching time more efficiently
 List 3 tools that engage learners and help improve
learning outcomes
Teaching Philosophy
Nathan Russell, Flickr Creative Commons By License
Let’s build…
http://padlet.com/jenni_hayman/p6cdc5czi32u
Online Course Design
Learning Management Systems
Synchronous versus Asynchronous versus Self-
directed
One-way versus Two-way communication
The tools of interaction in online environments
 Discussion Forums
 Wikis (collaborative building of pages)
 Email
 Peer-reviewed Reusable assignments
Success by Design
 Clean – uncluttered, no outdated information
 Clear – Exceptionally explicit instructions and options for
learner help
 Well organized for the level of learners
 Relevant – know your learners
 Current – keep information up to date
 Concise
 Actively facilitated
 Opportunities for formative feedback
 Accessible and Inclusive (Universal Design)
Biggest Challenge
McKay Savage, Flickr Creative Commons By License
Ed Tech
Hiroyuki Takeda, Flickr Creative Commons By License
Just a few…
www.padlet.com (you’ve seen Padlet in action)
Adobe Connect (we’re using it now). There are
some other similar software products available,
my favourite at the moment is AnyMeeting,
reasonably priced.
www.zaption.com Zaption allows you to interject
questions and narration for learners within videos,
kind of like a pause and reflect model.
Want to know more?
Teaching Philosophy
 You need a teaching philosophy, so write one!
Online Instruction: A good collection from
Ryerson University
 http://www.ryerson.ca/lt/elearning/resources.html
The importance of interaction
 https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-
beta/meaningful-interaction-online-courses
Slide link to this presentation
 http://www.slideshare.net/jennihayman1/march-4-
ppt-preso-ola

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April 1 ppt preso ola

  • 1. Providing Engaging Online Learning Experiences Through Design April 1, 2015 Jenni Hayman, M.Ed Digital Learning Design Consultant All content in this presentation is shared with a CC BY International 4.0 License
  • 2. Welcome & Introductions Please introduce yourself in the chat window Describe your role in library/librarian education and professional development Describe your experience teaching, either face- to-face or online
  • 3. Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this session you will:  Contribute to a wall of teaching philosophies  Give examples of online course design and learning activities  Manage your online teaching time more efficiently  List 3 tools that engage learners and help improve learning outcomes
  • 4. Teaching Philosophy Nathan Russell, Flickr Creative Commons By License
  • 6. Online Course Design Learning Management Systems Synchronous versus Asynchronous versus Self- directed One-way versus Two-way communication The tools of interaction in online environments  Discussion Forums  Wikis (collaborative building of pages)  Email  Peer-reviewed Reusable assignments
  • 7. Success by Design  Clean – uncluttered, no outdated information  Clear – Exceptionally explicit instructions and options for learner help  Well organized for the level of learners  Relevant – know your learners  Current – keep information up to date  Concise  Actively facilitated  Opportunities for formative feedback  Accessible and Inclusive (Universal Design)
  • 8.
  • 9. Biggest Challenge McKay Savage, Flickr Creative Commons By License
  • 10. Ed Tech Hiroyuki Takeda, Flickr Creative Commons By License
  • 11. Just a few… www.padlet.com (you’ve seen Padlet in action) Adobe Connect (we’re using it now). There are some other similar software products available, my favourite at the moment is AnyMeeting, reasonably priced. www.zaption.com Zaption allows you to interject questions and narration for learners within videos, kind of like a pause and reflect model.
  • 12. Want to know more? Teaching Philosophy  You need a teaching philosophy, so write one! Online Instruction: A good collection from Ryerson University  http://www.ryerson.ca/lt/elearning/resources.html The importance of interaction  https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed- beta/meaningful-interaction-online-courses Slide link to this presentation  http://www.slideshare.net/jennihayman1/march-4- ppt-preso-ola

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Welcome everyone, thank you for joining me today to talk about online teaching and learning. After 23 years in Canada, I have returned to the U.S. to take a role with Arizona State University, helping them to establish their first series of MOOCs (massive open online courses). My areas of research and focus are open pedagogy and the use of open educational resources in higher education. I have a great deal of experience supporting subject matter experts to build and deliver online courses and I look forward to talking with you about the role of design in online teaching and learning.
  2. Here is list of four learning outcomes for today’s session, hopefully you will achieve them all!
  3. What is your teaching philosophy? Have you ever thought it through, or thought about it out loud? Many people teach the way they were taught. If you were lucky to have student-centered teachers that empowered you, that’s a good thing. If you weren’t so lucky, it might be worth reflecting on how you practice teaching, and why you make the facilitation and delivery choices you make. There are several teaching philosophy examples and instruments you can use to reflect and articulate your philosophy. I’ll leave you with a list of resources at the end of this presentation.
  4. For now, I’d like to engage you in an activity designed like a brainstorm. The tool this activity uses is called Padlet, and you can find their general website at Padlet.com I’m going to place a link in the course chat window, if you can select it and open Padlet in a new tab or new browser window (so you don’t exit this Adobe Connect session) you may be able to double click and start typing some ideas for teaching philosophy right on to the window. It’s meant to be a fun exercise, so have some fun with it. While you’re doing that, I’m going to switch to my browser window so we can all see what’s happening. You can include ideas about what you like to do when teaching or facilitating, for example, “I like to lecture using PowerPoints” or “I love small discussion groups”
  5. Checking in… is the OLA working with a a learning management system as part of its education programs? Are any of you working in a learning management system to offer online courses? Examples, Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, Sakai, Desire2Learn?
  6. The elements you see on this slide are core elements of good learning design. No matter the learning management system, keeping these elements in mind will help you be more organized, and help learners find what they need in order to learn.
  7. The biggest challenge, and the most difficult to manage for online instructors is workload. There is a learning curve learning how to design an online course, there’s a learning curve learning how to deliver an online course. The first time you do this, it will be 10 times more work than you think. The second time you do it, only 5 times more work, and so on. Managing your workload as an online instructor means setting boundaries. Learners often believe they will have 24/7 access to you and that you will reply to their messages instantaneously. You must guard your time while remaining accessible. Delegate as much mentoring as possible to the learners themselves, encourage them to help each other, this helps them retain their learning much more effectively. Let them know that’s what you’re doing, and that you’re not just being lazy or ignoring their needs.
  8. If you are an educator, you are likely bombarded with offers from ed tech companies with solutions to your teaching and learning problems. Problems you didn’t even know you had. If you have a good sense of your learners, if you are an engaged and learner-centred teacher, and if you have access to a learning management system of some kind, you should be very successful in your online teaching practice. Good teaching is about establishing real and valuable mentoring relationships with learners, technology is often a convenience in communication, but motivated learners and engaging teaching are the real keys for success.
  9. My favourite technologies are those that engage learners and provide opportunities for interaction. These tools can help you build learning experiences that seek learner input and reduce one-way communication.