This document provides an overview and guidance for getting started with transforming a course from face-to-face to blended or online format. It begins with introductions and then discusses key concepts like the definitions of blended, flipped, online, and tech-enhanced courses. It also examines considerations for redesigning elements like content, interactivity, and assessment when transitioning a course to a new format. The document provides steps and questions to help instructors redesign their course, including choosing a pedagogical model, designing effective learning modules, and planning assessments. The overall document aims to help instructors successfully transition their course to digital and blended learning formats.
2. Introductions
• What do you hope to accomplish?
• How will you know if you accomplished it?
• What is your biggest concern in accomplishing
your goal?
5. Step 1: What is…?
What is blended or hybrid?
How is it different from face-to-face?
What are the similarities and differences with
flipped?
What is online?
What is tech-enhanced?
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7. A scholarly definition
At the 2005 Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning, the
following was adopted by the participants and will serve
as the accepted definition of blended learning for this
paper:
1. Courses that integrate online with traditional face-to-
face class activities in a planned, pedagogically valuable
manner; and
2. Where a portion (institutionally defined) of face-to-
face time is replaced by online activity [2]. (Picciano,
2006, p. 97).
11. Web-enhanced
0 - 20%
Blended
21 - 99%
Online
100%
Blended 1
21 - 50%
Online with
commensurate
reduction
in seat time
Blended 3
81 - 99%
Online with
commensurate
reduction
in seat time
Blended 2
51 - 80%
Online with
commensurate
reduction
in seat time
An institutional definition
12. Redefining your course
• F2F Online
• Low tech High tech
• Active Passive learning
• Integration Separation
14. Step 2: How is it different?
What considerations do you have when
transforming your course to tech-enhanced,
blended, online, or ?
Specifically, What elements of your course
design and your delivery will potentially
change?
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19. The 10 questions
Review the 10 questions, SNC15.wikispaces.com
Consider which question you find most
important, intriguing, problematic, or surprising?
Pair with a partner, share which question you
identified and your response in considering the
question in your own course design.
Share with rest of us one highlight from your
discussion
20. • Ten questions
• Designing learning modules
• Online vs. F2F - Integration
• Decision rubric for
content choices
• Learning objects
Content
• Progressive/summative
• Before, during, and after
• Self evaluation
• Peer evaluation
• Student evaluation
Course Evaluation
• Rubrics
• CATs
• Templates
• Traditional formats
Assessment
• Synchronous/asynchronous
• Establishing voice
• Discussion forums
• Small groups
Interactivity
• Managing expectations
• Time management
• Technology support
Helping Your Students
• Staying organized
• Managing workload
• Avoiding course and a half
Course Management
Course Redesign
Transitioning to
digital learning
Considerations
21. Step 3: How to make it
Thinking of content, interactivity, and
assessment, what will you new course look
like?
What do you have to do to transform your
course for effective digital learning? What is
your redesign plan?
Institutions need to find appropriate definitions of blended (and online) that facilitate the nature of the organization culture in order to facilitate acceptance of this innovative pedagogical model, assure consistent data collection and communicate effective with faculty/students. Additionally, traditional definitions of blended need to be re-visited since the emergence of new pedagogies and emerging technologies create paradigm shifts.
Allen, Seamen, and Garrett (2007) define blended courses and programs as having between 30 percent and 79 percent of the course content delivered online.
Institutions need to find appropriate definitions of blended (and online) that facilitate the nature of the organization culture in order to facilitate acceptance of this innovative pedagogical model, assure consistent data collection and communicate effective with faculty/students. Additionally, traditional definitions of blended need to be re-visited since the emergence of new pedagogies and emerging technologies create paradigm shifts.
Active learning, student-center
Engaged learning
Research driven effective practices
NICOLE
For each delivery mode, there are pedagogical considerations to be made with regard to content delivery, interactivity, and assessment.
The UWMLTC faculty development program and pedagogical consultations with our team guide instructors in making decisions about these considerations.
Content
Yes - text+images, current, video clips (under 10 minutes)
Avoid video lectures, don’t spend to much time on audio lectures either
Interactivity
Create opportunities for participation, community, collaboration, and connectedness through online class discussions, group discusionss, team projects, team synchronous meetings
Assessment
Frequent low-stakes feedback, opportunity to fail, make corrections to learning
Avoid catastrophic assessment
Provide audio feedback, if appropriate
Provide varied forms of assessments from cognitive, behaviors, affective domains
Text plus images (Mean study)
Rich, current (Web clips, videos, see Ginkgotree study)
Social presence, group activities, thought-provoking discussion boards, interactive
Introductions and Icebreakers
Support and Sharing Scholarship
Discussions
Group Projects
Feedback
Frequent and low stakes
Avoid Catastrophic Assessment
Valid assessments
http://assessment.uconn.edu/primer/taxonomies1.html
Tie into what talk about with Content, Interactivity, and Assessment. Are faculty development program teaches faculty to design and delivery courses based on our definition of what a good blended or online course is around Content, Interactivity, and Assessment. In addition to that, we help them with course administration issues by addressing how they can support their students, manage their time and course, evaluating their course.
This diagram reviews on a single screen all of the program features that have been described above. It is scarcely comprehensive, however, as we offer the program we discover changes and additions that are required. An example that provides case in point is the development of alternative modes of blended learning that focus on large enrollment courses. This has been a recent area of examination for which we have now produced a special module.
Institutions need to find appropriate definitions of blended (and online) that facilitate the nature of the organization culture in order to facilitate acceptance of this innovative pedagogical model, assure consistent data collection and communicate effective with faculty/students. Additionally, traditional definitions of blended need to be re-visited since the emergence of new pedagogies and emerging technologies create paradigm shifts.
Active learning, student-center
Engaged learning
Research driven effective practices
NICOLE
For each delivery mode, there are pedagogical considerations to be made with regard to content delivery, interactivity, and assessment.
The UWMLTC faculty development program and pedagogical consultations with our team guide instructors in making decisions about these considerations.
Content
Yes - text+images, current, video clips (under 10 minutes)
Avoid video lectures, don’t spend to much time on audio lectures either
Interactivity
Create opportunities for participation, community, collaboration, and connectedness through online class discussions, group discusionss, team projects, team synchronous meetings
Assessment
Frequent low-stakes feedback, opportunity to fail, make corrections to learning
Avoid catastrophic assessment
Provide audio feedback, if appropriate
Provide varied forms of assessments from cognitive, behaviors, affective domains
Backwards Design overview:
Introduced by Wiggins and McTighe in Understanding by Design (2005)
Instructors begin with learning goals and outcomes rather than content or activities
Effective in online and blended courses because provides more structure and facilitates course design, which we know impacts teaching and learning in the classroom
Key questions in Backward Design:
What do you want your students to do (not just know)?
What evidence will you accept that they have accomplished that?
What learning activities will produce this evidence or documentation?
Why Use Backwards Design:
Practice-oriented instead of abstract theory
Learning objectives linked to verifiable outcomes
Fosters an online peer learning community
Identify Desired Results (DO):
Be able to analyze and critique decision making processes
Acceptable Evidence:
Accurate written application of theory from the content given a decision making situation in determining what was effective and what was ineffective in the decision making process.
Learning Experience:
Students view video clips from Apollo 13
Students post analysis that integrates concepts from reading and lecture
Identify Desired Results (DO):
Be able to analyze and critique decision making processes
Acceptable Evidence:
Accurate written application of theory from the content given a decision making situation in determining what was effective and what was ineffective in the decision making process.
Learning Experience:
Students view video clips from Apollo 13
Students post analysis that integrates concepts from reading and lecture
Frequent and low stakes
Avoid Catastrophic Assessment
Valid assessments
http://assessment.uconn.edu/primer/taxonomies1.html
Identify Desired Results (DO):
Be able to analyze and critique decision making processes
Acceptable Evidence:
Accurate written application of theory from the content given a decision making situation in determining what was effective and what was ineffective in the decision making process.
Learning Experience:
Students view video clips from Apollo 13
Students post analysis that integrates concepts from reading and lecture
Identify Desired Results (DO):
Be able to analyze and critique decision making processes
Acceptable Evidence:
Accurate written application of theory from the content given a decision making situation in determining what was effective and what was ineffective in the decision making process.
Learning Experience:
Students view video clips from Apollo 13
Students post analysis that integrates concepts from reading and lecture
Student interaction with content
Rich and current content
Building cooperation and opportunities for feedback
Student interaction with other students
Student interaction with instructor
Social presence, group activities, thought-provoking discussion boards, interactive
Introductions and Icebreakers
Support and Sharing Scholarship
Discussions
Group Projects
Feedback
What is one thing that helped?
What is one question you still have?
What is one potential crisis point?