My presentation to LT 8400 - Advanced Authoring Techniques 1/25/2017

1. NAVIGATING OER
ADOPTION
DESIGN & EVALUATION
CassandraGaul
GaDOE
InstructionalTechnology Designer / Content Developer

2. A little more about me….
■ English / LanguageArtsTeacher – 6 years
■ Online teacher – 2 years
■ GSU Masters
■ Worst Internship Ever
■ Current projects

3. Background ■ Need: #GoOpen initiative at DoE, lack
of resources, cost savings
■ Instructional Goal: Project managers
and curriculum specialists will be able to
guide teachers through a process of
adopting digital textbooks and
materials.
■ Learner Characteristics:
– Basic Knowledge of OER andCC
– Range of technical skills
– Motivated to help teachers and
schools, to learn, to succeed
■ Scenario-Based

4. Why scenario-based?
■ Presents a hypothetical narrative
■ Possible future environment
■ Safe and non-threatening with
support
■ Encouraged

5. Design:
Get buy in
■ Introduction
– Orients learner to the course
structure and navigation
– Establishes need
■ Voicemail Questions
– Activates prior knowledge
– Builds background knowledge
■ Teacher Conversation

6. Design:
Support variety of learners
OER COACH
■ Direct instruction
■ Just in time
Additional external links
in “Resources”

7. Direct Questions Teacher Responses Summative Feedback
Design:
Assessment and feedback

8. Design:
Clear objectives,
deliverables,
and what it won’t do
Objectives
Concept Sketch

9. Design:
Storyboarding
dialogues, matching
content, creating and
tracking variables
Scripting
Dialogue
Conditions for
states based on
whether
variables were
TRUE or FALSE
Color-coded objectives, feedback,
resources, and teacher questions

10. Formative Evaluation
■ One-on-one
– During development, informal, coworkers
■ Small group
– 3 special education program managers
– Similar learning characteristics
– Procedure
■ Face-to-face
■ 1 hour
■ Pretest, observed trial, posttest,
discussion
■ FieldTest
– 3 GeorgiaVirtual School Developers and
Creative Commons Slack Channel
– Subject-matter and design expertise
– Procedure
■ Virtually distributed Google Form

11. DEMO

12. Development
Challenges
■ Making teacher questions
authentic
■ Addressing learning
needs
■ Making Storyline do what
I wanted
Successes
■ Templates = saves time
■ States = visual
■ Variables = customize
feedback

13. Lessons
Learned
■ Try really, really hard to find a subject
matter expert and find a sponsor
■ Plan one-on-one formative assessment
earlier than you think is necessary
■ Don’t underestimate how much people
enjoy getting questions correct
■ Err on the side of too much direction

14. Formative Evaluation
■ One-on-one
– During development, informal, coworkers
■ Small group
– 3 special education program managers
– Similar learning characteristics
– Procedure
■ Face-to-face
■ 1 hour
■ Pretest, observed trial, posttest,
discussion
■ FieldTest
– 3 GeorgiaVirtual School Developers and
Creative Commons Slack Channel
– Subject-matter and design expertise
– Procedure
■ Virtually distributed Google Form

15. Results and Recommendations
Results Recommended change
Needs more direction
for clarity and to help
navigation through
the course
Add directions that question
feedback to direct learners to
specific buttons that lead to the
next sections of the course.
Both groups found
the toolbar operation
frustrating and
confusing.
Modify operation of OERCoach
toolbar so that clicking on a new
tab causes any open windows to
close automatically.
Participants really
wanted to learn
Modify questions to give more
chances to apply information and
retake questions.

16. QUESTIONS?
cjgaul@gmail.com
Ask me anything.