This document discusses strategies for teaching large courses and engaging students. It introduces approaches like using social media and collaborative technologies to help students feel connected. Some specific strategies mentioned are setting up groups for in-class activities on tools like Twitter and Google Moderator and using wikis and social bookmarking for collaborative notes and content outlines. Real-time student response systems and quizzes are suggested for collecting feedback. The challenges of managing discussions and grouping students are addressed.

1. Aisha Jackson
Amanda McAndrew
Jacie Moriyama
Viktoriya Oliynyk

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA

3. • Explore challenges of teaching large courses
• Consider some ways to help students feel
empowered and engaged in a large class
• Introduce some instructional approaches and
technologies to address challenges

4. http://bit.ly/largecourses

5. Student Participation

6. Moderating Discussions
http://bit.ly/SLOAN-C

7. #blend12

8. Discussion Forums

9. Student Response Systems

10. Challenge
• Moving beyond the one
to many distribution of
content
Strategies
• Engage students
by letting them
contribute to the content
• Create opportunities for
students to
collaborate

11. • Students can feel connected and take
ownership of content
• Easy to create groups
• "Like" features
• Commenting features
• Example:
• Join our group
http://groups.diigo.com/group/lg_course_project

12. • Class notes
• Review of materials
• Content outlines
Example: http://briancroxall.pbworks.com/w/page/8178875/Wiki-Class-Notes

13. http://www.piazza.com
• Students and Instructors
– Can respond
– Ask follow-up questions
– Rate as good question and as good answer
– Tag questions and answers

14. • Social
Bookmarking
– www.diigo.com
– www.delicious.com
• Social Networks
- www.facebook.com
- Google +
• Wikis
– www.pbwiki.com
– www.wikispaces.com
– Google Docs
Needs attention

15. – Assign groups for in class activities
• Think pair share
• Small group discussions/case studies
• Groups post responses or outcomes to twitter,
google moderator, LMS tools

16. • Preparation
• Outline equal roles
• Collaborative resources
• If groups are presenting to the class, give the
rest of the class something to do.
- Peer review, summaries, develop exam questions

17. • Groups tool in LMS
- Discussions
• Groups can summarize the weeks discussion
- Locker
• GRumbler
- http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/msparrow/GRumble
r--main.html

18. Challenge
• Collecting and
processing data is time-
consuming
• Delay between learning
activity and feedback
Strategies
• Simplify data collection
processes
• Provide real-time
feedback to students

19. • Collect student responses within seconds
• Display results immediately
• Collect assessment data to analyze at any
point during the semester
• Administer in-class quizzes

20. • Quizzes and Self-
Assessments
• Rubrics
• Text matching tools
• Feedback feature (audio
feedback!)
• Text matching
http://turnitin.com
Audio Feedback
• Grades
www.classmategrading.co
m
• Quizzes
www.proprofs.com
www.equizzer.com
• Rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org

22. • Use the Grade book feature
• Calendar
• Announcements
• Checklist tool for creating directions

23. • Create discussion forums in the LMS
• General class questions
– Due dates
– Requirements
• Water cooler
– Off topic discussions

27. Google Site URL HERE
Amanda.Mcandrew@Colorado.edu
Aisha.Jackson@Colorado.edu
Jacie.Moriyama@Colorado.edu

28. Viktoriya
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA
• http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=a6d55&t=a6d55.40&f=a6d55.4f41
0c
• http://twitter.com
• http://twitterfall.com/
Amanda
• http://groups.diigo.com/group/lg_course_project
• http://briancroxall.pbworks.com/w/page/8178875/Wiki-Class-Notes
• http://www.piazza.com
• http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/msparrow/GRumbler--main.html