The document discusses strategies for enhancing student engagement and success in blended learning environments through effective teaching presence. It emphasizes measuring engagement and success using qualitative and quantitative methods, while highlighting the advantages of personalized learning and the integration of technology to facilitate collaboration and interaction. Furthermore, it suggests that blended learning can revolutionize K-12 education by enabling a more tailored educational model that meets diverse student needs.

1. Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry in Blended Learning Environments "Demonstrating and discussing how teaching presence can be designed, facilitated, and directed in a blended learning environment in order to increase levels of student engagement and success."

2. Britt Gow @brittgow [email_address] Anne Mirtschin @murcha [email_address]

3. Student Engagement How do we measure engagement? Quantitatively by increased attendance Student opinion data Qualitatively by curiosity for more information Willingness to attend nighttime 'extra' classes Increased motivation, enthusiasm and involvement Increased focus on tasks

4. How do we measure success? Not just VCE scores, but connectedness to school Community involvement & social competencies. Pathways to tertiary study and employment Enjoyment of learning Student Success

6. eLearning Global Education Rural Education My Passions!

7. Meet my VCE accounting class... Renee

8. 3 virtual students (one over 2010, 2011!) 1 ESL student One student in unit 3 / 4 without unit 1 / 2 A mix of two levels of accounting – year 11 and 12

9. The timetable

10. Tools used…. School email

11. MOOC textbooks The students Learning network @ Email lists communities Learning Resources

12. The virtual classroom! Every student has a voice!

13. From the chat…. “ this is much better than school classes” (after a night time session) James M Sorry, I am on a very bad connection tonight, so it is very slow. Virtual student: i had to look at the L on my hand and got confused (in regard to debits and credits) Virtual student:  Virtual student: i remember that i just forgot which side was left and right i dont even know wat we r looking at?? i havent even started it :/

14. .......................more chat! dont confuse me this tinme i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit side i always get confused between debtors and creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??

16. ESL students Can you please tell me a summary of the chapter?

17. Visual Learning with Word Clouds http://www.wordle.net

18. I was googled! ‘” Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS for unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from previous years My classes are big and my teacher isnt that good withrevision so i was wondering. i was wondering if you know any VCE MATH METHODS and ENGLISH sites like this so i can email teachers if i dont undertand or want practise exams.”

19. My Teacher Blog for instructions, reflections and shared conversations

20. Monitoring Progress Check sheets Blogs Forums Comments on my blogs Google forms Photos, videos - slide share, voicethread, youtube, blackboard collaborate Chat in blackboard collaborate, Observing students working in blackboard collaborate via application sharing

21. Checking understanding

24. Benefits Recordings Save chat, whiteboards etc Interactivity Emoticons Every student has a voice

25. Engagement Interactive Students are happy to login from home at night from home when sick or unable to attend school Group or individual Breakout rooms Recording factor Application sharing Chat

26. Monitoring and reporting progress (This is the hard one) – capturing data that analyzes learning beyond the regular data Tools – blogs, wallwisher Setup online surveys – google form Comments back on blog posts Facebook updates Dropbox interviewing students

27. Challenges Learning Mobile phone service Digital objects for accounting Risk taking – ahead of red tape, but that follows Language barriers/time zones Timetables Budgets The 10-20% play factor Timetables Different schools’ accessibility/infrastructure Rethinking school as it exists

28. Blended Learning - Britt Technoscience and Technomaths Blogs Connect with Experts Communicate with colleagues Global Projects - Online Science Fair, International Energy Challenge, Potato Olympics, Paper Airplane Project Ballarat University Virtual Teaching Program VCE Environmental Science

30. How did my online classes start? Enquiries from students who did a Google search Comments on my VCE Env Sci blog and Ning Requests from the Victorian Association of Environmental Education Not available as a Distance Learning subject due to practical component Video practical experiments Invite other schools to participate

32. VCE Environmental Science - Britt Eight students from four different schools Blackboard Collaborate for 90 minutes each week Skype & telephone Blog, Email and Facebook Face-to-face excursions and study camp In 2012, ten students and three first-time teachers with their classes Ultranet and PolyCom

34. My experience.... Each student is unique and has different preferences and ways of learning Need to offer a variety of tasks: Questions, polls and voting Reading, writing, listening Images, text, audio and video Web tours and application sharing Drawing, cutting & pasting images Completing tables of data

36. Mathletics as Blended Learning Online maths activities, including avatars, games, teacher-assigned activities, help button, assessments, tutorials, rewards, competitions and tracking. Can access from school and home. Compliments face-to-face instruction

37. We use Skype and Blackboard Collaborate to connect with our Scientist in Schools partner, Melissa Toifl, from CSIRO Land and Water Technologies, in Highett and Clayton.

38. Connecting with experts in the field increases motivation and engagement by allowing students to ask questions and actively participate in presentations.

39. Student success increased by... Real choices (subject choices, ways of learning and ways of demonstrating understanding & application of concepts) Students can work at their own pace Trust that students are willing to learn Access to tools and support Making expectations clear

40. A Learning Revolution? " Blended learning has the potential to revolutionize K–12 education in terms of quality and cost, as it allows for a fundamental redesign of the educational model around the following:" "A more consistent and personalized pedagogy that allows each student to work at her own pace and helps each child feel and be successful at school."

41. "Productive new school models that require fewer, more specialized teachers and use space more efficiently." "....... Teachers shifting to blended-learning models are finding that they have more time to focus on high-value activities like critical thinking, writing, and project based learning as they spend less time on low-value, manual tasks.....(while still).................creating a strong, supportive culture that promotes rigor and high expectations for all students, as well as providing healthy, supportive relationships and mentorship."

42. References http://www.innosightinstitute.org/media-room/publications/education-publications/the-rise-of-k-12-blended-learning/