Creating a New Online Experience on ground by AJS

Creating a New Online Experience
On the Ground
An SBBC Faculty In-Service Event
Facilitator: A.J. Schuermann
Ventura Campus November 21, 2014

• Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• To complete an online testing assessment and engage in a
collaborative activity in the News Forum.
• To provide a general LMS
orientation for faculty who will
be assisting consortium
students.
• To better understand how to
provide student services on
site for consortium students.

• Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• Additionally, before we log
on, we’re going to review
familiar themes we have
discussed as four key
elements to 21st century
education…

• Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• …and define how these
familiar elements will now
guide us in creating a new
environment on the ground
for 21st century students
expecting to benefit from the
on-line experience…

• Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• “Creating a new online experience on the ground” means
discovering or inventing strategies to foster maximum
engagement, collaboration, technology and sustainability as
part of the consortium experience on our own campus.
• Engagement
• Collaboration
• Technology
• Sustainability

1. Engagement = our students are
psychologically invested in showing up
and participating in a learning experience

• Students will acquire relevant skills that are transferable to the
workplace by taking some of their classes on-line. This is a
“WIIFM” career-oriented gainful employment motivation.
• Students will acquire necessary skills and experience for a
successful venture in the future for their continued education.

• The Log Along concept is on-site human engagement and is a
direct response to stated student apprehensions, frustrations,
and dissatisfactions about on-line learning.
• On-Line learning is currently the best way to ensure the
development of self-directed learning skills, as well as relevant
technology skills and experience that cut across subject areas.

• The Log Along concept is the only guaranteed way to have more
than one subject regularly being discussed or studied in a
classroom (which is distinctly different than what is currently
understood to be a hybrid platform).
• On-Line learning is currently the best way to ensure the regular
development of writing skills across the curriculum.

• The Log Along concept is a new learning forum where students
can be empowered to help each other and/or help themselves in
a collaborative setting.

• The Log Along concept is currently preparing groundwork for
potential “synchronous” on-line experiences—the idea being that
scheduled events can occur where students collaboratively and
simultaneously experience their learning moments during
particularly scheduled time slots.

2. Collaboration = students working
together to accomplish a common goal.

• The Log Along concept should evolve to a point where students
attending the sessions are working together to help one other
accomplish scheduled course objectives across curriculums.
This would not represent a singular goal per evening, with
everyone working on one project together, but a common goal to
learn from each other and to teach others what they know.

• A sample update from a Log Along instructor helps to illustrate
the potential collaborative awareness people can develop within
the campus to increase our awareness and involvement, and to
encourage attendance and participation in the learning event for
the benefit of everyone….

• Names have been changed to protect the guilty and innocent...
Hi AJ –
Student A was not in the Log Along lab again this evening.
Student B was, however, and continued working on Assignment 4.1 Coding with Modifiers Practice,
Project Assignment 4 Coding Case Practice, posting her Weekly Summary response to her fellow
students' postings, and completing Quiz #4. We also spoke some about the Discussion Question
she needs to post for Chapter 5 which is usually done on Tuesdays. With the advent of Veteran's
Day I thought not possible to work on this tonight but Student B explained it will not be posted until
Monday and she will therefore post it then.
There were several other students who came in to use the lab including some from Instructor A's
class and one of the Aviation students. Student C was also in for quite a while and spoke to Student
B extensively. I checked with Student B to see if he was keeping her from doing her work and she
replied that Student C was actually helping her as he had taken MED-215 before with Instructor B.
Hope all is well in SB.
Talk to you soon,
Instructor C

• In the immediate sense, we should be creating an environment
where there is a public display of activities being posted on-site
on any given evening. It would be a bulletin board of sorts, to
reveal the number of individual and common tasks that need to
be accomplished in real time on site.

• In the future, we should expect more collaborative writing
activities to become prevalent in the virtual classroom, with the
exchange of information and communication in enhanced
formats beyond what we understand now to be the News Forum.
This could mean collaboration across campuses as well as
classes is in the near future.

• Assessing collaborative efforts will require a more sophisticated
rubric to be created. Such as…
• New Media and future approaches for the communication
and presentation of collaborative efforts.

• Presentation of a measurable participation function to
interpret and record the effect of group dynamics toward
individual and collective learning outcomes.

• Objective assessments of collaborative/cooperative learning
experiences and efforts sans direct contact between
members of a group on site under observation.

• Self-directed and Collaborative outcomes that provide
answers/solutions that best reflect the effort of the group as a
whole and the individual as a contributing part.

3. Technology = students and instructors
utilize new tools to support curriculum
objectives and assessments

• Interactive technology tools will enable students to acquire
and refine their analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Students will likely work individually and in teams to find,
process, and synthesize information they've found online.

• Subject matter literacies and knowledge-based
assessments will be done on-line in a standardized format,
with a common scaled measurement of student success.
• Adaptive testing assessments will be done on-line in a
profiled evaluation format.

• “Writing across the curriculum” will be accomplished via
email and messaging, until synchronous video
communication becomes the norm.
• Something like “wisdom of the crowd” will be a quantifiable
metric for course evaluations.

• Classroom management will be about setting tasks and
accomplishing them according to instructions within a time
frame.
• Classroom engagement will be about life between intervals
of electronic assessments and exchanges.

4. Sustainability = endurance of systems
and processes.

• Log Along should strive to have a sustainability that allows
students to benefit from on-line offerings on-site in the
company of peers and mentors.
and processes.

• Technology should help sustain strategies of engagement
and collaboration in our activities, provided the technology
will help target and affect student learning outcomes.
and processes.

Creating a New Online Experience on ground by AJS

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (20)

Similar to Creating a New Online Experience on ground by AJS

Similar to Creating a New Online Experience on ground by AJS (20)

Creating a New Online Experience on ground by AJS