This presentation discusses using technology to increase instructional immediacy and bridge the gap between faculty and students. It defines instructional immediacy as behaviors that increase psychological closeness between teachers and students, such as humor, addressing students by name, and sharing personal examples. Research shows that instructional immediacy improves student participation, motivation, and learning outcomes. The presentation then provides examples of online tools that can be used to increase immediacy, such as presentation, video, and mind mapping tools to facilitate interaction and active learning. It emphasizes creating a sense of community through tools like surveys, polls, and online publishing platforms.
Facilitating in and with the Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) Modelrolandv
Participants will explore how fully online facilitation assists learners in the construction of new
procedural and declarative knowledge.
Concepts discussed will include:
● Constructivism-informed Education Processes
● Reduction of transactional distance
● Collaborative processes
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This presentation highlights a college's decision-making process to piloting online portfolios to support student learning and assessment. It features PCCC's experiences after 18 months of an e-portfolio initiative from 3 perspectives: at the institutional level, for departmental requirements and at a course level.
Facilitating in and with the Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) Modelrolandv
Participants will explore how fully online facilitation assists learners in the construction of new
procedural and declarative knowledge.
Concepts discussed will include:
● Constructivism-informed Education Processes
● Reduction of transactional distance
● Collaborative processes
● Principles of PBL Online Facilitation (Savin-Baden, 2007)
Soft Launching An Institutional ePortfolio InitiativeKenneth Ronkowitz
This presentation highlights a college's decision-making process to piloting online portfolios to support student learning and assessment. It features PCCC's experiences after 18 months of an e-portfolio initiative from 3 perspectives: at the institutional level, for departmental requirements and at a course level.
A day-long workshop conducted with the faculty of Wheelock College on June 27, 2014
Companion website is located at
https://northeastern.digication.com/blened_learning_workshop
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ePortfolios empower students to emphasize individual strengths, therefore, allowing them to become key players in their own learning. Join the presenter as she discusses the development and implementation of ePortfolios.
Course Design for Blended Learning
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Blended learning offers many opportunities for liberal arts colleges to enhance the curriculum, but how can faculty maintain the essential values of liberal education in an educational context combining online and face-to-face interaction? This seminar will examine successful methods and processes for blended learning course design. Examples will include designing online courses from liberal arts values, flipping the classroom, and academic collaboration between campuses. Interactive exercises for course design will help participants leave with a process and next steps for developing blended learning experiences in their own courses.
Ways to consider using social networks available today for education purposes and with assessment approaches that can help you understand if your network is achieving your desired objectives.
This slide presentation explains the work created in virtual reality environments during a course conducted at Empire State College, SUNY. With the advent of open source islands, students were able to create virtual islands to meet their professional interests. The course design is highlighted and the students work itself is put forward in slides and in video links to the islands themselves.
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A day-long workshop conducted with the faculty of Wheelock College on June 27, 2014
Companion website is located at
https://northeastern.digication.com/blened_learning_workshop
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Highlights the work of Dr. Eileen O'Connor in virtual reality, particularly since the movement to open source environments, which has lowered the cost of entry for students. These slides were presented in a conference at SUNY Delhi in January 2015.
ePortfolios empower students to emphasize individual strengths, therefore, allowing them to become key players in their own learning. Join the presenter as she discusses the development and implementation of ePortfolios.
Course Design for Blended Learning
Dr. Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)
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Ways to consider using social networks available today for education purposes and with assessment approaches that can help you understand if your network is achieving your desired objectives.
This slide presentation explains the work created in virtual reality environments during a course conducted at Empire State College, SUNY. With the advent of open source islands, students were able to create virtual islands to meet their professional interests. The course design is highlighted and the students work itself is put forward in slides and in video links to the islands themselves.
FAPSC 2013 Annual Conference Presentation: Connecting with Online StudentsPatrick Ray
Practical discussion of methods for connecting with distance education students online. This powerpoint comes from my breakout session held at the 2013 FAPSC Conference in Miami, FL.
Presentation given for the National College Learning Center Association
In these unprecedented times, the face of higher education is rapidly changing, and our learning centers must adapt to find ways to help our students (the privileged and underprivileged) engage effectively with technology. The realities of how we support students and the services we offer them must adapt to the current shifts to online learning in their content courses. We must expand upon existing online services and/or develop new ones. We must also support/train our staff members to manage the new ways in which our learning centers must operate.
Learning centers professionals are going to have to think of ways to deliver services 100% online. We need to think about our staff (students and professionals) and how we train them as well as the ways in which we engage our students who might be struggling with the demands of shifting to new modes of learning. Join this evolving conversation in one or both webinars:
Part 1 - Identifying Immediate Needs - this week (3/20/2020)
How we can triage and respond in real time to a rapidly evolving change to our operations?
Part 2 - Planning for the Long-term - next week (3/27/2020)
How do we reflect, assess, resource for sustainability, and plan for future change?
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Instructional immediacy in the classroom fapsc presentation
1. Instructional Immediacy in the
Classroom: Using Technology to Bridge
the Gap between Faculty & Students
Presenter: Patrick G. Ray; Program
Associate Dean (Fortis Online)
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8. What is Instructional Immediacy?
• Albert Mehrabian (1971) – “Principle of immediacy“
– "people are drawn toward persons and things they
like, evaluate highly, and prefer; and they avoid or move away
from things they dislike, evaluate negatively, or do not prefer"
• Joan Gorham (1988) – expanded to include verbal
interaction that increased psychological closeness between
teachers and students
– Affective Learning = reaching the emotional & belief system
aspects of those who facilitate & participate in it.
• Examples: engaging in humor, asking questions, addressing
students by name, encouragement of discussion and
following up on student-initiated comments, encouraging
student expression of opinions, and sharing of personal
examples.
9. So…be nice?
• Instructor lack of awareness
• Instructor not applying immediate behaviors
• Karla Jensen (1999) - faculty could successfully learn to
use such after participating in an immediacy training
program. Faculty participating in such training
increased their use of verbal immediacy behaviors by
42 percent and, consequently, experienced a 59
percent increase in student participation in class
compared to those in the control group
10. “Community of Inquiry”
Rourke, Anderson, Garrison, and Archer (2001) – identify with the
community & develop relationships (social); facilitation for purpose of
realizing personally meaningful outcomes (teaching); & extent learners
are able to construct & confirm meaning through sustained discourse
(cognitive).
11. Chickering & Gamson’s Seven
Principles of Good Practice
1. Encourage contact between students and faculty: Frequent student-
faculty contact both in and outside of class is an important factor in
student motivation and involvement.
2. Develop reciprocity and cooperation among students: Faculty should
create and encourage opportunities for collaborative learning among
students.
3. Encourages active learning: Faculty should require students to apply
their learning in oral and written forms.
4. Give prompt feedback: Faculty should provide appropriate and prompt
feedback on performance. Students need help assessing their current
competence and performance, and need frequent opportunities to
perform and receive suggestion for improvement. Such feedback should
be an ongoing process in collegiate settings.
12. Seven Principles (cont.)
5. Emphasize time on task: Faculty should create opportunities for
students to practice good time management. This includes setting
realistic time for students to complete assignments as well as
using class time for learning opportunities.
6. Communicate high expectations: Faculty should set and
communicate high expectations for students. Such becomes a self-
fulfilling prophecy for students and they often will rise to meet the
challenge.
7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning: Faculty should
create learning opportunities that appeal to the different ways
students will process and attend to information. Varying
presentation style and assignment requirement will allow
students to showcase their unique talents and learn in ways that
work for them.
13. Effects of Instructional Immediacy in
Online Classrooms (Glenda Gunter; 2007)
• Analyzed four relationships in online courses:
1. Teacher-Student
2. Student-Student
3. Student-Content
4. Student-Computer
• Impetus – high dropout rates in online courses
• Most cited reason for student dissatisfaction: lack of
social presence (feeling of closeness &
community), feelings of isolation, lack of interaction
with instructor and other students.
14. Instructional Immediacy Online (Gunter; continued)
• “online students depend more on validation from
interaction from their professors because of the lack of
face-to-face interaction”
• “online interactions…synchronous or asynchronous,
can increase a student’s self-efficacy…*which+
positively affects motivation because it improves a
student’s belief in their ability to be successful”
• Positive correlation between immediacy & “increased
time on task, which also impacts cognitive outcomes”
27. Whiteboards/Screensharing Tools
• Join.me https://join.me/ (extremely simple, easy-to-
use screensharing tool)
• Twiddla http://www.twiddla.com (free; easy to use
collaboration tool; whiteboard or review websites; no
install)
• Vyew http://vyew.com (similar to DimDim, but
presentation-based; can share desktop as well)
• Oneeko http://www.oneeko.com/ (simple screen-
sharing; no d/l)
28. Bookmark Sharing Tools
• Delicious www.delicious.com
• Diigo www.diigo.com (like Delicious, but can also use
sticky notes; annotate pages)
• Speed Tile http://www.speedtile.net (visual-based
organizing/sharing tool)
• Digg www.digg.com (shared social bookmarking; more
“diggs” = more visibility)
29. Video: Online Repositories
• Youtube Education Channel
http://www.youtube.com/education
• Teachertube http://www.teachertube.com/ (like youtube
edu)
• TED http://www.ted.com/ (Technology; Entertainment;
Design – conference videos)
• Academic Earth http://academicearth.org (online
presentations from world’s top scholars)
• MIT Open Courses http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• Art Babble http://www.artbabble.org/ (like youtube for
artists)
• CassioPeia Project http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com (same
for science)
• Sixty Symbols http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ (physics &
astronomy videos)
30. Video/Screencasting Tools
• Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html (share
annotated screengrabs/video from desktop; free
version = 5 min max)
• Screencast-O-Matic http://www.screencast-o-
matic.com (free online screen recorder; no app to
install)
• Screenr http://www.screenr.com (no d/l to install;
online screencasting tool)
• SketchCast http://sketchcast.com/ (online sketch
sharing tool; w/ or w/o audio)
31. Video Sharing Tools
• DragON Tape http://www.dragontape.com (mix tapes
for Youtube; can string different videos together into
one presentation)
• Vimeo http://vimeo.com (online video sharing tool)
• Seesmic https://seesmic.com (quick, easy video-sharing
tool)
32. Blogging Tools
• Posterous Spaces https://posterous.com (easy-to-use;
email updates)
• Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com (another easy-to-use
blogging tool)
• AudioBoo http://audioboo.fm (audio-blogging site)
• Glogster http://www.glogster.com (online poster
“mash-up” tool; can use images, audio, video; edu
version as well; FLASHY!)
• Wallwisher http://www.wallwisher.com/ (another
online poster/corkboard tool; easy)
33. Math Instructional Tools
• Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org (online
math lessons; video)
• WolframAlpha http://www.wolframalpha.com
(computational knowledge engine)
• Wolfram MathWorld http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
• Mathway http://www.mathway.com/ (similar to
WolframAlpha)
• MathTV http://www.mathtv.com/videos_by_topic
(math videos)
• Tricki http://www.tricki.org (wiki devoted to math)
• Online Conversion http://www.onlineconversion.com/
(convert almost anything to anything else)
34. Creating a Sense of Community
• SurveyMonkey http://www.surveymonkey.com (free survey
tool; how am I doing?; what do you like?)
• Toluna http://us.toluna.com (create online poll; real-time
results)
• 43 Things http://www.43things.com (listing/sharing your life
goals/priorities)
• Book Glutton http://www.bookglutton.com (create an
online book club)
• Free Rice http://freerice.com (play trivia games & correct
answers = rice donated to United Nations World Food
Program)
• Gwap http://www.gwap.com (online games that improve
effectiveness of search engines)
• LetterPop http://letterpop.com/ (simple; easy to use
newsletter generator)
35. Online Publishing Tools
• Blog Booker www.blogbooker.com (turn your blogs into
a pdf “book” complete with images)
• Blurb http://www.blurb.com (make & sell e-books, as
well as physical books)
• Issuu http://issuu.com (free online digital publishing
tool)
• Storybird http://storybird.com (create online short
stories that others can share, read, or print)
36. Cloud-based Office Applications
• Google Docs https://docs.google.com (Google Office
Suite – word processor; presentation tool; spreadsheet
tool)
• Windows Live https://skydrive.live.com/ (create
Word, Powerpoint, Excel, One-Note docs – browser-
based; also – 25GB of online storage!)
• Think Free http://www.thinkfree.com (java-based
online office suite tool – MS Office 2003)
• Zoho http://www.zoho.com (cloud-based office suite;
lots of tools)
37. Thank you.
Patrick G. Ray; Program Associate Dean
Email: pray@fortiscollege.edu
Phone: (866) 353-9919