MEAS Course on E-learning: 1 Intro and overview on online learning, blended l...Andrea Bohn
MEAS was asked to provide a presenter for the Sasakawa Fund for African Extension (SAFE) Technical Workshop in Porto Novo, Benin. The meeting was a combination of university reports on extension education initiative, elearning training and training on creating gender friendly initiatives. There were 50 participants. A total of 26 participants were from universities.The material prepared for this training can be downloaded further below (or click on numbered items - file will download automatically).
The e-learning workshop training occurred on the last two days of the conference. The e-learning workshop goals for the participants included:
Understand the differences and opportunities to use online learning, blended learning and web enhanced learning
Understand the differences in asynchronous and synchronous delivery
Understand effective teaching practices for online learning especially in formal environments
Understand open education resources (OER), where to find them, how to create them and encouraging creation of student OERs
Find free and open source tools
Upload a lecture, notes, assignments and finding other appropriate tools for interaction
The participants received four Power point files, entitled
Introduction and Overview: Online Learning, Blended Learning and Open Educational Resources
Designing Online Instruction Based on Student Needs
Effective Online Teaching Strategies
The Online Environment Within the University and Openly Available
Planning for Scalable Operations and Costs of E-Learning
The Christopher Stevens Youth Network/CE2.0 –iEARN Jordan Workshop
February 23rd, 2013
iEARN-Jordan conducted a training workshop on February 23rd, 2013 as part of the Christopher Stevens Youth Network: Global Connections 2.0. Fifteen educators from Jordan, Kuwait and the USA participated in the workshop. Ms. Khitam Al-Utaibi, iEARN-Jordan Representative delivered the training on two parts. The first part of the workshop was about learning what is iEARN and take a tour in some of the 300 online projects. After teachers were introduced to iEARN, they had hands on training on some of the essential aspects in Project-Based Learning as well as engaging teachers in some activities related to building skills in grouping strategies, debate strategies and tuning protocols in projects. iEARN International celebrates this year its 25th Anniversary and iEARN-Jordan celebrated this occasion with all participants in the presence of all attendees with a cake that has the logos of the US Department of State, iEARN-Jordan, GCE and the iEARN International logo for the 25th Anniversary.
OERs to promote good practice in school - DeFT regional conference 2 October ...DEFToer3
This presentation was delivered by Michael Payton-Greene at the Digital Futures in Teacher Education regional conference (2 October 2012, Sheffield United Football Ground). For more information about the project, see www.digitalfutures.org
Addressing and Implementing Effective Methods for Online Teaching and TrainingAllison Selby
http://alliselby.edublogs.org/
Presenting different methodologies we use for addressing and implementing effective methods for online teaching and training. Our goal is really to create significant learning experiences for our students and we want to keep them engaged in learning the material. We want to create a high energy environment for learning in the course room and allow our students to consider how these concepts that we are presenting to them in the course can be applied to their professional and personal environments. The Web 2.0 tools encourages to students to share information and knowledge within the course. This builds community, team skills, peer interactions. As students become validated by their peers and share knowledge and information, it increases their self-concept. Web 2.0 content generated by our students and faculty include welcome videos, project and feedback assessment, demonstrations, and student presentations for both end of term projects and client presentations.
Presented at Sloan International Conference, Orlando, FL., 2013
Competency-based Learning through Online InternshipsAllison Selby
This presentation discusses the emergence of online internships, which are a perfect venue for competency-based online learning! Competency-based online learning is synergistic to experiential and high-impact internship learning classrooms. The U.S. Department of Education (2013) has recently been revaluating seat time measurement in exchange for more 21st Century approaches such as competency-based models, which include by their definition, project and community-based and customized learning opportunities, all of which are ALSO the hallmarks of experiential internships in the online learning environment. At the top of most university’s lists, that have distance education offerings, are increasingly to begin incorporating internships that provides students opportunities for high-impact experiential learning through hands-on working in cooperation with diverse organizations. This presentation discusses these opportunities as achievable in the online learning classroom. Additionally, with the high priority of the department of education, and higher educational institutions all seeking to expand competency-based learning opportunities, this presentation discusses the synergy of achieving both of these high priority goals with the online internship based on an experiential-competency model.
Presentation to Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor with acknowledgement to Helen Beetham, Grainne Conole, Peter Goodyear, Robert Eliis - thank you
MEAS Course on E-learning: 1 Intro and overview on online learning, blended l...Andrea Bohn
MEAS was asked to provide a presenter for the Sasakawa Fund for African Extension (SAFE) Technical Workshop in Porto Novo, Benin. The meeting was a combination of university reports on extension education initiative, elearning training and training on creating gender friendly initiatives. There were 50 participants. A total of 26 participants were from universities.The material prepared for this training can be downloaded further below (or click on numbered items - file will download automatically).
The e-learning workshop training occurred on the last two days of the conference. The e-learning workshop goals for the participants included:
Understand the differences and opportunities to use online learning, blended learning and web enhanced learning
Understand the differences in asynchronous and synchronous delivery
Understand effective teaching practices for online learning especially in formal environments
Understand open education resources (OER), where to find them, how to create them and encouraging creation of student OERs
Find free and open source tools
Upload a lecture, notes, assignments and finding other appropriate tools for interaction
The participants received four Power point files, entitled
Introduction and Overview: Online Learning, Blended Learning and Open Educational Resources
Designing Online Instruction Based on Student Needs
Effective Online Teaching Strategies
The Online Environment Within the University and Openly Available
Planning for Scalable Operations and Costs of E-Learning
The Christopher Stevens Youth Network/CE2.0 –iEARN Jordan Workshop
February 23rd, 2013
iEARN-Jordan conducted a training workshop on February 23rd, 2013 as part of the Christopher Stevens Youth Network: Global Connections 2.0. Fifteen educators from Jordan, Kuwait and the USA participated in the workshop. Ms. Khitam Al-Utaibi, iEARN-Jordan Representative delivered the training on two parts. The first part of the workshop was about learning what is iEARN and take a tour in some of the 300 online projects. After teachers were introduced to iEARN, they had hands on training on some of the essential aspects in Project-Based Learning as well as engaging teachers in some activities related to building skills in grouping strategies, debate strategies and tuning protocols in projects. iEARN International celebrates this year its 25th Anniversary and iEARN-Jordan celebrated this occasion with all participants in the presence of all attendees with a cake that has the logos of the US Department of State, iEARN-Jordan, GCE and the iEARN International logo for the 25th Anniversary.
OERs to promote good practice in school - DeFT regional conference 2 October ...DEFToer3
This presentation was delivered by Michael Payton-Greene at the Digital Futures in Teacher Education regional conference (2 October 2012, Sheffield United Football Ground). For more information about the project, see www.digitalfutures.org
Addressing and Implementing Effective Methods for Online Teaching and TrainingAllison Selby
http://alliselby.edublogs.org/
Presenting different methodologies we use for addressing and implementing effective methods for online teaching and training. Our goal is really to create significant learning experiences for our students and we want to keep them engaged in learning the material. We want to create a high energy environment for learning in the course room and allow our students to consider how these concepts that we are presenting to them in the course can be applied to their professional and personal environments. The Web 2.0 tools encourages to students to share information and knowledge within the course. This builds community, team skills, peer interactions. As students become validated by their peers and share knowledge and information, it increases their self-concept. Web 2.0 content generated by our students and faculty include welcome videos, project and feedback assessment, demonstrations, and student presentations for both end of term projects and client presentations.
Presented at Sloan International Conference, Orlando, FL., 2013
Competency-based Learning through Online InternshipsAllison Selby
This presentation discusses the emergence of online internships, which are a perfect venue for competency-based online learning! Competency-based online learning is synergistic to experiential and high-impact internship learning classrooms. The U.S. Department of Education (2013) has recently been revaluating seat time measurement in exchange for more 21st Century approaches such as competency-based models, which include by their definition, project and community-based and customized learning opportunities, all of which are ALSO the hallmarks of experiential internships in the online learning environment. At the top of most university’s lists, that have distance education offerings, are increasingly to begin incorporating internships that provides students opportunities for high-impact experiential learning through hands-on working in cooperation with diverse organizations. This presentation discusses these opportunities as achievable in the online learning classroom. Additionally, with the high priority of the department of education, and higher educational institutions all seeking to expand competency-based learning opportunities, this presentation discusses the synergy of achieving both of these high priority goals with the online internship based on an experiential-competency model.
Presentation to Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor with acknowledgement to Helen Beetham, Grainne Conole, Peter Goodyear, Robert Eliis - thank you
Ongoing integration of digital communications into online coursesEileen O'Connor
This presentation explains how one instructor developed an approach to the ongoing integration of digital communications within online courses – using a cycle of testing, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. Examples are shown from YouTube, wikis, badging, and virtual reality. Questions are posed for instructors considering such tools in their courses. A list of the author’s publications are included.
This is a power point used for the presentation at The Global Educational Conference 2011. In this presentation, I share my experiences and insight on doing action research projects that can promote global connection, global collaboration, as well as cross cultural understanding.
From the March 14, 2013 (represented March 28, 2013) webinar with Kiala Givehand, professor at Mills College and Diablo Valley College, designed to share practical (and proven) strategies for helping your online students interact with each other in authentic collaboration. Learn innovative ways to harness technology and use it to help students build academic relationships that empower their learning process. By the end of the presentation, you will have a plethora of ideas and tools to foster online student collaboration.
Topics covered include: Free resources designed to support online collaboration; Strategies for getting students to show up and interact; Tips for fostering realistic and helpful student partnerships; Information on how a new technology solution from Cengage Learning-MindTap-can also assist with effectively fostering online student collaboration and more.
Student perception of collaborative small group projects using synchronous an...David Wicks
This session will report on findings from a three-year study that explored how different communication tools may impact small group collaborative learning projects in an online course. The primary goal of this session is to share successful techniques for organizing and facilitating small group collaborative projects in online and blended courses.
21st Century Perspective on Teaching in Higher Education Eileen O'Connor
This presentation was delivered to faculty in higher education to emphasize ways to incorporate collaboration, integration of technologies, and more global approaches to teaching - both online and face to face.
Building a Hybrid Learning Environment - Augmenting the Classroom with Conver...Atul Pant
How can teachers create a hybrid learning environment to augment their classroom teaching with online conversation and collaboration. This presentation, which I made at Allahabad University in Oct 2012, looks at the reasons why a hybrid approach is much needed and gives an overview of mostly free tools that can be used to create such a learning experience.
Digital Extensions of Another Kind (Kathryn Ricketts)
On line and on-site - two sides of a mirror
1. A Teaching Enhancement Program for
Internationally Educated Academics
Loretta Teng, Ph.D. Rosalie Pedersen M.Ed.
University of Calgary
COHERE Conference
2. Background of the program
Program development
Design & delivery
Program evaluation
Outcomes
Conclusion
Implications
Limitation
3. Funded by a grant
Audience
Objectives
Teaching certificate vs.. a letter of completion
Program development
Blended-Fall 2011
Addressing the concerns of the IEAs
A cross-cultural learning community
4. Survey the needs of IEAs
New comers (40%)
Little experience in teaching in Canada (70%)
Desired areas for training
▪ Practical teaching skills (50%)
▪ An awareness of the Canadian culture (30%)
Wanted to receive teaching enhancement training
from TLC (56%)
▪ Various preferences of time of the day, weeks and
academic year
9. 21 Participants
2
1
9 Faculty
Exchange scholar
Grad students
9 Post-docs
10. Forum entries Online forum entries
• Interactive reflection
• Social forums Online
• Online Q & A
Weekly evaluation
• Written responses to
open-ended questions F2F
Evaluation forms
11. Reflection on
Forming a learning Acquiring new
cross-cultural community concepts and skills
teaching
Overcoming
barriers in Mirroring
facilitation
cultural transitions
12. Facilitation of active learning
Cultural adjustment in teaching
Requests for Learning accommodation
13. Acquisition of instructional skills
Individual reflection & collaborative
construction of meaningful application
Confidence in communication
Enriched length and content of online posts &
conversation in class
Application of skills
Action plan of active learning facilitation &
cultural adaptation
14. Communication patterns
• Advice giving – feedback provision
• Language barriers-organized
notes
• Risk-taking: Practicing new ways of
communication
15. • Cultural • Self-acceptance
comparisons • Development of
• Guided new self-identity
inquires
Reflection Emancipation
Revelation Integration
• Application • Home & Canadian
• Enjoyment practices
• Celebration
16. Creative
Skilled facilitation Online network
assignments
• Multiple • Structured • Interactions
facilitators • Facilitated with Canadian
• Sensitivity & colleagues and
knowledge in students
cross-cultural • Observations of
communication Canadian
classes