This document summarizes a workshop on using technology to enhance teaching and learning. The workshop is divided into three hours. The first hour explores the relationship between technology and adult learning. The second hour identifies specific technologies that can advance learning outcomes. The third hour has participants apply key technologies to their own course instruction. The workshop addresses characteristics of adult learners and principles for guiding the effective use of instructional technology.

1. Technology Enhanced Learning
T&L Through the Lens of Technology
Bob Andersen
January 23, 2016

2. Explore a variety of instructional
technologies to expand and
enhance their teaching repertoire.
Faculty will practice designing their
instruction through the lens of
technology to discover the strengths
technology brings to their students’
learning experiences.
• Explore the relationship between technology and adult learning
• Identify technologies that can advance course learning
• Apply key technologies to course instruction
Technology Enhanced Learning

3. Technology Enhanced Learning
Agenda
Hour 1: Explore the relationship between technology and adult learning
Hour 2: Identify technologies that can advance course learning
Hour 3: Apply key technologies to course instruction
Logistics
• Parking Lot for ideas and topics for follow-up
• Questions anytime

5. I’m too old to learn this
I agree with the Luddites
My students are tech savvy
"People don't
resist change.
They resist
being
changed!"
Peter Senge

6. You have learned
much harder things

7. Are you ready to
give it a try?

8. Edtech@smumn.edu

9. Instructional Technology in Context
Technology
Nano Technology
Robotics
Gene Therapy
Stem Cells
Drones
3D Printing
Mega Scale Desalination
Brain Organoids
MIT Breakthrough Technologies
Information Technology
Databases
Web Technology
Enterprise Resource Management
Customer Relationship Management
Sales Force Automation
Social Media
Health Information Management
Etc….
Instructional Technology
Learning Management (Bb)
Web 2.0
Presentation Software
Clickers
Video/Multimedia
Etc…

10. What Does Instructional Technology Do?
What functions does it provide?
• Teaching and Learning
• Instructor Productivity
• Promote Digital Literacy

11. There are only two questions we must be concerned
about with respect to instructional technology:
HowWhy

12. • Stimulate interaction: S-S,
S-I, S-C (Michael Moore)
• Interact with information in
different ways: watch, listen, touch,
move, write, curate, collect, create
• Reach diverse learning styles
• We “live in a blended world”
• “Technology can get students
teaching themselves and
communicating with the world
outside the classroom”
• Bring more content into the setting
• Reach learners in their busy lives
• Build students’ digital literacies
Why

13. Characteristics of Adults
• ‘Rich, busy, full lives’
• Commitments
• Managing stress
• Employed full time
• Working more than one
job?
• “Fused Lives”
“a few weeks long, and I’ll
work throughout it.”
“Nobody had any expectations —
not my team, my investors, or
my family — that I would be in
any way connected,” she said.
“I wanted to do it. It was not
an obligation. I was updating
this app in real time, showing
loved ones pictures of the
baby. Was that work or life?”
Marissa Meyers CEO of Yahoo
Adult Learners

14. Our Learners
Adults as Students Adult Learners Adult Online Learners
Voluntary participation Self-directed Separated from their
learning community
Established beliefs, values
and opinions
Seek education that
applies to their perceived
needs
Less institutional support
Bring significant
experience and knowledge
Seek solutions to where
they are compared to
where they want to be
Isolated
“Impatient” learners Perceived lack of feedback
from instructors

15. SMU Adult Learners
• Cultural diversity
• Gender
• Age
▫ Median age is 33 (without Ed.D)
▫ Average age is 35
▫ 52.5% are under 34
Millennial generation

16. Exercise: Constructing Guiding Principles for Instructional
Technology
• A useful takeaway of “critical success factors”
• Break into two groups
• Review what we have discussed so far
• Review the VoiceThreads
• Develop simple declarative statements about
instructional technology
▫ Record these in Google Docs

17. Bob’s Contribution to Guiding Principles
• Apply technology to support learning objectives
• Its not about the technology, its about the learning
• Keep it simple
• Provide ‘how-to’ support for the technology
▫ Good instructions
▫ Scaffolding
▫ Repetition
• Remember the WIIFM principle

18. Hour 2: Identify technologies that can advance course
learning
Technology as a Lens
http://www.mindgem.com/camera-lenses/
http://www.alexcoghe.com/tag/lumix/

19. Technology Lenses
• Instructional Technology Tools
▫ Blackboard
▫ Other SMU Tools
▫ Web 2.0
• Activities
• Immersion
• Models and Frameworks
• Content
• Social Media

20. There are only two questions we must be concerned
about with respect to instructional technology:
How
Ensure technologies are sequenced,
scaffolded and supported
Remember the characteristics of
adult learners when selecting
technologies
Consider the assumptions made
about the technology skills of our
learners
Consider the cognitive load
introduced by the tool. Any
extraneous cognitive load?
Has the instructional technology
application created a ‘shadow’
curriculum?
Consider classic information
technology adoption theories to
instructional technology practices
Intentionally linked to the learning
outcomes

21. Closing thoughts-hour two
• Students Today sentiments
• Questions?

22. Hour 3 - Apply key technologies to course instruction
• Chickering and Gamson exercise
• Backwards design and SLOs
• Deep dive with a particular tool
• Start on your ‘homework’
▫ Journal on personal digital literacy
▫ Review one tool today in the Tech Fellows wiki using the
WYSIWYG interface and adding multimedia in their reply
▫ Optional: Apply one new instructional tech method or tool in a
live course