Hill slides lms 20160531 This workshop will present an overview of online/hybrid best practices that can promote successful learning experiences, including planning and management, teaching techniques, and assessing and evaluating students.

1. What Works and What Doesn’t in Online/
Hybrid Teaching
Presented at Loyola Marymount University
May 31, 2016
Presented by: Phil Hill
@PhilOnEdTech

2. SlideShare
http://bit.ly/lmuhill16

3. Moving Past Hype & Anti-
Hype:
Entering new world of
online & blended learning

5. “We think of it like a
robot tutor in the sky
that can semi-read
your mind and figure
out what your
strengths and
weaknesses are, down
to the percentile.”
- J Ferreira, Knewton

7. "Technology can support teachers in the application of
the relevant principles across a group of students with
high variability. In fact, technology can help tailor lessons
to the situation in extremely powerful ways.
“The instrumentation of the online learning environment
to sense the student experience and the ability to
customize content on a student-by-student basis may be
the key to enabling teachers to provide differentiated
instruction, informed by a solid foundation in cognitive
science. Modern online courses and delivery platforms
already implement some of these concepts, and provide
a framework for others."
Source: https://oepi.mit.edu/final-report

8. "In particular, we recommend the creation of thinking
communities to continuously evaluate the kinds of
education reforms proposed here, and the identification
and development of change agents and role models in
implementing these reforms. Here, we refer to change
agents as groups of experts collaborating toward a
common end, rather than just individual visionaries, and
role models as successful groups and institutions that
are willing to pilot new, thoughtfully designed
approaches."
Source: https://oepi.mit.edu/final-report

9. Ignore This
Don’t Do
This

10. Be This

11. Student Views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=JAez7z0bL_s

13. Experience:
In online & hybrid,
attitude, concerns,
questions

14. • https://pollev.com/mindwires
• https://pollev.com/surveys/yJMD5tRSJ

15. Historical Overview:
Focus on issues raised in
discussion

16. If history of universities were
compressed to 15-week term . . .
• First university - 15 weeks ago
• First textbook in US - 6 weeks ago
• First public US university - 4.5 weeks ago
• First distance learning course - 3 weeks ago
• Carnegie hour - 2 weeks ago
• First online course - 2.5 days ago
• Approval of competencies - 1 day ago
• First cMOOC - 16 hours ago
• First xMOOC - 6 hours ago

17. While there will be
(significant) unbundling
around the edges, the bigger
potential impact is how
existing colleges and
universities allow technology-
enabled change to enter the
mainstream of the academic
mission

18. Fall 2014 IPEDS Data

19. Fully-
Online vs.
Mixed-
Course

20. Fall 2014 IPEDS Profile

21. Source:WCET IPEDS report
http://wcet.wiche.edu/sites/default/files/
WCETDistanceEducationEnrollmentReport2016.pdf

22. Source: Grade Level Report
http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/read/survey-reports-2014/

23. "There's a tsunami coming. [But] I can't
tell you exactly how it's going to break."
John Hennessy, Stanford
"We are at the beginning of a technology-led
revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not
the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of
tools that allows interactive learning online"
Drew Faust, Harvard
L. Rafael Reif, MIT

24. Two Sides of the Chasm
• Innovators & Early Adopters: Willing to
take risks, influential
• Early Majority: Much slower adoption, need
holistic solutions
• Late Majority: Approach an innovation with
a high degree of skepticism and after the
majority of society has adopted the
innovation

26. “The asynchronous, individualized nature of
online learning allows differentiation of course
content. Students can control a course’s pace to
fit their learning styles and abilities.”
“Our research found that interactive course
software that provides instantaneous feedback
could be particularly effective in improving
student performance in online courses. ”
PPIC, Successful Online
Courses in California’s
Community Colleges

27. Platforms Matter

28. Source: http://beforeihadkids.com/tag/venn-diagram/#.VW9CRVxViko

29. Source: http://whatabeautifulmess.org/2012/05/31/me-and-my-badass-mini-
van/

30. Source: http://www.jokeroo.com/pictures/funny/1015966.html

31. Source: http://lolheaven.com/is-the-air-conditioning-in-your-minivan-broken-
try-this/

32. Source: http://www.mhtwheels.com/mht-luxury-alloy-gallery-vehicle

33. Source: http://www.edmunds.com/suv/

35. Video Case Studies:
e-Literate TV, others,
hear faculty and students

36. ASU Professor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FAlaeFTpXzQ
Middlebury Professor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=udc3OMyE4Hs

37. Best Practices:
Formative assessment,
reach back row, etc

38. What Have We
Learned?
• Online education takes investment, time
• Very important to target student groups
• Student success rates can be lower than
traditional
• Connection to instructors and to peers is
important
• Often requires team-based course design

40. Groups:
Explore example
courses, what you like
and don’t like

41. MythFolklore

42. Liberty University 101

43. Public Speaking

44. US History

45. Duke Sample Elements

46. Questions:
What did you
like or
dislike?

47. Bring It Together

50. What if every student
had a tutor?
• Adaptive learning systems mimic some
subset of the teaching feedback loop.
• Some aspects are easier to mimic faithfully
than others.
• Most adaptive software provides feedback
to the teacher.

52. We are in the midst of an
inflection point in higher
education driven by
mainstream adoption,
different platform designs,
and moving beyond the
digitization of traditional
classroom

53. Phil Hill: phil@mindwires.com
Web Site: http://e-literate.tv/
e-Literate Blog: http://mfeldstein.com/