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Presented at #OITSYMP15 at Delta State.
Higher education is undergoing a rapid transformation due to changes in societal interests and values. As educators, we must be responsive to these changes and look to develop strategies to best meet the needs of our students inside and outside of the classroom. We are bombarded with new technologies and practices to aid us in our efforts, including blended learning, learner analytics, MOOCs, open education resources (OER), mobile technologies, social media, gamification, and more. How do we decide what is right for us and our students? I will discuss considerations derived from these trends that will help us design our future.
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Higher education is undergoing a rapid transformation due to changes in societal interests and values. As educators, we must be responsive to these changes and look to develop strategies to best meet the needs of our students inside and outside of the classroom. We are bombarded with new technologies and practices to aid us in our efforts, including blended learning, learner analytics, MOOCs, open education resources (OER), mobile technologies, social media, gamification, and more. How do we decide what is right for us and our students? I will discuss considerations derived from these trends that will help us design our future.
Realness, authenticism
Embrace differences, multiple identities, individuality, and creativity…
Increase in use of social media and self-disclosure has led to an increase in the weight indivdiuals put on being real – being human, and being authentic
Emotions are valued, emotional intelligence is valued over other intelligences
Greater need to develop an identify, express that identify, by building a strong culture and presence as an institution, and developing a voice as a teacher, teacher presence or social presence
This is no longer the days of IBM corporate culture, no emotions, logic drives everything…
OPEN
Where they get information? Not behind closed doors.
MOOCs, OER
YouTube, Social Media
Google
Resources at our finger tips, in a instant
Everyone has access to these techologies, to thee courses
Status leveling
Democratizing
Anytime, Anywhere
United airlines
Ubiquitous
Mobile
Access
Bandwidth
Phones, tablets, laptops
Push – instant – info, support, etc
All instructional materias -- ACCESS
Access and Equality
Every campus process needs to be able to be completed on a mobile device, mobile web or app
This includes instructional materials need to be accessible depending on device, bandwidth, time, and disAbility
Support needs to be able to be received from all units through multiple mediums and times
Library, IT Help, Tutoring, Advising
Reduce costs, ensure quality
Produce results
Support student success
Great accountability expected
Enrollments are down
Less funding from States
Social presence theory from the 70s discusses that rich media leads to perceptions of another, even when being media, as being a real human being, authentic, potentially having greater feelings of immediacy and feelings of intimacy.
We have come to a time when we as a society value emotions, emotional intelligence. We see that in the evidence of the media we consume.
You should show that you care. You can be vulnerable rather than strong and even impersonal all the time.
We even seen in some research by our friends at UCF that showing you care. From Dziubin -- The final solution incorporated some combination of “Instructor was interested in your learning,” and “Instructor showed respect and concern for students.”
Tell story about mother stripping my emotions to create masculine IBM worker to ensure my success.
Role transformation -- Changing from emotional neutral business writing to being able to self-disclose
Increase self-disclose leads to higher degree of trust,
Social media reveals things through an any one individual’s lens rather than traditional filtering from media alone.
The great thing is that research for years has been telling us that the internet allows us to better express our true-selfs, our authentic selfs
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Research tell us that the internet allows folks to better express our True selfs. This may be hard for folks who have multiple selfs. The true self and the project self and/or the future self.
To not have a multiple selfs. Just one, authentic self.
Ask your students what is learning and success for them, what they need to learn
Looks at national surveys
Acknowledge the success of faculty and staff in being innovative in using technology to increase the efficacy of the university
Student interaction with instructor
Student interaction with content
Rich and current content
Building cooperation and opportunities for feedback
Student interaction with other students
UWM leads the state in the mediated delivery of courses and programs in tech-enhanced, blended, and online, including traditional and self-paces (UPACE).
UWM will lead the state in flex programming and competency based education.
UWM has received recognition for its efforts in blended faculty development and self-paced (UPACE) instruction.
GOAL: UWM will lead the state in MOOC delivery.
The means to do this will be built off of the knowledge of blended and online faculty development and course design, upace model, and flex programming.
Students:
Learning, at our finger tips just in time
Instructor role change, content is already Googleable, what do you bring to the table as an instructor
Instructional support, just in time
Instructional materials, Oer, MOOCs, how to find repurpose
Higher education is not longer about weeding out a certain population of students…Russ Polin, WCET, reminded me on Twitter recently that this was an important message
Our role is to help students grow and flourish, to be successful
In providing open and continuous access based on the expectations society has put on our students, we need to change the way we think about things and focus on how to bring down the walls rather than how do we compartmentalize, control, build walls, and charge for entry.
In bringing down the walls think of open webspaces, open physical spaces, free access, less technology hurdles, more bridges, greater seamlessness, and building transparency….
Support OER or digital content and the creation and sharing of open textbooks. Reading for class should not be privileged. Information is not scarce. Youtube, a social media, and a variety of sources have open, free information to be curated for students.
Open content for others to use.
2. Providing faculty with a $5,000 summer stipend to create an open textbook could save students $60,000 in one semester.
Let’s student drive and curate content. These are 21st century skills that they will need in the workplace not matter whether or not their job exists today.
Transition – focus not only on what is happening inside of the classroom, but what is happening outside of the classroom.
1. OER Study
Independent samples t-tests using OER as the grouping variable illustrates OER classes reported significantly higher self-perceived learning (M = 37.29, SD = 7.79) as compared to courses that did no use OER content (M=32.41, SD = 6.58), t(80) = 2.86, p < .01.
Additionally, OER courses reported significantly higher self-perceived satisfaction in Ginkgotree (M = 31.06, SD = 4.72) as compared to non-OER content courses (M = 27.34, SD = 4.75), t(80) = 3.404, p < .01.
Part of this comes through providing open and continuous access to so many things…in so many ways….
4. Incentive and support (through libraries) open publishing
4. The James A. Gibson Library is cancelling our subscription to a package of 1,363 journals from Wiley-Blackwell effective December 31, 2014 due to financial constraints. The cumulative impact of annual price increases from scholarly publishers, coupled with the higher American dollar, make it impossible for the Library to maintain this subscription.
Incentivize the capturing of tacit knowledge. Provide free domains for faculty and students to blog and develop digital identities. Please don’t brand them ;)
Again, embrace differences, multiple identities, individuality, and creativity…
Share your materials as an instructor, start a blog! Open up your course to the public, put your digital content on YouTube.
Support your students public displays of their work, building their digital literacy skills, helping them document what they learned in class and showing it to future employers.
2. Encourage technical an process systems where courses stay open for the life of a students’ tenure at the university. Provide students access to their content and work, or, allow them to take it with them.
3. Offer free courses to potential or incoming students. Offer free courses in specialized research areas. Offer a free course sharing multiple disciplinary approaches, even interdisciplinary research on world problems.
2. LMS research data – students expect access to digital materials for…ever.
3. Free by Christopher
Richard Culatta
How many of you believe this?
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Consideration in that
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Technology,
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Outside of the standard curriculum
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Society in general
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All encompassing of the things we talk about
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In thinking about how we might traditionally communicate with out students…
Meet our needs
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Source, Receiver
Sending, Encoding
Past experiences, attitudes
Now you have to start thinking more about what you want to communicate to your students, and what is the best way to communicate that to them, while considering how they are receiving you
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Source, Receiver
Sending, Encoding
Past experiences, attitudes
You need a strategy, in the classroom a pedagogical strategy
What social process will it help me facilitate
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As part of our US Dept of Ed FIPSE grant we are looking to conduct research across institutions that helps bring greater clarity to these key factors in course and program design to help student have a quality experience.