Planting
the Seeds for Student Learning via the Internet
KCTCS
Summer Institute in Distance Learning
July 13,
1999, 1:30-5:00 Elizabethtown
Community College
Sally
Kuhlenschmidt, Ph. D.
Index
Overview
The
main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The Main Thing:
- Student learning,
not the teaching
- Change in role.
Participants in Workshop
Teams of about 3 from each
Community and Technical College, typically one instructional designer and one
or two faculty members. Participants are to return to their campus and help
their colleagues.
My assumption is that participants
have determined that Internet instruction will solve some specific problem for
them. Examples of such problems:
- Insufficient faculty
to offer program on a reasonable schedule;
- Desire to reach geographically
or temporally "disabled" population (place-bound or too fluid such
as truck drivers or military personnel; working hours that don't match face-to-face
course times);
- Course content is most
appropriately taught on-line (e.g., Issues in Using the Internet in Instruction).
- Face-to-face instruction
does not match teacher style and Internet instruction does.
- Desire to be able to
compete in an education market no longer protected.
Participants will be less
satisfied to the extent there is not a clearly identified problem being solved.
Objectives
At the end of this session,
participants will be able to
- describe perspectives
on and attitudes about effective on-line instruction;
- outline the basic planning
process for effective on-line instruction;
- identify basic on-line
teaching tools/skills appropriate for their courses with special focus on
(a) the role of various
media in conveying content and
(b) effective management
of interaction options;
- discuss some of the issues
concerning evaluation and on-line instruction, such as evaluating students,
evaluating faculty, and encouraging personal growth.
- identify principles and
activities to use in their own faculty training efforts.
Activity: Priority
Setting
Index
Basic
Planning Process
Every
job is a self-portrait of the individual who did it. --Carolyn Coats, 1994.
Perspectives on Internet
Instruction
-
Activity: Metaphor
Exercise
- Summary of metaphors
and conclusions
-
Surviving Attitudes
- Respect for self,
students, colleagues, administration, culture of the Internet
- Defining boundaries:
Personal, Interpersonal, and Technological
- Reducing information
overload
- Keep it Simple,
Sage
- Networking with others
-
Thriving Attitudes
- Plan for the unexpected
- Know the problem
you are trying to solve. Know the priority.
- Expect to experiment;
Live to learn.
- What people want
most is contact with other people
Finding Your Focus
Handout: Planning
Your Internet Instruction
Handout: Planning
Your Faculty Workshop
-
Target Population
- As teachers:
- As trainers of faculty:
-
Course Description
(Relation to Other courses, Programs)
-
Learning Objectives
- As teachers:
-
As trainers of
faculty:
Impact of Your Structural
Decisions
-
Synchronicity
-
Geography
-
Technology
-
Teaching Philosophy
Index
Tools
for Teaching On-line
If you're
looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good
news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is -
the universe has been left unlocked.
-
Encouraging Communication
Technology
which connects is successful technology. --Source unknown.
- The Heart of Internet
Instruction
- Motivates Students/Instructors
- Learning Facilitation
- Practical
- Content alone is
insufficient for learning
- Methods of Human Interaction
On-line
- Instructor to/from
Student
- E-mail, Mailing
Lists, Phone, F2F
- Students to Students
- Requires training
of Students or overwhelmed
- Structure,
structure, structure
- Activities
(handout on designing activities)
- Immediately Assign
Partners w/Concrete Outcome
- Group Work, e.g.,
Webquest
(http://edweb.sdsu.edu/EdWeb_Folder/courses/EDTEC596/About_WebQuests.html)
- Creating a Safe Space
for Students
- Netiquette
- Privacy
- Informing students
of grades
- FERPA
(http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Support/AcadAffairs/CTL/ferpa.htm)
- Guests: Warn students
before register
- Explicit expectations
for students
- Authorship/Webmaster
- Simple, clear title
- Created/updated Dates
- Contact or mailto
link
- Institutional Association/Requirements
- Bibliography & Biography
-
Scholarly Web Course
- Clear objectives, target
population
- Adequate and ongoing
preparation
- Methods that match
objectives
- Effective content,
facilitation
- Evaluation of learning
- Public reflection &
feedback
- Application to Faculty
Training
- Listen to them
- Build on their knowledge
and goals
- Match to their tech
skills
- Keep it Simple.
Index
Evaluation
and the Internet Course
Results!
Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that
won't work. --Thomas A. Edison.
- Evaluation and the Internet
Course
- Two types
- Personal Development
- Summative Evaluation
- Return to Objectives
- For Student Learning
- For Instructor
Behavior
- Course Management
- Content Delivery
- Technology
- Evaluate Your Training
of Faculty
- Plan to use this
experience professionally
- Activity: Evaluation
of Workshop Learning
Index
Resources
"In
times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." --E. Hoffer.
Index
Issues in Using the Internet
in Instruction
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