Event Description
This
Online Learning Council Town Hall will be held in "speed
dating"
format, with attendees engaging with several presenters
throughout the morning.
A
cross between a poster session and a traditional presentation,
"UPick5" provides the opportunity for advocates of
technology-enhanced learning from across the university to
share and discuss
their work with peers, who will be moving from table to table
every fifteen
minutes.
Those
live-streaming the event will be able to watch five
presentations in real time,
as well as view the recordings on the INSPIRE website.
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Presentations:
Using
Learning Pathways and Digital Badges to Support Early Student
Success and
Retention
Learning
pathways and digital badges provide unique opportunities to
student success.
Learn how Dr. Kristen Betts worked collaboratively with
graduate students and
faculty to develop and launch an APA Mini-MOOC for students.
The free online
Mini-MOOC was designed for new students as a way to engage
them early in APA
writing style and to decrease enrollment melt, as well as
current students who
would like to increase their mastery of APA writing style.
Presenters:
Kristen Betts, Andy Stutzman, Brian Delaney, Tamara Galoyan
Creating
"Physical" Presence with Kubi
Most
agree that creating an environment in which remote attendees
can fully engage with
others in the room presents challenges. There are many
virtual meeting tools
available but most only allow remote attendees to be a
‘fly on the wall’ rather
than a ‘person in the room’. Kubi is a
mini robot giving remote attendees a ‘physical’
presence in the room and consequently, increasing active
engagement. It lets remote
attendees easily look around with 300 degrees of pan and 90
degrees of tilt to
see and interact with others through remote robotic control during
a video
call—not having to rely on the host of the meeting
to move the camera.
Presenters:
Fran Cornelius
Using
Padlet to Bring a Sticky Note Classroom Activity to an Online
Learning
Environment
Affinitizing
is a methodology used by designers to uncover relationships
and patterns. A
traditional affinity diagram consists of numerous color-coded
sticky notes,
each reflecting one observation, quote, finding, or question.
Notes are posted
to a wall and clustered by affinities. Clusters are named and
disclose insights
and opportunities for problem resolution. How can we bring
this valuable
collaborative activity to an online environment? Padlet! This
freemium
application allows users to create an online bulletin board
that fully mimics
the affinitizing activity.
Presenters:
Anne Crowther Cecil, Eileen Shanahan
The
eDUsuite Resource: A Just-In-Time Approach for Educational
Enhancement
The
eDUsuite project, supported through the Office of the Provost,
combines
educational technology and pedagogy by developing a portal to
provide access
and training to innovative educational and learning modules.
The eDUsuite
demonstration system, known as the eDUsuite Resource Center,
is available now
in Blackboard and consists of several elements: The eDUsuite
Innovation Center;
the eDUsuite Collaborative Lab: the eDUsuite Repository; the
Peer Review
System, and the Rating System. While not all elements are
fully functional,
there is sufficient structure to show how the eDUsuite
Resource Center might
function as a one-stop shop for the development, sharing, and
evaluation of
educational applications to promote both instructional
quality and learning efficacy.
Presenters:
Kristen Betts, Tamara Galoyan, Rajashi Ghosh, Donald McEachron
Using
Practice to Reinforce Learning at Scale
Practice
creates a scalable means for students to receive meaningful,
timely feedback
through the power of peer-to-peer video assessment and
coaching. This session
demonstrates ways to use Practice in online programs.
Presenter:
Vinay Ganti
Using RStudio ioslides and PollEv to
Make STEM
Lectures More Engaging
This
session showcases two different technologies that can be used
to make lecture
presentations more engaging. These are orientated towards
STEM subjects but can
be applied in other areas. The first is using open source
RStudio to make
presentations that include dynamical elements. I use this in
material that is
heavy with equations to break the barrier of understanding
complex mathematical
notation. The idea is to make a plot of the equation and
allow the class to
experiment with changing the key parameters and see in real
time how the curve
changes. The second is using PollEv APP to create polling
activities in class
and use it to facilitate student discussion.
Presenter:
Maher Harb
Using
FlipGrid to Help Students Feel More Connected to Their Peers
Online
learning can be isolating for students who prefer interacting
with classmates
and faculty. Using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Model
developed by Garrison,
Anderson, and Archer, faculty searched for a way to engage
students and faculty
as “real” people. In lieu of
one-dimensional text-based discussion boards,
FlipGrid was initiated. It is an easy to use, web-based video
discussion
platform allowing for meaningful collaboration in an online
environment.
Presenters:
Joanne Serembus, Jackie Murphy
Calculus
Online Learning Platform
Project
One’s online assessment platform for Calculus
captures more data about the
processes students use to solve problems, rather than just
the answer. As a
result, students get more personalized feedback, to the
points of where they
made a mistake, why the mistake was made, and what resources
they can use to
correct their thinking. Additionally, tutors, teachers and
administrators can
measure student learning and course efficacy with real-time
analytics. These
analytics can be used to understand a student’s
strengths and weaknesses, and
measure how well a certain concept was learned based on
overall class
performance. The platform has been beta tested at numerous
local high schools
and universities, including Drexel University and The
University of
Pennsylvania.
Presenter:
Mansoor Siddiqui
How
to Use Local Experts to Enrich Online Courses
If
you don’t have the time or budget to bring
out-of-town experts into your
classes, there is a low-cost alternative. Drexel faculty and
staff have deep
knowledge and experience in a wide range of disciplines and
are usually willing
to share their expertise with students. It’s very
easy to create virtual
interviews with one of Bb Learn’s newer tools,
VoiceThread. During this
session, I show how I have recorded guest-expert interviews
with
representatives from the Graduate College, the Department of
Sociology, the
Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel’s Office of
General Counsel.
Presenter:
Lawrence Souder |