eLearning Strategic MERLOT
Robbie Melton – Tennesse Board of Regents
She’s very funny!
Framed discussion in terms of rising gas prices leading towards more eLearning
Talked about how learning objects save time and money for the organization
Integrates with Desire2Learn course management system, easy to integrate MERLOT learning objects into the course materials
Strategic planning: faculty training, budget line item, online [...]
Big Visions, Middle-Sized Obstacles, Small Steps: Brief Hybrid Workshops and Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning Modules
Steven Gilbert
Todd Zakrajsek
Ray Prudom
Here is the online component!
I attended this project because of the toolkit project. It was designed for Teaching and Learning Centers, but much of the content was useful for libraries, too. I think TLCs have a lot [...]
Expanding Class Time and Shrinking Classrooms: Technopedagogy
Virgil Renfroe and Ruth Omunda
This presentation discussed including audio files, narrated powerpoint, and podcasting with a traditional CMS.
Design groups that meet outside of class an hour a week
match top tier with bottom tier students
one of rotating responsibilities: weekly summarizer who says the main conclusion, involvement, etc.
assessment
Summative assessment: specific grades
Formative [...]
Excellence in Online Teaching by Design
Ingrid N. Thompson-Sellers
Shared quotes from Richard Leblanc, York University, on good teaching
Thompson-Sellers performed a small exploratory study of exemplary online teachers
What are the internal and external characteristics that define an exemplary online teacher?
Can they be acquired through training?
Study was interview-based
Emerging themes: design, development, utilization, management, evaluation, relationship and social structure
Design [...]
Animation and Online Teaching
Galen Foresman, Scott Cooper, Chris Metivier
Animation can help:
unity and consistency
reusability
engagement of material
attractive to students
avoids the “talking head” model
Course structure: reminds me of a game interface (like Mario)
Course content: reminds me of Strongbad
Interactivity
Production
Characters: voice, appearance, attitude
Script: course content, dialog
Storyboard: narrative form, visual gags (and chart, if branching)
Animation: bring it all together
Animation [...]
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