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Dr. Laurie Yates Eastern Oregon University

Online and Hybrid Learning Come Alive: How We Can Move From a Passive to an Engaged Community of Learning . Dr. Laurie Yates Eastern Oregon University. Where/Who Are Our Students? . Online: at least 30% (Friedman & Friedman, 2011; Hoskins, 2012) Traditional and non-traditional students

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Dr. Laurie Yates Eastern Oregon University

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  1. Online and Hybrid Learning Come Alive: How We Can Move From a Passive to an Engaged Community of Learning Dr. Laurie Yates Eastern Oregon University

  2. Where/Who Are Our Students? • Online: at least 30% (Friedman & Friedman, 2011; Hoskins, 2012) • Traditional and non-traditional students • Trends: online and hybrid • “Online is a culture to the Millennial generation. Yet to most colleges, it is a delivery method” (Pacansky-Brock, 2013).

  3. Poll Everywhere

  4. Poll Everywhere

  5. The challenge

  6. Teaching in an Online Environment • Asynchronous environments • Sense of isolation/disconnection • Reduced channels of communication • Retention • How to engage and motivate students? Develop a community of learning?

  7. Student Engagement • Student-Student, Student-Teacher, Student-Subject • Goals: Students develop skills and abilities • Problem solving • Critical thinking • Communication • Collaboration • Ethical judgment • Navigation of the Internet to find useful information

  8. Different challenges call for different solutions

  9. “Technology should not be integrated into college learning for the sake of using cool new tools to engage tech-savvy students” (Pacansky-Brock, 2013) • Prepare students for a successful life in our digital, interconnected, collaborative society.

  10. Best Practices: Teacher Presence • Frequent feedback • Timely grading • Quick response to student questions/problems • Interest in getting to know students • Communication using several methods • Adaptive and flexible • Incorporated life experiences • Fun, energetic (Baran, Correla, & Thompson, 2013)

  11. Techniques and Tools • Visual and audio feedback • Video announcements and lectures • Well organized and visually pleasing LMS sites • Virtual office hours, communication with students (phone, chat, email, video, social networks) • Meaningful and engaging discussions

  12. Content and Feedback • Jing • http://www.techsmith.com/jing • Free and paid upgrade • Video recording of computer screen/5 minutes • Screen capture • Camtasia • Fee discount for educators • Video screen capture and editing • http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html • Voice Thread and Audacity (audio record & audit)

  13. Announcements Welcome to Marketing Strategies • Feedback on assignments Feedback on Advertisement Critiques • Virtual classes or group discussions

  14. Producing Videos • YouTube • Free • http://www.youtube.com • Private or public • Windows Movie Maker • iMovie for Mac

  15. Participatory Learning Environment • Poll Everywhere • http://www.polleverywhere.com • Limited to 40 responses: free for educators • Text messaging, Twitter, web browser • Experiential • Digital simulations • Games

  16. Communication • Skype • Google Hangout • Social Media • FaceBook • Google+ • Twitter

  17. Conclusion • Using today’s communication tools to reach today’s students • Disruptive technology • Print • Radio • TV • Internet/Web 2.0 • Teacher presence

  18. References

  19. References

  20. Thank You

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