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  • Allan Gyorke 11:32 am on January 29, 2013 Permalink |
    Tags: , ICMS, learning analytics   

    February eEducation Council Meeting Agenda 

    Hi Everyone. I’m sure your semester has gone like mine – everything seems to be happening at once and all of it is focused on online and hybrid courses. At least we’re not managing a transition out of ANGEL at the same time!

    Cole is out of town for next week’s eEducation council, so he has asked me to organize things. Here are some items for our meeting on February 7th from 10:00 to 11:30 in 118 Wagner:

    Quick Update on Art 10 in iTunesU (Allan)
    Learning Analytics (Chris Millet and Bart Pursel)
    World Campus Student Use of Technology (Janet May Dillon, Annie Taylor, and Stevie Rocco)
    Instructional Content Management System Requirements (Keith Bailey and Bart Pursel)

    See you all next week.

     

    • Wayne 10:16 am on February 7, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Can any one help with the Polycom info, getting a “site busy” message?

      • Allan Gyorke 10:29 am on February 7, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Sorry Wayne. We’ve been working with TNS to try to fix the issue. No luck so far.

      • Allan Gyorke 10:34 am on February 7, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        It should be connected now.

        • Allan Gyorke 10:34 am on February 7, 2013 Permalink

          Glenhill 222

        • Wayne 10:42 am on February 7, 2013 Permalink

          Here. Thanks Allan.

  • Allan Gyorke 11:03 am on December 13, 2011 Permalink |
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    Paperless University 

    Looking ahead to 2012, I can see ETS exploring ways to help faculty and students transition into more of a paperless environment. Aside from environmental concerns, the paper that we use in academia can be expensive for students considering the cost of textbooks and the paper-based workflow that on-campus students use to print materials, take notes, share drafts, and submit assignments. Many students quickly run through their printing allotment and then have to pay per page.

    This isn’t new to many of you. As Ann Taylor pointed out, in an online class, electronic submissions are the norm. I’m not sure what your faculty do with those submissions though – do they like to print them out and grade by hand? Do they stay completely electronic? And are they using electronic textbooks themselves, or do they prefer print? Can students order electronic textbooks – and do they take advantage of the extra features such as self-quizzing? What about trends in libraries lending out electronic books?

    I don’t want to preach to the university about the virtues of going paperless. I’d like to hear what this group sees going on in this space and then talk to faculty about theory versus reality. I can see us creating some models and best practices that can guide other faculty who would like to give this a try.

     

  • Allan Gyorke 4:36 pm on September 8, 2011 Permalink |
    Tags: active learning, collaborative learning, flipping the classroom, Khan Academy, , , student engagement   

    Flipping the Classroom 

    Another thing we’ve been exploring this summer is the idea of “Flipping the Classroom”. The basic idea is taking “lecture” content and providing it to students so they can go through it before class time. Then you do activities during normal class time (discussion, problem sets, collaborative writing, etc…) so students can work with each other and get more personalized feedback from faculty and other students. This idea represents the convergence of many of the technologies that we have been exploring such as lecture capture, podcasting, screencasting, and Khan Academy along with pedagogical concepts such as active learning, collaborative learning, and student engagement.

    This is similar to what we are doing with the new eEducation Council format: information ahead of time and then using meeting time for a deeper discussion.

    Gary found an Infographic, which does a good job of illustrating a K-12 example of a flipped course: http://knewton.marketing.s3.amazonaws.com/images/infographics/flipped-classroom.jpg

    An ETS Hot Team completed an investigation of this idea and produced the following white paper:

    Click to access 2011-Flipping-the-Classroom.pdf

     

    • Bart Pursel 2:36 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The folks that I’m working with on this as part of the lecture capture working group are trying to flip small portions of their course. We spent some time looking at the course content for the 16-week format, then identified a week or two that would make sense to flip. This seems to be a nice method to both build adoption and allow people to just tip a toe in the water to see how they feel about it. So far the faculty member is really liking it and already discussing ‘flipping’ more of his sessions next semester.

      • ryt1 2:47 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Are you collecting any feedback from students or the instructor? It might be interesting to see if there are common questions or research interests across the folks who are doing these sorts of things Bart. I know we have done several things with faculty, and for some of those we have collected data and done a few conference presentations/papers…

    • ryt1 8:21 am on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Engineering has been doing a few things along this line with faculty including revising targeted class sessions to identify where a ‘flip’ would be best to lecture capture, scaffolding problem sets, and placing ‘concept topics and worked examples’ online in order to allow for more active learning in the classroom. A couple of projects have provided promising information and results.

      • Cole Camplese 10:52 am on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        That is something we might want to explore — a shared methodology for *when* to think about flipping.

      • Allan Gyorke 9:06 am on September 12, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Rox, John Messner is the person I know about in Engineering who is doing this kind of work. When this goes further, we’ll need some great real-world examples of how this is done. Moving lecture content to online tools is only one part of this. I think redesigning the classroom time is what needs more attention.

  • Allan Gyorke 3:59 pm on September 8, 2011 Permalink |
    Tags: digital storytelling, Jim Groom,   

    I wanted to make everyone aware that Jim Groom will be visiting Penn State on September 20th. We’re still working on the details, but it looks like we will have an open session with him in Foster Auditorium in the afternoon (3:00-4:00).

    Why should you care? Have you ever heard in movies where they say “that’s so crazy – it might just work”? That’s Jim. He has been doing some insane experiments with educating in the open. He was the force behind University of Mary Washington’s adoption of WordPress. He is a critic of traditional learning management systems. He loves to take on the role of weird characters and talk about educational technologies. All of this culminated in Digital Storytelling 106 and the “Summer of Oblivion”.

    Jim’s work is a reminder to me that the science of course design includes a lot of art and theater as well. I hope most of you get a chance to meet him.

    SIgn up for his talk at http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki/Jim_Groom_Comes_To_Penn_State

    More about Jim at:
    http://bavatuesdays.com/

     

    • Brad Kozlek 4:01 pm on September 14, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The talk will be on the library’s Media Site page: http://live.libraries.psu.edu – looks the talk is not listed there yet.

    • wea3 3:53 pm on September 14, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Thanks for bring Jim to PSU. I lurked around DS106 last fall, very interesting class. I’m interested in the profile of the students who enrolled in the course and how they felt about “the others” in course. Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it to UP for the event. Is it going to be broadcast or recorded?

      I really gravitate toward some of Jim’s ideas, but always think – “Do I like this because of personal preferences or could this scale or apply various courses.” The DS106 radio was a great community building tool.

    • Brad Kozlek 2:05 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I am very excited for Jim’s talk. He is always thinking far out ahead beyond the conventional wisdom.

  • Allan Gyorke 4:51 pm on August 31, 2011 Permalink |
    Tags: faculty fellows,   

    TLT Fellows Gathering 

    For the past three summers, we have had a group of faculty join us to work on a special project related to their research interests and technology. This summer was a little different. We added our first student fellow and most of our project work will last for a year or more.

    One of the highlights of every cycle is getting the fellows together to talk and cross-pollenate ideas. The picture above, was taken at the TLT Fellows dinner, the day before the Learning Design Summer Camp. From left to right, the people in the picture are Brad Kozlek (ETS), Jim Jansen (IST), Chris Long (Liberal Arts), Davis Shaver (Liberal Arts), and Keith Bailey (Arts and Architecture). These gatherings always lead to energetic discussions and this year was no different.

     

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