Month: April 2010

Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds Kick-Off

2010-2011 Research Team Charges.pdfWhat drew you to this particular team? some exposure w/ commercial, entertainment gaming: Atari 2600, Playstation, PS2, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, Macintosh American role-playing, action-adventure, simulation, puzzlersgame design interestsmotivational theory What skills do you feel…

2010-2011 Research Team Charges.pdf

What drew you to this particular team?

  • some exposure w/ commercial, entertainment gaming: Atari 2600, Playstation, PS2, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, Macintosh
  • American role-playing, action-adventure, simulation, puzzlers
  • game design interests
  • motivational theory

What skills do you feel like you are bringing to this project and which ones would you like to work on? (project management related, content related, contacts/networking related, etc.)

  • organizational skills
  • brainstorming – collaborative creation
  • open minded
  • willing to extend myself
  • huge “F” – try to compensate, zealot
  • will need help with short-cuts, meeting deadlines and long-term goals

Nursing Online CE Summer ’10 Update

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groupsList of participantsNo creditSurveySummer Groupsmake changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)screen cap quizzes, then chuck them”You have now completed this course” change link2. Helpful Informationcheck presentation lengthsremove…

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groups

  • List of participants
  • No credit
  • Survey

Summer Groups

  • make changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function
  • 6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)
    • screen cap quizzes, then chuck them
    • “You have now completed this course” change link
    • 2. Helpful Information
      • check presentation lengths
      • remove maximize/minimize toggle button
      • remove “click here to return to the course content” link
    • 3. Presentation
      • no banner?
      • re-publish w/o toggle button
    • 4. Technical problems – add info to OTS
    • 5. AI – add alert
    • 6. Quiz
      • check feedback options
      • “all at once” questions
      • delete action
  • 6009
    • About page – text and recording?
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • screen cap and remove quiz
  • 6011
    • About page text
    • publish presentation
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • wrote Colin about deleted files??
  • 8171A
    • remove quizzes
    • reverse import from DEV?

CAPE: Leadership and Challenges in School Finance Course

Attending: Erin Garthe, Tim Perry, Caroline SkinnerVia Phone: Ed Donovan, Kent MatsuedaBackground1.5 years ago Superintendents Advisory Board Feedback: we need info on school finances for prof dev!content: finance management and tying $ to academic achievementDr. Hartman created this 3 credit…

Attending: Erin Garthe, Tim Perry, Caroline Skinner
Via Phone: Ed Donovan, Kent Matsueda

Background

  • 1.5 years ago Superintendents Advisory Board Feedback: we need info on school finances for prof dev!
    • content: finance management and tying $ to academic achievement
  • Dr. Hartman created this 3 credit course that has been approved for Act 45
    • initially set for this past Spring ’10 semester
    • 6 real-time sessions, each scheduled for 2 hrs
    • rolled out to 5-6 campuses via Polycom selected for convenience to the learners and Polycom seat capacity
    • scheduled for 8-10 AM during the day, Erin mentioned that it would be likely that participants have to leave the sessions for more pressing matters
  • initially marketing through Penn Link listserv
  • less than 200 hits on the website
  • zero registrations
  • adv board said:
    • weather cancellations was a problem
    • we missed the boat for this cycle, starts again this Fall ’10
    • bitter subject, needed but an “ugly” subject

Future adaptations

  • Caroline: lack of specificity on the content in the past marketing campaign

Still to be determined

  • What are the activities?
  • Are we going with streaming, recording…?
  • Ed: probably didactic, instructor driven interaction
  • Assessments: “job-embedded” assignments with 5-6 deliverables

Protected page related to findings from the meeting: https://our.outreach.psu.edu/content/17662

C&I Leadership Academy

PeopleAttending: Rick & Nancy Eckard (Conference Planner)Lead faculty: Bob Hendrickson rmh6 (Education Policy Studies)TA’s: Zeke Kimball ewk124 & Phil Blackman pcb141; consider succession planning through the end of the programFollow-up Facilitator: Lisa Luttuca (Associate Professor)ScheduleF2F Conference, 1 week, 6/29-7/2, begins…

People

  • Attending: Rick & Nancy Eckard (Conference Planner)
  • Lead faculty: Bob Hendrickson rmh6 (Education Policy Studies)
  • TA’s: Zeke Kimball ewk124 & Phil Blackman pcb141; consider succession planning through the end of the program
  • Follow-up Facilitator: Lisa Luttuca (Associate Professor)

Schedule

  • F2F Conference, 1 week, 6/29-7/2, begins on a Sunday-that evening there will be a keynote
  • 9 months to follow-up with readings and discussions

Background

  • participants are generally associate deans and department heads
  • modeled after a program at Harvard that was designed for higher-level administrators, a more intense and expensive program
  • this program is for 2nd tier administrators of smaller institutions and colleges

Description

  • Program Website: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/academic-leadership/
  • non-credit certificate program
  • program capped at 30 participants
  • required hardware? laptops for everyone?
  • costs: IT support $32/person; ≈$300 for E-Live; $720 for ID support
  • F2F Conference Week
    • Rick: we’d need at least 2 hours for training (probably on the last day in the morning)
    • located at the Nittany Lion Inn, Ball Room AB
      • Rick: connectivity? free wifi? wired connection and projector for the presenters?
    • different presenters for the morning and afternoon sessions
    • Pre-conference: run E-Live tests
  • Follow-up
    • each month will have a focus
    • faculty leader (Lisa) for each month
    • there will likely be guest speakers each month
    • primarily independent work during the month and discussions and debrief
    • ANGEL Group
      • PSU-ID’s will be used
      • some participants will need to be added manually
      • the SOAR team should be able to automatically link the ANGEL Group to their listing in SOAR
    • E-Live Session(s)

Next Steps

  • determine what will be put into ANGEL
  • determine what Bob’s level of preparation is; we’ll need a course outline for each online session; how much time will the participants have to dedicate for prep each month?
  • materials? Library’s eReserves for copyrighted materials/articles; students may need support turning on access for their accounts to link with the Library
  • what are they going to do for 3 hours? will the participants be grouped in the activities?
  • setup E-Live sessions for the entire year; no need for performance release needed
  • will the E-Live sessions be recorded? if yes, then we’ll need separate sessions; if no, then we won’t
  • setup a skeleton in ANGEL based on the tentative schedule from the portal
  • we need to map out at least the first few months

Blue Team: ID-IPS Update

Since the Last UpdateJeff Hand and Equella – ON-HOLD (until Jamie returns) meeting with Jeff to discuss the system and his needs, future planning, etc.Just2It Faculty Development – closing session is today; only 3 participants attending :-(mLearnCon – registered, thanks…

  1. Since the Last Update
    1. Jeff Hand and Equella – ON-HOLD (until Jamie returns) meeting with Jeff to discuss the system and his needs, future planning, etc.
    2. Just2It Faculty Development – closing session is today; only 3 participants attending 🙁
    3. mLearnCon – registered, thanks to Mary!
    4. MYRTLE – finally all caught up!
  2. PSU
    1. Google Apps for Education Whitepaper – we’re about 90% there
  3. Outreach
    1. Leadership Academy – brand new; Nancy Eckert, Conference Planner, scheduling initial faculty (Bob Hendrickson & Lisa Latinka) kick off session ASAP
  4. World Campus Learning Design
    1. New courses?
  5. CE@UP
    1. ART H 111 – I now have access to Arts & Architecture Art History course! well… kinda
    2. CE@UP Faculty Portal – just reorganized the site and am waiting for Shawn to finish moving the content so that we can get the SME’s to review the content
    3. Will ask Angela about any new summer courses?
  6. CAPE
    1. EDSGN 498A Photovoltaics – requested a chance to regroup; course redesign is probable, but unknown; we have 8 DVD’s, but don’t know how they want to use them
    2. ENGR 497E Project Management – looking into changes for the next offering
    3. NURS 6003-6008, 8171A – final summer prep
    4. NURS 6009 Living with a Life Threatening Illness – unknown status, waiting on Mediasite Live materials
    5. 8171A Pilot (Manual Course) – finishing up survey, Fall 2010
  7. Other
    1. ePortfolio – getting bogged down
    2. Meeting Facilitation – professional development course
    3. WC Integration – need to know more about start-to-finish
    4. ScreenFlow  – demo (Linas, Patty & Cindy)
  8. Kate’s Help
    1. Nursing Summer ’10 courses – help get the live courses going for the summer
    2. Elive sessions – C&I Leadership Academy
    3. Presenter Demo – venue?

Personalized Learning

Personalized learning requires heavy lifting by the servers as opposed to the faculty adapting the course to each learner.How do you even begin to personalize a learning environment for a kinestetic learner vs. an introspective one? At this point, I…

Personalized learning requires heavy lifting by the servers as opposed to the faculty adapting the course to each learner.

How do you even begin to personalize a learning environment for a kinestetic learner vs. an introspective one? At this point, I think I would need to see successful examples of PLEs used in credit, online, distance education courses.

Article: PLE and Public Education (K-12 context)
Recorded 2011 Webcast: Education Technology: Revolutionizing Personalized Learning and Student Assessment

ANGEL Assessment Tool (AAT) Training

Link to previous entryMeeting NotesNatalie will cover the theory and definitions of the AAT vs. Quizzes. I’ve requested access to the presentation. Questions [Bank] (Manage Tab) are linked to Assessments (Lesson Tab)Question Sets – way of organizing a series of…

Link to previous entry

Meeting Notes

  • Natalie will cover the theory and definitions of the AAT vs. Quizzes. I’ve requested access to the presentation. Questions [Bank] (Manage Tab) are linked to Assessments (Lesson Tab)
  • Question Sets – way of organizing a series of questions within an assessment
  • Question Pool – presented as a question type… it is a query on the course question bank, they are pulled randomly, use question sets to “un-randomly” choose questions
  • Why should we add questions to the QB? Because this is part of the new paradigm. We should be thinking about adding all of our questions into the QB eventually.
  • Louise: Our top priority is to convert all quizzes into the AAT.
  • Store screenshots of quizzes as hidden PDF’s in the actual courses.

Wiz-Bang Presentation Tools Demo

with Kate Twoey. If anything, I’ll probably be supporting Kate during this demo. She’s got a lot of excellent experience working with Presenter. If I recall, she and Jen use it for HRER courses. Based on the Learning Design “Course…

with Kate Twoey. If anything, I’ll probably be supporting Kate during this demo. She’s got a lot of excellent experience working with Presenter. If I recall, she and Jen use it for HRER courses. Based on the Learning Design “Course Inventory” GoogleDoc, there seems to be a number of courses that currently feature PowerPoint with Audio. Of those, I’m curious how many use Presenter to publish those presentations.

The idea for this demo first came up in a Blue Team meeting I believe. It’s been a little while since the idea first came up. I’d like to move ahead with this asap because there are other demo’s I’d like to get working on.

One possible set of Guiding Questions (based on ELI’s 7Things…) that I would like to get Kate and El’s feedback on.

  1. What are these tools? “Wiz-Bang Presentation Tools” Adobe Presenter, Camtasia, MediaSite Live, iSpring, Adobe Connect Pro, Kate: start with a scenario
  2. Who’s doing it?
  3. How does it work? Workflow: planning, setup, recording, post-edits, publishing
  4. Why are these tools significant? Intimate, allows for new programming options, narrows the interpretation issue
  5. What are the downsides to using this approach (vs. individual tools)? Kate: certain edits can effect your delivery date, republishing; recording
  6. Where is it going?
  7. What are the impacts for teaching and learning? Let the scenarios illustrate/answer
  8. What will our presentation format be? Kate and Kent will present on the fundamentals, a couple of examples and closing. We will try to ask others to participate if they are using virtual presentation tools in their courses. TESTIFY or present. It would be nice if we provided a hand out or a link to a website of all the resources/information.

ELI also presents a scenario, so we should consider that as well. Actually, as noted above, will be showing a number of scenarios/examples. I crossed off a couple because I’m not sure we need to cover these depending upon the audience, etc.

Before we can plan our demo, we need to answer the following:

  • Who’s the audience? Venue? Learning Design, Open Mic
  • What’s our time frame? We’re presenting June 1st, we’ll have 45 min.
  • Are there any other important questions to answer? Where are the resources, platform issues
  • What resources will we need? Probably a projector, laptop… the usual stuff 🙂

Possible matrix headings: Tool | Features | Availability | Contacts

Updated: 14 May 2010

Equella access for CE@UP

I finally got back to Jamie about working on an Equella demo for CE@UP. Rick had asked me back in October 2009 (?) to create a list of Equella items of interest for Jeff Hand.Joe says that Equella can’t generate…

I finally got back to Jamie about working on an Equella demo for CE@UP. Rick had asked me back in October 2009 (?) to create a list of Equella items of interest for Jeff Hand.

Joe says that Equella can’t generate reports just yet, so I’ve been collating this data by hand from the search results I’ve begun. This document
Equella Objects of Interest to CE@UP.xlsx is just a subset of the entire list. Information that I’ve left out is:

  • [uploaded] date
  • version
  • status
  • keywords
  • unabridged descriptions

Rick responded: the two types of information that will be really helpful to Jeff and faculty would be: 1) Is it a full lesson that can be used in a course; and 2) Is it an interactive element that can be used in a course.

The first is probably more valuable. So I’d probably want to know what the lesson is about (short description) and how do I integrate it into my hybrid course.

Also, which lessons are related to existing WC courses. This would give the faculty an idea of how many lessons they may be able to draw upon for there course.

Jamie recommended a demo and I replied that was exactly what I had in mind to: to try to figure out what they would need access to, how they might use it, who might need access it in the future and when.

RHS 301 Student having problems Copying&Pasting from Word into MT4

I’ve been trading emails with a student who’s apparently having problems moving content generated in a desktop word processor, I think it is Word, into his MT4 blog. I just made a test and things look good for me. So…

I’ve been trading emails with a student who’s apparently having problems moving content generated in a desktop word processor, I think it is Word, into his MT4 blog. I just made a test and things look good for me. So I’ve asked for his URL and original document. He worked with the Helpdesk after speaking with Linas and suggested that he use WordPad as an intermediary. That apparently helped, but didn’t solve his problems. I won’t be able to offer any additional assistance unless I see his originals.

Anyone else having problems with copying and pasting docs from the desktop into MT4?

Example from this document (Blooms and Question Types.docx):

E-learning and Assessment

Version 4.

 

Reference http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/teaching-academy/Assistance/course/questions.htm

 

The education strategy (March 2004) has highlighted that Bristol University:-

1.    Is a “research intensive” university where the student learning experience is informed by research and is delivered by research active staff.

2.    Wishes to retain its high quality teaching.

3.    Needs to widen access and to look at diverse progression routes into HE.

4.    Needs to expand postgraduate numbers – particularly on taught masters programmes

5.    To retain their highly rated international research output and to deliver high quality teaching, requires that teaching is cost effective.

 

Whilst E-learning has a relevance to all of these points, this paper will focus on point 5 i.e. the requirement for teaching to be cost effective. The contribution of E-learning to assessment is a major area where substantial gains in efficiency can be achieved.

 

Currently staff spend a significant amount of time

1.    setting examinations

2.    ensuring that they match course learning objectives,

3.    liasing with the external examiner

4.    marking

5.    exam related student administration

 

Much of this activity is repeated at least twice per year and sadly the outcome is often only summative rather than formative. Several staff within the university have already adopted CAA (computer aided assessment) as a means of addressing this problem and have found pedagogic as well as efficiency gains. However this approach has not yet become embedded. Reasons for this limited uptake include:-