Notable sessions
October 10, 2012 – 3:00pm
David Wicks (Seattle Pacific University, US)
Andrew Lumpe (Seattle Pacific University, US)
David Denton (Seattle Pacific University, US)
- Design appropriate projects – requires collaboration, length of project, complex or challenging, COI
- Suitable collaborative tools
- Team planning – student picks, consider requirements, homo/heterogeneous?
- Collaborative script – http://tinyurl.com/collab-script
- Organized into phases – milestones
- Individual & group deadlines – everyone has a voice
- Provide training for technology
- Reflection on the process
- Assess individual and group after each phase, lots of feedback
- Assess deliverables after each phase
October 11, 2012 – 8:50am
Sebastian Thrun (Udacity, Google, US)
- mission: education for everyone
- higher ed in crisis – cost (2x inflation) and debt (next bubble, Penn State #1 borrowing at $160 million last year)
- knowledge checks embedded in the video
- Salaman Khan: separate teaching from credentialing
- 160K classrooms of one
- $1/student/class
- adaptive learning – at their own pace, multiple paths, multi-dimensional assessment
- impact on universities? faculty?
October 12, 2012 – 10:40am
Ray Schroeder (University of Illinois- Springfield, US)
Karen Vignare (MSUglobal, Michigan State University , US)
- MOOC in three weeks?
- success due to: internet, cost of tech, Great Recession
- lots of new LMSs (Google, iTunesU, etc.)
- University of the People – $500K from Gates foundation to get accredited
- Factors by scale: other languages, cultures, distributed engagement, assessment (machine graded or peer review), gather data, look at emerging crediting models (badges)
- MSU looked to Metropolitan Agriculture – new program opportunity, their specialty, international need
- Open content was a challenge (Creative Commons Attribution license)
- Used WordPress, Adobe Connect
- 160 hours in WordPress with another 2 months
October 10, 2012 – 9:00am
Ray Schroeder (University of Illinois – Springfield, US)
Michele Gribbins (University of Illinois – Springfield, US)
- no PPT! use webtools like Google Sites – worked OK… navigation and flow were awkward… what about a Google Docs Presentation?
- while not a workshop… there were some interesting discussions
October 10, 2012 – 12:00pm
Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw (Liberty University, US)
- no significant difference between eTexts and traditional texts
- etext users: exhibited different cognitive strategies, aggregated notes, significant impact on how they studied for the course, liked search features, portability, 6 month loan was a negative, some elements weren’t readable, navigation quality varied text to text, want to see more interactivity
Session topics worthy of mention:
- Rubrics – holistic vs. analytic, involve students in the creation of rubrics, start with observable and measurable outcomes, 4-8 criteria, use even number 2-6 achievement scales, list high to low, use percentages
- Simulations – Simwriter authoring software, traditional roles (writers, directors, actors, sound/film crews) can be accomplished with fewer people
- Gaming – check out Lee Sheldon, start with fun, grading was a hassle, instructor buy-in essential, used both cooperative and competitive games
Overall
- good use of pollanywhere – however give time to respond and reflect
- twitter applet to gather questions worked well in the sessions I saw it used
- QR codes everywhere
- over 34 Penn staters
- nice location: Disney World
- schedule of sessions was unwieldy and outdated – should have used sched.org or something similar
- initially at least, the electronic evaluations were accessible via QR code only
- ePoster sessions not well organized – improve with table numbers and list locations in the catalog