How to Earn a Black Belt in Technology-Enhanced Instruction

Technology Teaching Professor’s Conference 2014

Eric Kyle, Vicky Morgan, Becky Hoss, Virginia Tufano

Not Present: MJ Petersen, Jason Schlesiger

College of Saint Mary, Omaha, NE

October 11, 2014 1

How to Earn a Black Belt…• Welcome and Overview

• Rationale• Desire to stay competitive, requiring faculty who are qualified

• Possible resource limitations at small private schools

• Upcoming launch of new online programs

• Technology as a tool in quality instruction…more importantly as a means to enhance instruction

• WebEx Intro• How to log in (please ask for help if needed)

• Using the basic features, particularly the Chat to: ask questions, share resources, and offer insights (we will be monitoring these and will try to share them as they come up)

• The Chat text will then be available to you after the session2

Overall Description

• Module 1

• General Introduction

• Impact of Technology on Education

• Module 2

• Design & Development Processes

• Thinking Systematically

• Module 3

• Implementation Considerations

• Creating Course Components

• Blooming Progress

• Seeking to foster progress for faculty across Bloom’s3

Blooming Progress…

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Blooming Progress

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Module 1• Bloom’s Level

• Remembering & Understanding

• Description

• General Intro/Overview of Tech, Specifically Related to Online Learning

• Helping students to use tech

• LMS usage

• Examples of Activities

• Resources to understand where students are

• Glossary of terms quiz for faculty

• Group Discussions/Activities

• Other activities to engage faculty for this module?

• Where to put tech tools? All at once or distributed? 6

Module 2• Bloom’s Level

• Applying, Analyzing

• Description

• Instructional Design Strategies, Evidence-Based Practice

• Course Design Elements: Teaching & Learning Theories, Objectives, Activities/Pedagogies, Assessments

• Examples of Activities

• Faculty applying best practices to assessments, assignments, etc

• Objective-Activity-Assessment Links

• Group Discussions/Activities

• Brainstorming Objective-Activity-Assessment link activity to go with these modules

• Other activities to do for this module?7

Module 3• Bloom’s Level

• Evaluating, Creating

• Description

• Course organization principles

• Privacy, accessibility, copyright

• Ongoing professional development

• Course Creation

• Examples of Activities

• Peer evaluations

• Creating course components

• Group Discussions/Activities

• How do you assess the competency of instructors and their courses?

• What strategies do you use to help them to continually improve?8

Post-Module• Ongoing Development work

• Lunch & Learns

• Conferences

• eLearning Modules

• Developmental – Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

• Continued Mentoring, Assessments, and Practicums

• Distributed across peers (ie, not a 1-to-1 mentoring system)

• Communal

• Incorporation into a Knowledge-Building Community

• Open Course Sharing, Learning Object Repositories, etc

• Panel and Open Discussion Format for Lunch & Learns

• Residential “Experts” and “Super-Users”

• Advanced Modules on Teaching, Learning, & Technology9

Closing

• Summary of Discussions

• Contact Info:

• Becky Hoss (rhoss@csm.edu)

• Eric Kyle (ekyle@csm.edu)

• Vicky Morgan (vmorgan@csm.edu)

• Virginia Tufano (vtufano@csm.edu)

• Collaboration Continued…

• Sharing of our resources

• Sharing of your resources?

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