webinar - using brightspace to design and develop scholarly activities
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Department of Family MedicineTeaching and Learning Services
Using Brightspace to Design and Develop Scholarly ActivitiesSUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY
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A little about us…
Diane Maratta
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Dr. Tamara Carver
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Poll HOW CONFIDENT DO YOU FEEL USING BRIGHTSPACE?
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Poll WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR THIS WEBINAR?
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Driving Question How can educators motivate students to participate
in research and scholarly activity?
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Background
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Background Residents are required to complete Scholarly Activities
Support differs across the 9 McGill University clinical sites
Result is an unsatisfactory learning experience
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Background Have no interest in research and find this component of the residency program to be useless and are therefore unmotivated to complete their Scholarly Activity.
Two years ago, one of the clinical sites made their course available 'online' by using Brightspace solely as a repository to store all of their documentation.
Residents were not engaged or motivated to go through the abundant material uploaded into Brightspace.
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CLEAR NEED TO INCREASE MOTIVATION!!!
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In March of 2015, I was assigned to this project to apply active learning strategies to the content.
I wanted to know more about the Learning Management System and the educational technologies available at McGill University and reached out to Teaching and Learning Services and consulted with a Learning Technology Consultant.
Goal: self-paced and self-directed to increase motivation
Rationale forDesign and Development
Mission StatementTeaching and Learning Services strives to make McGill a community of people who love to teach and are excited to learn. In collaboration with students, faculty and staff, we create engaging environments and provide leadership and support for meaningful educational experiences for all.
www.mcgill/ca/tls
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Some projects we work on:• Graduate and Undergraduate professional and
supervision skills• MOOCs• Teaching excellence• Portfolios• Course Design• Pedagogical consultations
• Course Evaluations• Teaching and Learning Spaces• Educational Technologies
Teaching and Learning Services
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Educational Technologies
Two Learning Technology Consultants that serve the McGill Community
Our driving mission:
• How can we, as a teaching and learning support center, help instructors maximize the Brightspace platform and other technologies to enhance student learning?
How do we do this?• Individual consultations• Workshops• Monthly webinars• Ed-tech pilots
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The Journey…http://jo-online.vsb.bc.ca/blogs/jo/keller/?page_id=8603
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f2f course offered at one clinical site
3 online pilots with clinician supervisors
1 credit optional summer course
Mandatory course for all students
Course Development
Specialized online course for clinical
supervisors
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The Course
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Course Elements SCORM video packages
Short videos with engaging and interactive content and activities
Pop up quizzes in SCORM video files
Several videos with the instructors visible
Quiz tool
Discussion tool
Assignment tool and audio feedback
Dig Deeper folder
Educational technologies used: ◦ Brightspace◦ Techsmith Camtasia (Mac)◦ Adobe Captivate 8
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Making it Easier to Learn
Became important to:
• Structure and sequence the content in a way that modeled the research process
• Chunk information in bite-size pieces
• Have students interact with the content in multiple ways
Full Table of Contents and Quiz Engagement
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Enhancing theonline experience
Sidebar Table of Contents
Became important to:• Personalize the online
experience• Make it visually appealing• Guide students through the
course and materialsCustomized Homepage
Supporting the Student Experience within
Brightspace
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Technical Videos
Discussion Forum
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Video
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Enhancing MotivationVisual Connection to Instructor
Became important to:• Connect with the student• Build Rapport• Engage the student • Use a variety of modalities
• Use of pop up quizzes in SCORM video files
• Use of the Quiz tool• Use of the Discussion tool • Use of assignment tool and
audio feedback
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The word on the street We recently presented the online course to over 200 residents in a short presentation.
Great interest!!
They loved:
Self paced and self directedIt looked funThe discussion forums connecting with PhD mentorsOnline community because they are very isolated
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Current-ly
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Future Steps
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Challenges and Successes
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Challenges Buy-in from resident supervisors and directors to standardize (content and assessment) across sites
Motivate residents
Convince Instructors of the value of using Brightspace for true online learning
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Challenges
Many think of the LMS mainly as a repository for files and readings, rather than see it as a
learning environment.
“Convince Instructors of the value of using Brightspace for true online learning”…
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Successes and Lessons Learned
Engage stakeholders (supervisors of residents, department heads, student leaders) in the development of the course ex: workshops piloting the material
Importance of instructional design for self-paced and self-directed learning to build motivation
Effective sequencing of material with surveys, videos, reading material; and technology decisions
Importance of the relationship with the Instructional Designer and creating a Champion within the Department.
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Generated requests and discussions of online learning
Helped identify the knowledge gaps and needs of instructors making these requests
Given us examples to showcase
Opened up opportunities to pilot LTI’s
Successes and Lessons Learned
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Building Bridges
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Poll WHAT ARE YOUR KEY TAKE-AWAYS TODAY?
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Thank you!Dr. Tamara Carver
Department of Family Medicine, McGill University
5858 Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, Suite 300
Montréal, Quebec H3S 1Z1 [email protected]
Diane Maratta
McGill Teaching and Learning Services
3415 McTavish Street, Suite MS-12 Montreal, Quebec, H3A 0C8 [email protected]