what works and what doesn’t in online/hybrid teaching
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What Works and What Doesn’t in Online/Hybrid Teaching
Presented at Loyola Marymount UniversityMay 31, 2016
Presented by: Phil Hill@PhilOnEdTech
Moving Past Hype & Anti-Hype:
Entering new world of online & blended learning
“We think of it like a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read
your mind and figure out what your strengths and
weaknesses are, down to the percentile.”
- J Ferreira, Knewton
"Technology can support teachers in the application of the relevant principles across a group of students with
high variability. In fact, technology can help tailor lessons to the situation in extremely powerful ways.
“The instrumentation of the online learning environment to sense the student experience and the ability to
customize content on a student-by-student basis may be the key to enabling teachers to provide differentiated instruction, informed by a solid foundation in cognitive science. Modern online courses and delivery platforms
already implement some of these concepts, and provide a framework for others."
Source: https://oepi.mit.edu/final-report
"In particular, we recommend the creation of thinking communities to continuously evaluate the kinds of
education reforms proposed here, and the identification and development of change agents and role models in implementing these reforms. Here, we refer to change
agents as groups of experts collaborating toward a common end, rather than just individual visionaries, and role models as successful groups and institutions that
are willing to pilot new, thoughtfully designed approaches."
Source: https://oepi.mit.edu/final-report
Ignore This
Don’t Do This
Be This
Student Views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=JAez7z0bL_s
Experience:In online & hybrid, attitude, concerns,
questions
• https://pollev.com/mindwires
• https://pollev.com/surveys/yJMD5tRSJ
Historical Overview: Focus on issues raised in
discussion
If history of universities were compressed to 15-week term . . .
• First university - 15 weeks ago
• First textbook in US - 6 weeks ago
• First public US university - 4.5 weeks ago
• First distance learning course - 3 weeks ago
• Carnegie hour - 2 weeks ago
• First online course - 2.5 days ago
• Approval of competencies - 1 day ago
• First cMOOC - 16 hours ago
• First xMOOC - 6 hours ago
While there will be (significant) unbundling
around the edges, the bigger potential impact is how existing colleges and
universities allow technology-enabled change to enter the mainstream of the academic
mission
Fall 2014 IPEDS Data
Fully-Online vs.
Mixed-Course
Fall 2014 IPEDS Profile
Source: WCET IPEDS reporthttp://wcet.wiche.edu/sites/default/files/
WCETDistanceEducationEnrollmentReport2016.pdf
Source: Grade Level Report http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/read/survey-reports-2014/
"There's a tsunami coming. [But] I can't tell you exactly how it's going to break."
John Hennessy, Stanford
"We are at the beginning of a technology-led revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of tools that allows interactive learning online"
Drew Faust, HarvardL. Rafael Reif, MIT
Two Sides of the Chasm• Innovators & Early Adopters: Willing to take risks, influential
• Early Majority: Much slower adoption, need holistic solutions
• Late Majority: Approach an innovation with a high degree of skepticism and after the majority of society has adopted the innovation
“The asynchronous, individualized nature of online learning allows differentiation of course
content. Students can control a course’s pace to fit their learning styles and abilities.”
“Our research found that interactive course software that provides instantaneous feedback
could be particularly effective in improving student performance in online courses. ”
PPIC, Successful OnlineCourses in California’s
Community Colleges
Platforms Matter
Source: http://beforeihadkids.com/tag/venn-diagram/#.VW9CRVxViko
Source: http://whatabeautifulmess.org/2012/05/31/me-and-my-badass-mini-van/
Source: http://www.jokeroo.com/pictures/funny/1015966.html
Source: http://lolheaven.com/is-the-air-conditioning-in-your-minivan-broken-try-this/
Source: http://www.mhtwheels.com/mht-luxury-alloy-gallery-vehicle
Video Case Studies:e-Literate TV, others,
hear faculty and students
ASU Professor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FAlaeFTpXzQ
Middlebury Professor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=udc3OMyE4Hs
Best Practices:Formative assessment,
reach back row, etc
What Have We Learned?
• Online education takes investment, time
• Very important to target student groups
• Student success rates can be lower than traditional
• Connection to instructors and to peers is important
• Often requires team-based course design
Groups:Explore example
courses, what you like and don’t like
Public Speaking
Questions:What did you
like or dislike?
Bring It Together
What if every student had a tutor?
• Adaptive learning systems mimic some subset of the teaching feedback loop.
• Some aspects are easier to mimic faithfully than others.
• Most adaptive software provides feedback to the teacher.
We are in the midst of an inflection point in higher
education driven by mainstream adoption,
different platform designs, and moving beyond the digitization of traditional
classroom
Phil Hill: [email protected]
Web Site: http://e-literate.tv/
e-Literate Blog: http://mfeldstein.com/