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A Pinch of this and a Pinch of That!

A Pinch of this and a Pinch of That!. Student Readiness by Randall S. Upchurch Director, Center for Distributed Learning University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida. Didactic Education versus Edutainment !. Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching

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A Pinch of this and a Pinch of That!

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  1. A Pinch of this and a Pinch of That! Student Readiness by Randall S. Upchurch Director, Center for Distributed Learning University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida

  2. Didactic Education versus Edutainment! • Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching • If you think that student readiness to learn is a given…thinkagain. • Have you ever witnessed IM’ing, IPod’ing or other forms of electronic diversions during your course? • Or worse yet….students start surfing once the lecture gets boring! (Dziuban, Moskal, Brophy) Notes from Dziuban, Moskal, Brophy, and Shea. Technology-Enhanced Education and Millennial Students in Higher Education. Unpublished manuscript.

  3. Much Ado About Something • Reduce ambiguity by providing more defined learning environments with fully developed expectations that minimize anxiety and the disengagement that results from it. • Facilitate an authentic sense of student value by creating an environment that fosters recognition, reward, and respect. Notes from Dziuban, Moskal, Brophy and Shea. Technology-Enhanced Education and Millennial Students in Higher Education.

  4. Much Ado About Something • Reduce ambivalent feelings toward higher education that are a result not only from their perceived lack of relevance, mixed beliefs that face-to-face courses are the gold standard for education, but also their diminished sense of cohesiveness in a continuously pluralistic educational landscape.

  5. Much Ado About Something • Help them understand the rules of educational engagement so that they perceive the present experience as fairer than what they experience in more passive learning environments. • Increase the possibility that they experience individually responsive learning environments.

  6. Much Ado About Something • Increase the quality and speed of their interactions with peers and instructors. • Offer freedom from excessively large face-to-face sections that diminish their opportunities for creativity, engagement, and empowerment.

  7. Example of Support Services • Learning Online • Teaching Online • Essentials • ADL5000 • IDL6543

  8. Student Prompters • Advanced Course Organizer • Protocols • SPA3471a • Focused organizers • SOW3203b • DMB3 & DMB4

  9. Guiding Student Engagement • David Segal’s Pharmacology course • The Case of Kit • Constantly changing scenarios, behavioral outcomes, drug interactions • Moves the learner from a passive to an active role • Fosters a learning community • Fosters responsibility, interaction and timely feedback • Moves learner to a position of being very fluent in information collection, analysis and dissemination • DMB1, DMB2, DMB3, DMB 4,DMB5, DMB6, DMB7

  10. Guiding Student Engagement • Joseph Holland’s course • “It is very difficult to move from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side" but that is the best way to describe the difference.” • “Teaching on-line requires that one begin to understand how a student learns and create activities that engage the student in finding, analyzing, synthesizing and communicating.” • Scavenger hunt • assign a problem to a group of not more than 4 students who pool their skills and knowledge base to arrive at a solution in a set period of time

  11. Getting into the Student’s Zone • To Millennial or not to Millennial (Jay Brophy) • Getting into their zone by embracing technology in the educational setting • ACME Regional Health System • Students get involved in ACME • Learning is comfortable • Learning is focused • Student 2 Student and Student 2 Faculty interaction increases • DMB1-7

  12. Ramping Up • Course Starter Pack • Trial quiz • Pre-test of information literacy • DMB1

  13. Student to Student • Collaborative/Cooperative Learning Groups ENC3311f • Problem Solving MAE6338a • Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) • Discussions GEY5007a and Linda P. • Course Mail • Chat

  14. Student to Faculty Readiness • Learning Contracts • Learning Contract • Learner Choice • Learner Choice

  15. Shaping Student Readiness for Content • Case Study GEY5007a • Tutorials RTV3000c • Real Audio/Real Video • Communicative disorders SPA3471a • Assessment • Self Test HFT4866aHFT3273a • Pretest LIN4680 • Formative Evaluation EDF6432a • Summative Evaluation NUR4812a

  16. And then there are fun things that serve as a readiness tool…. • Diner Dash

  17. Redesign Alliance Conference Participants • Thank you for listening!

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