Friday, March 24
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
UTC
Palm Beach

Blogs, Blends, Boards, or Back to the Future: Building the Ultimate Online Learning Environment

Tutorial ID: 15621
  1. aaa
    Curt Bonk
    Indiana University and SurveyShare, Inc
  2. aaa
    Shufang Shi
    SUNY-Cortland
  3. aaa
    Tom Reynolds
    National University

Abstract: This fun packed session will focus on online community tools and courseware systems needed for intellectually and pedagogically rich, collaborative, and engaging online learning. It will include an interactive and engaging overview of current best practices in online learning pedagogy including motivational techniques, learning style ideas, and blended learning strategies. In addition, during the session, a new model will be presented for addressing online learning styles called the R2D2 method. Using this method, the presenters will detail dozens of techniques to address auditory, reflective, visual, and hands-on or kinesthetic learners. Do Generation X and Neo Millennial students want something different? Examples and ideas discussed in this session will include blogging, video streaming, simulations, field reflections, scenario learning, concept mapping tools, online journals, etc. Finally, in this session, participants will build their ultimate online learning environment. They will outline the types of online courseware systems and pedagogical strategies that are needed today.

Objectives

SESSION OBJECTIVES: 1. Share best practices in e-learning. 2. To become aware of the range of motivational techniques for online teaching and learning. 3. To understand the forms of blended learning in online environments. 4. Learn about the R2D2 method of learning styles for addressing auditory, reflective, visual, and kinesthetic or hands-on learners. 5. Discover a wide range of ways to address different learning preferences or ways to individualize the learning environment. 6. To reflect on what additional or better online tools or systems are needed for student motivation and retention. 7. To brainstorm or generate new systems and tools (the ultimate system?) 8. Make individual or organizational predictions of the future of e-learning in higher education and/or corporate settings. 9. Design ultimate online learning environments 10. Prepare and share strategic plans if administrator or action plans if instructor.

Topical Outline

Topical Outline of the Content/Workshop Overview Part I. Best Practices in e-learning a. Survey audience for their best practices b. Detail dozens of motivational, collaborative and interactive ideas online c. Detail dozens of blended learning strategies and examples d. The Generation X and Neo Millennial Students e. Present online learning style ideas a. The R2D2 Method of Learning Styles and Preferences a. Read (Auditory and Verbal Learners): examples and ideas b. Reflect (Reflective Learners): examples and ideas c. Display (Visual Learners): examples and ideas d. Do (Tactile, Kinesthetic, Exploratory Learners): examples and ideas e. Select top ten ideas can use activity Part II. Building the Online Learning Environment a. Reflect on the current state of e-learning systems and tools b. Discuss new tools needed. c. Point to the Future of E-Learning--Current trends in e-learning d. Audience predictions e. Strategic planning

Prerequisites

Intended Audience: Experience Level: Intermediate; Prerequisites: None This tutorial is intended for higher education faculty and teachers involved in distance education or online learning, online learning administrators, managers in government settings, decision makers, deans, and department chairs planning for or reflecting upon their online learning initiatives and strategic plans. It will also prove useful for those teaching or training in the trenches of online learning as well as instructional designers and e-learning evaluators. Suffice to say, anyone interested in emerging technologies or pedagogies will be interested in this session. In addition, those interested in how to turn research on e-learning into strategic plans should find this workshop highly appealing. It will not only help individuals map out their e-learning plans but also compare them to others.

Experience Level

Intermediate

Qualifications

Curt Bonk is a former accountant and CPA who is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. Dr. Bonk is also a Senior Research Fellow with the DOD’s Advanced Distributed Learning Lab. He has received the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program from the State of Indiana. Curt is President of CourseShare and SurveyShare (see http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/). He can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana. Shufang Shi is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York at Cortland. Shufang is also a Chief Researcher for CCC Confer; a state-wide e-conferencing project serving 109 California community colleges. This research project focuses on innovative applications of e-conferencing technology for instructional purposes. Shufang received her Ph.D. in instructional technology from the College of Education at Michigan State University. Her research interest includes teacher moderating and student engagement in synchronous e-conferencing, online facilitation, and technology integration. She can be contacted at Shis@cortland.edu and her personal homepage is at http://web.cortland.edu/shis/. Thomas Reynolds, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Teacher Education for National University in La Jolla, California. After earning his Doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he developed performance and instructional software applications while working at the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research. During the 1990’s, Tom served on the faculty at Texas A&M University where he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to lecture in Peru on web-based education. His current work at National University centers on performance and assessment teaching standards through online instruction.
Conference attendees are able to comment on papers, view the full text and slides, and attend live presentations. If you are an attendee, please login to get full access.
x