What Works and What Doesn’t in Online/Hybrid Teaching

What Works and What Doesn’t in Online/Hybrid Teaching

Presented at Loyola Marymount UniversityMay 31, 2016

Presented by: Phil Hill@PhilOnEdTech

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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

Source: http://www.edmunds.com/suv/

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

MythFolklore

Liberty University 101

Public Speaking

US History

Duke Sample Elements

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: phil@mindwires.com

Web Site: http://e-literate.tv/

e-Literate Blog: http://mfeldstein.com/