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A Collaborative to Explore Digital Teaching and Learning
Ravi Ravishanker, Wellesley College
Patrick Sellers, Davidson College
Liberal Arts Online: A Digital Teaching and Learning Collaborative
Share in ● Creation and production● Analysis, research, and reflection
Broad definition of online learning
LAO collaborativeformed
Initial meetings over the past year funded by Mellon Foundation
planning grants
first four liberal arts schools to join edX
Current LAO Collaborations
Regular MeetingsAgenda for May 11 LAO meeting at Wellesley College
8:30 Welcome from Kim Bottomly, Wellesley CollegePresident
8:45 Anant Agarwal, edX9:30 Session 1: Blended Italian course offered at multiple
institutions10:00 Break10:15 Session 2: Student Panel (virtual, 2 from each
institution)11:00 Session 3: Lightning talks: 2 great things from blended
course or MOOC11:15 Session 4: Brainstorm -- New Models for Ideal Joint
CourseNoon Lunch served12:15 Working lunch meeting including remote faculty:
Lessons learned from MOOCs
1:15 Breakout sessions (by Role): Planning joint courses● governance, curriculum committee, credit, divided
responsibility, etc. (senior staff)● collaboration, strategy, others on campus,
resources/time management (faculty)● design/development/support (everyone else)2:00
Report out2:15 Break2:30 Consortial Data Scientist presentation3:00 Breakout session (by topic):
● Data Analysis and Assessment● Resource Sharing among institutions● or continue with previous breakout topic
3:45 Report out/next steps/wrap up4:00 Depart
Data scientist and dashboard
Data scientist
Daniel Seaton, VPAL Research Scientist
Harvard University
The dashboard
Jointly Taught Courses
2015-2016 Academic Year, Davidson and Wellesley● “Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability”
● Prof. Eriberto Lozada (Davidson), Prof.
Jay Turner (Wellesley)
● Cross-institutional components
○ online discussion forum
○ instructional videos (produced by
both professors)
○ case studies
○ each professor visited the other
campus one time during the
semester
● “Writing In and Out of Place”
● Prof. Van Hillard (Davidson), Prof. Justin
Armstrong
● Cross-institutional components
○ video class sessions and discussions
○ students reading and commenting
on essays of students at the other
institution (via Google docs)
Next steps for the LAO Collaborative● Expand jointly taught courses
● Develop innovative MOOCs
● Continue regular meetings
● Invite three additional institutions (Trinity, Smith, and Harvey Mudd)
Overall AssessmentWhat was easy?
● Interest among administrators,
staff, and faculty already involved
● Ideas
● Coordination
What was hard?
● Interest among broader faculty
● Prioritization and follow through
● Resources
Questions?
How collaborate?
Imagine your own collaborations around online learningIf you wanted to collaborate on online learning, what area would you choose? (Please
write down your answer.) Possibilities include:
● Build online courses
● Jointly teach courses
● Develop shared online content for blended learning
● Develop shared tools (e.g., dashboards, video production, analytics)
● Build an online community to share ideas
● Other?
Discussion questions● What one project most interests your group?
Discussion questions● What one project most interests your group?
● What excites you about the project?
Discussion questions● What one project most interests your group?
● What excites you about the project?
● Who would be the ideal partners? Why?
Discussion questions● What one project most interests your group?
● What excites you about the project?
● Who would be the ideal partners? Why?
● What are the two biggest challenges of the project?
Discussion questions● What one project most interests your group?
● What excites you about the project?
● Who would be the ideal partners? Why?
● What are the two biggest challenges of the project?
● How might you overcome those challenges?
Thank you!Please send questions and suggestions to:
Ravi Ravishanker ([email protected])
(Twitter: @ravishan; https://blogs.wellesley.edu/ravisblog)
Patrick Sellers ([email protected])
