Engaging Students

in

Online Courses

Susan MircovichKenai Peninsula College

University of Alaska Anchorage

scmircovich@kpc.alaska.edu

Session Objectives

• Create activities to engage students in your online lecture and laboratory courses

Agenda• First - lecture examples from chem

• Second - lab examples from chem, physics and A&P

What is “active learning”?

• Students engage material: talking, writing, reading, reflecting, or questioning

• Students are doing things - opposite of passively watching lectures

• Students are engaged and involved in the learning process

• Active Learning: learning occurs teacher-to-student, student-to-teacher, and student-to-student.

• Involves cognitive activity

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“active learning” components =

Student – content

Student– faculty

Student– student

Interaction

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“active learning” components =

Student – content

Student– faculty

Student– student

Interaction games, puzzles, Learning Objects, self-check quizzes, video lectures with handouts/worksheets, assignments, animations, problems, case studies, HW problems, student created content, essays

introductions, study groups, group assignments – optional or mandatory, DB, Wiki report comments, email, phone, games, synchronous meetings, test questions on student content, LAB work!

DB, recorded introduction, personalized feedback on assignments and tests – written, audio and video, phone, synchronous sessions, prompt email replies, surveys and feedback

Online Lecture Do’s

Your voice Readable Interactive

Images Branch Quiz

Chunk

Online Lecture Dont’s

PPTs w/no audio > 15 minute Reread the

textbook

Outline only of f2f lecture

Folder of documents

ExamplesInside Chem 103...

• Announcements• Lecture recording/handouts• LO in Chapter Content• Weekly quizzes and assignments• Formative Survey/Results• Wiki Sign up, reports and comments• Discussion Board• Elive “recording”

More Examples - Intro to Org &Bio

• Protein Wiki = student created content

• Use for exam questions!

Example

More Examples - General Chem II

• DB – students help each other. Students can subscribe for email notifications

Example

Distance Labs = any combination   – students work with kits

– online interactive simulations

– robotics to control equipment/do experiments, take measurements

– any above with on campus combo  

At home

Virtual

Remote

Hybrid/Blended

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University of Minnesota Center for Allied Health Programs*

• Uses “blended” model:– distance learning, classroom

experiences, experiential education– supported by technology; simulations,

videoconferencing, or teleconferencing

* “Blended Learning: Emerging Best Practices in Allied Health Workforce” Development Journal of Allied Health, Winter 2010, Vol 39, No 4 (in your packet)

Labs Agenda

• Virtual + 2 day on campus Hybrid Chem 103L KPC Murdoch and Roper

• At-home Physics 115 KPC Andy Veh

• At-home + virtual Biology 111 (Anatomy and Phys) Kodiak College Dr. Suzanne Buie

Maryna Roper KPC  Liena Murdoch UAA

Both ALSO teach on-campus 103, 104, 105, 106 Labs

Survey of Chemistry LabsIntro to Organic and BiochemistryGeneral Chemistry I and II Labs

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KPC Hybrid Lab Instructors

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Lab Manual convert

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Prior to Lab Lab Assignment After Lab•Reading assign•Instructor video lectures•Learning Objects•PreLab Questions

•Lab manual/ worksheet with instructions•Virtual labs/ simulations

•post-lab questions in Bb

•Reading assign•Instructor PPts•PreLab Questions

•Lab manual•On campus lab experiments

•Lab reports•Post lab questions

Student feedback/support using EMAIL and DBOn CAMPUS

ONLINE

KPC Hybrid Lab Chem 103

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LO

Content/Activities

Assessment

Chem 103L KPC

Example

Virtual Chem Lab

http://www.chemcollective.org/

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Content/Activities

Virtual Chem Lab

Example

Assessment

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Assessment

Example

20http://jersey.uoregon.edu/

LO

Content/Activities

Chem 103L KPC

Virtual Gas Laws

Example

• Back on After completing this lab you will be able to: write the correct symbols or names of some elements

• categorize elements as metals or non metals• identify chemical families in the periodic table• determine the mass number, atomic number, and number of

protons, neutrons and electrons given the complete symbol of an atom

• interpret the trends in atomic radii, electronegativity and density within a family and a period of the periodic table

• write an electron configuration for an element• describe the importance of radioactive isotopes in medical

diagnosis techniques 21

LO

Content/Activities

Chem 103L KPC

Interactive Periodic Table

Example

Associate Professor for Physics, Math, and Astronomy, KPC

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•Also teaches F2F class.

•Same experiments with some equipment the same, some different. •F2F turn in the same worksheets/assessments.

Andy Veh Physics KPC

Andy Veh Physics 90% At Home

Prior to Lab Lab Assignment After Lab•video instructions•posting first data on the discussion board•pre-lab questions

•lab manual with instructions•student’s lab report

•post-lab questions•photos, videos of student’s lab experiment (as proof and for evaluation)

• Student support using EMAIL and ELIVE

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Andy Veh Physics

• Confirm the first order approximation for the period of a simple pendulum

• By measuring the periods for various pendulum lengths, determine the acceleration due to gravity g. (Do not use a published value for g in your calculations – the objective is that you will measure and compute it yourself.)

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LO

Andy Veh Physics KPC

Pendulum Experiment

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyF0sqGtxw&list=PLB61658E5111AFB92&index=9&feature=plpp_video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffRgYI8g_4g&list=PLB61658E5111AFB92&index=10&feature=plpp_video

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Content/Activities

Andy Veh Physics KPC

Andy shows how to set up the lab:

Andy shows how to do the calculations:

Pendulum Experiment - cont

  

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Assessment

Andy Veh Physics KPC

Content/Activities

Pendulum Experiment - cont

Example

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Assessment

Andy Veh Physics KPC

Pendulum Experiment - cont

Example

   

28*Adapted from NC State Univ/NSFAndy Veh Physics KPC

Pendulum Experiment - cont

Example

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Assessment

Assessment

Content/Activities

Andy Veh Physics KPC

Physics Force Table Experiment

Example

At home + Virtual Chemistry Dave Wilson Department of Natural

Sciences Parkland College, Ill

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Example

Virtual Chem Labs: Oregon State

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http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate/online-general-chemistry/labs.htm

Oregon State University

Example

• Advanced Doctorate in Physical Therapy with a specialty in Sports and Orthopaedics.

• Kodiak College, Faculty Chair; Health Sciences• Owner of Arctic Physical Therapy• Clinician, Clinical Coordinator and Instructor

• Distance courses include: • Anatomy and Physiology I and II• Core Concepts in Health Science• Medical Terminology• Human Biology*

• * Developed with NANSLO

32Anatomy and Physiology UAS Slide by Dr. Suzanne Buie

Dr. Suzanne Buie

Viewing the Course

• UAA Faculty Technology Showcase at:http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/facultytechnologycenter/showcase/

• To view this course, please go to: “

Tour of a copy of Dr. Buie's A & P II Blackboard shell (authentication required)” on the page above

33Anatomy and Physiology UAS Slide by Dr. Suzanne Buie