Liz Glowa's List: Online teaching and instructional design

"Oddly enough, many instructional designers and curriculum developers overlook the use and value of the discussion thread over other social learning options. I provided some examples below:"

"The facilitator makes it possible for other people to work together, to learn and to reach their goals."

"Facilitator Key Competencies
What are the qualities of a Master Facilitator? Master Facilitators bring PAC3E to every engagement."

"Given that coherence and lucidity are key to understanding our world, how do educators teach in networks? For educators, control is being replaced with influence. Instead of controlling a classroom, a teacher now influences or shapes a network.

The following are roles teacher play in networked learning environments:

1. Amplifying
2. Curating
3. Wayfinding and socially-driven sensemaking
4. Aggregating
5. Filtering
6. Modelling
7. Persistent presence"

"Resources and Downloads for Online Learning
Free tools, web links and other resources to help bring online learning to your school.
By Edutopia Staff"

"The purpose of this page is to give online teachers usable Icebreakers for synchronous or asynchronous activities. The activities on this page have been developed by Boise State University students in an Advanced Online Teaching Methods Class (EdTech 523). Listed below are links to several different Icebreaker Activities appropriate for all grade levels from Kindergarten up to 12th Grade."

"As teacher education departments build pre-service preparation programs, in-service professional developmentopportunities, and state-wide endorsements and certications,they will need to do so with a rm grasp of existing standardsand practices within the eld. This paper describes severalmajor attempts to form standards and best practices. In doingso, it also explores the research backing and claries the needfor additional research to support the development of effec-tive practices to benet K-12 students. The paper also high-lights the various roles future teachers might play in virtualschools and the associated standards that would guide their education."

"Survey participants identified four key factors as "extremely important" in building a successful K-12 online education program:

Reporting and progress monitoring tools that enable teachers to assess student comprehension and identify those that need additional help;
Teacher who are readily available to assist struggling students;
Educators specially trained to teach in an online environment;
Rigorous curriculum, designed to accommodate different learning styles, that keeps students focused and engaged. "

"eLearning Roadmap: Creating Online PD That Works!"

"“2013 Trends In Online Learning Virtual, Blended And Flipped Classrooms”

Report Cover2013 Trends in Online Learning Virtual, Blended and Flipped Classrooms highlights the latest Speak Up data with a particular focus on the role that online learning strategies can play within school and district digital conversions. With the impending implementation of the Common Core State Standards and other new standards, the timing is right to tap into the insights of key education stakeholders to explore both the benefits of online learning as well as how to leverage these tools and resources effectively to transform the learning experience.

Since 2007, Project Tomorrow has partnered with Blackboard Inc. to create a series of annual reports that focus on the year to year trends in the use of online learning to change the classroom learning paradigm through an in-depth analysis of the latest Speak Up national findings. In this latest update report, we examine the trends using an inside-out perspective on the classroom and the use of a variety of online learning strategies with students. In particular, we focus this year on the insights and experiences of four key stakeholders: administrators who have implemented online courses within their schools and districts, online learning teachers in virtual, blended or flipped classrooms, parents with personal online learning experiences, and the students who continue to be enamored with the potential of online learning to transform their educational experience.

Key trends highlighted in the report include:

43% - Percent of district administrators that are now offering a variety of online courses to meet diverse student needs
60% - Percent of flipped learning teachers who believe online learning motivates students more
89% - Percent of parents who want their child in a class where mobile devices are used
Administrators now value online tools for teacher learning opportunities in addition to student learning
Virtual, blended and flipped learning teachers are using MORE digital content with student than traditional teachers
Parents who have taken an online class for work expect their children to have access to similar learning opportunities
Students see online learning as a more personal, controlled learning process

Click here to download a copy of the report from the Blackboard, Inc. website."

"First Principles of Instruction
M. David Merrill
For the past several years the author has been
reviewing instructional design theories in an
attempt to identify prescriptive principles that
are common to the various theories. This paper
is a preliminary report of the principles that
have been identified by this search. Five first
principles are elaborated: (a) Learning is
promoted when learners are engaged in
solving real-world problems. (b) Learning is
promoted when existing knowledge is
activated as a foundation for new knowledge.
(c) Learning is promoted when new knowledge
is demonstrated to the learner. (d) Learning is
promoted when new knowledge is applied by
the learner. (e) Learning is promoted when
new knowledge is integrated into the learner
’
s
world"

"Below is my categorization of the most important elearning paradigms as of 2014.
eLearning Paradigms 2014

Content Presenter (enables content to be presented to learners)
Comprehension Tester (enables learners' knowledge to be tested--and feedback provided)
Practice Provider (enables learners' decision-making to be tested--and feedback provided)
Performance Supporter (enables performers to be prompted toward action)
Reminder (enables learners or performers to be reminded to learn and/or take action)
Social Augmentation Provider (enables learners to learn from and with each other)
Gamification Provider (provides motivational incentives and behavioral prompts to action)
Mobile Learning Provider (provides learning and/or performance support through mobile technology)
Data Utilizer (enables data collection and data-based interventions)
Video Provider (enables video to be utilized in various ways)
Learning Organizer (provides organizational structure around learning opportunities)
Personalizer (enables content or prompting to be individualized or tailored)
Learning-Delivery Augmenter (enables easy delivery of content or prompting)
Context-Based Triggerer (enables content or prompting to be delivered depending on context)
Cost Saver (enables learning to be delivered at a lower cost)"

72 Tips for Using Media to Engage and Teach"

"Therefore, state and district policymakers should establish clear policies. Policymakers have options when creating copyright rules, including:

If the policy is designed to have the teacher be the author of the educational resources she creates, take the position that the teacher is the author under the teacher exception and enter into a written agreement with the teacher If a state or district takes this approach, the state or district could also require that the teacher grant it a license to use, and to authorize others to use, the materials.
Alternatively, if a state or district takes the position that educator-created materials are works made for hire, it can grant licenses to educators in their own works so that they can use, share, redistribute, and refine educator-created materials. In other words, the employer retains the copyright but provides the creator of the content and others with a license so that reuse, revision, and redistribution rights are defined upfront.
States and districts can choose to license other state- and district-owned content, where the state or district owns the copyright in that work (such as teacher training materials), as open educational resources (OERs).

For more on the discussion on who owns teacher-created digital content, including licensing options under Creative Commons and 7 recommendations from SETDA on how states can introduce policies on copyright, read the full brief."

This title sounds like an impending trashing of the traditions of ADDIE, but I believe it simply places entrenched methodology in a more current and responsive context. While it seems that many are trashing old school ADDIE, I would argue that ADDIE is alive and well; in fact, is at the core of any effort to design and deliver a training solution. Agile design is catching a great deal of attention at all the conferences I’ve spoken at in 2013 but when you get right down to it, what we find in the iterative attributes of “agile” methods are incremental applications of ADDIE."

Checklists for SAM

Recordings of 11 webinars offered by NCAT in 2013 and 2014 are available below. Each features an NCAT Redesign Scholar, the project leader of a highly successful course redesign, describing the redesign project with a particular focus on its distinguishing characteristics. "

Webinar design

"This guide is organized in two main sections. Section I provides our working definition of distance
education and anatomizes its many modes and models, dissecting their strengths and weaknesses in
terms of instructional quality and effectiveness. Section II focuses on methods, collating best practices
and lessons learned about teaching and learning from successful global distance education models. The
guide also contains a glossary of terms, a reference section for further Web-based information on distance
learning programs and approaches, and an extensive bibliography of the sources cited within the guide.
Where available, we provide website addresses for every program discussed here. We also provide the URLs
of websites that offer
free
content, but not those of commercial websites, which can typically be accessed
online by searching for them by name."

"How Teachers Are Learning: Professional Development Remix
Jun 1 · FREE

A detailed guidebook to help administrators find tools that fit the needs of their teachers and their professional development strategy.

This report contains:

Product Reports. We have included analyses on 28 of the latest tools in personalized professional development for administrators to sort, mark up, and compare side-by-side.
Our "PD Learning Cycle" Framework. We share our methodology for comparing how products can fit together to complement one another.
Comparative data. We provide data that allow administrators to compare purpose of each tool, the amount of time teachers must spend on each tool and which tools give them credit for their work.
Powerful insights. We share emerging insights on the products currently available. We also identify the emerging sets of valuable products and features, as well as tips for successfully implementation