Designing Online Resources to Enhance In-Class Interactions
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The document discusses using Kolb's learning cycle model to design online resources that enhance in-class interactions. It shares examples of how the authors applied this model at their universities to develop online modules that help optimize face-to-face class time. The goals are to examine Kolb's model for designing learning environments, share examples of applying it to develop flexible online tutorials, and promote discussion of its applicability at other institutions.
Designing Online Resources to Enhance In-Class Interactions
- 1. Designing Online Resources to Enhance In-Class Interactions David Wright, Writing Specialist & Mike Winiski, Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Furman University Jeremy Donald, Faculty Technology Liaison, Trinity University NITLE Seminar September 20, 2012
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- 3. Goals 1) Examine Kolb’s Learning Cycle as model for designing learning environments (whether physical or digital) that set the stage for dynamic, rigorous, and robust in-class interactions 2) Share examples of how we applied this model to develop flexible online modules to help optimize face-to-face time 3) Promote dialog about the applicability of this model at participant institutions
- 4. Desired Learners I want my students to show up to class . . .
- 5. “Reversing the Flow” “That is, we start in practice, and practice drives us to content. Or, more likely, the optimal way to learn is reciprocally or spirally between practice and content.” —Randall Bass, “Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education” Key: Developing pedagogies that blend practice and content, both in and out of the classroom.
- 6. Traditional Writing Instruction Model • Give assignment. • Students write and submit essays. • Instructors grade essays and give feedback, which sometimes includes specific writing instruction. • Handbooks mostly function as remedial or supplementary resource.
- 7. Workshop Writing Model • Give assignment. • Students write and submit drafts for workshop. • Class workshops essays together, which sometimes includes specific writing instruction. • Students revise and resubmit essays for final evaluation. • Handbooks still mostly function as remedial or supplementary resource.
- 8. “Reversing the Flow” with Digital Tutorials • Provides instructors with high-quality, targeted instructional materials. • Blends writing “content” lessons (e.g. “Writing Effective Thesis Statements) with the actual practice of drafting. • Allows instructors to decide how and when to incorporate the tutorials into their classes.
- 9. Tutorials in Richmond’s “Writer’s Web” Thesis Statement Video Page: http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/th esis2.html Thesis Statement Exercises: http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/th esisexercise.html
- 10. Assumptions and Notes • We drink / sip the experiential learning Kool-Aid; • We didn’t invent this; • It’s just a model, but the simplification can be useful.
- 12. The Learner’s View Experiencing Applying Examining Explaining *denotes student experience
- 13. Social Media in the Workplace (Business Writing Class) • Examine the role of social media in our professional and personal lives and its impact on how we communicate with one another • Identify traps as well as potential upsides of social media in our professional lives and develop strategies for optimizing its use
- 14. The Learner’s View Experiencing Applying Examining Explaining
- 16. Experiencing Applying Examining Explaining
- 18. Experiencing Applying Examining Explaining
- 19. You’ve been working for a company for several years. During a strategy planning session, the topic of Facebook comes up. The technology doesn’t seem to be a fit for any of the company initiatives, so the group moves on to other topics of discussion. You’re an avid user of Facebook and connect with family, friends, and several co-workers with whom you feel close. You get home that evening, log into email, and find a friend request from the Director of Marketing, an attendee at the meeting earlier in the day. He’s a very well-respected member of the organization, but he’s always made you feel uncomfortable for some reason. You aren’t sure what to do, so you ignore the request. A few days later, you bump into this co-worker in the hallway. He asks if you’ve gotten the request. What should you do?
- 20. Experiencing Applying Examining Explaining
- 22. As Instructors, We Are All Self-Taught “That is, we start in practice, and practice drives us to content. Or, more likely, the optimal way to learn is reciprocally or spirally between practice and content.” —Randall Bass, “Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education”
- 23. (From Svinicki and Dixon, 1987)
- 24. (From Svinicki and Dixon, 1987)
- 25. (From Svinicki and Dixon, 1987)
- 26. What do you do with class time?
- 27. Class time for… • Targeting the understandings, content, or skills that students find most difficult • Providing low-stakes practice and feedback opportunities (emphasis on peer feedback w/ expert oversight; also an informal assessment opportunity) • Letting students build something from their meaning-making/explaining/mistake-fixing that can in turn support them in the active experimentation phase
- 28. Examples • Students create a set of criteria or guidelines to apply during their upcoming active experimentation • Students create a set of criteria for self- evaluation • Students create something typical to authentic practice (e.g., a research proposal, an executive summary, a spec sheet)
- 29. ACS Blended Learning Grant Project: Analyzing and Creating Maps http://bit.ly/NtBkup Website serves as resource for instructors, providing online materials intended for out-of- class use (tutorials, including a substantial case study, and ideas for writing prompts) as well as suggested in-class strategies. A complete sample curriculum for a two-day module on spatial thinking is also provided. Screencast Tutorials: Teacher’s Notes: Sample Curriculum: Map Literacy Writing, activity, and More-developed Histograms, etc. assignment ideas for example of an Case Study adapting into your adaptation/impleme Creating Your Own Map course ntation within a political science course.
- 30. Map Literacy Example Apply your guidelines in the written evaluation of a new set of maps, and see if the Answer questions, guidelines are reply to prompts aligned with your own critical response to the maps. Note revisions you would Discuss homework as a make to the Working in groups, class. guidelines. create a set of guidelines for map- (Individually) write list of making that reflect pros and cons for a chosen the criteria you’ve map, using criteria you’ve worked together to developed. refine.
- 31. Map Literacy Example Apply your guidelines in the written evaluation of a new set of maps, and see if the Answer questions, guidelines are reply to prompts aligned with your own critical (Out of class) response to the maps. Note revisions you would Discuss homework as a make to the Working in groups, class. guidelines. create a set of guidelines for map- (Individually) write list of making that reflect pros and cons for a chosen the criteria you’ve map, using criteria you’ve worked together to developed. refine.
- 32. Map Literacy Example Apply your guidelines in the written evaluation of a new set of maps, and see if the Answer questions, guidelines are reply to prompts aligned with your own critical (Out of class) response to the maps. Note revisions you would (In class) make to the Working in groups, Discuss homework as a guidelines. create a set of class. guidelines for map- (Individually) write list of making that reflect pros and cons for a chosen the criteria you’ve map, using criteria you’ve worked together to developed. refine.
- 33. Map Literacy Example Apply your guidelines in the written evaluation of a new set of maps, and see if the Answer questions, guidelines are reply to prompts aligned with your own critical (Out of class) response to the Real-time assessment/feedback opportunities maps. Note revisions you would (In class) make to the Working in groups, Discuss homework as a guidelines. create a set of class. guidelines for map- (Individually) write list of making that reflect pros and cons for a chosen the criteria you’ve map, using criteria you’ve worked together to developed. refine.
- 34. Map Literacy Example Apply your guidelines in the written evaluation of a new set of maps, and see if the Answer questions, guidelines are reply to prompts aligned with your own critical (Out of class) response to the maps. Note revisions you would (In class) make to the Working in groups, Discuss homework as a guidelines. create a set of class. (Homework) guidelines for map- (Individually) write list of making that reflect pros and cons for a chosen the criteria you’ve map, using criteria you’ve worked together to developed. refine.
- 35. writing-to-learn assignments problem-based conceptual assignment design workshops contextual learning experience design
- 36. Image Credits • online communities map - http://xkcd.com/802/ • think - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakecaptive/3205277810/ • chalkboard - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/297096827/ • city - http://www.flickr.com/photos/holly_northrop/4278173735/ • bewildered - http://www.flickr.com/photos/viydook/6094186264/
- 37. References Bass, R. (2012). Disrupting ourselves: The problem of learning in higher education. Educause Review. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/disrupting- ourselves-problem-learning-higher-education Kolb, D. A. (1983). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development (1st ed.). Prentice Hall. Svinicki, M. D., & Dixon, N. M. (1987). The Kolb model modified for classroom activities. College Teaching, 35(4), 141–146.