Practical strategies for developing engaging, technology enhanced learning resources

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• #3: Technology-enhanced learning resources can help engage learners with the knowledge and skills they need to successfully complete their program of study. This webinar will explore a number of practical strategies for use in learning environments, whether they are on-campus, online or a mixture of both, for engaging learners in presentations, activities and creating resources collaboratively.
• #4: Please tell us in the chat box where you are from (College, BU) and what you would like to get out of this session
• #5: Helen to present
• #6: Helen to present. Moving toward the bottom, which are currently under-represented. These can be in f2f or online. 
• #7: The first strategy we will focus on is teacher-created content and specifically, using videos. There many benefits to using video in education as shown in several decades of research. There is a good video by Khan "Let's use video to reinvent education" which describes the transformative ways that videos can impact on learning and teaching and encourages teachers to use videos to flip their classroom, which means that learners can digest lecture content at their pace and explore content more deeply during class time. 
• #8: TedEd can be used to create engaging video to create customised lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on Ted-Ed or create lessons are Supplementary resources When you arrive on the Lesson, you simply click play In the quick quiz section you will find multiple choice questions around basic comprehension of the video You get real time feedback on your answers and if you get one wrong, you can use video hints In the think section, you will find open answer questions In the dig deeper section, you will find additional resources for exploring the topic You can complete the lessons anonymously or log in to track your learning Lessons can be shared with students with a URL You can re-use existing lessons and flip to make it your own Demo: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-psychology-behind-irrational-decisions-sara-garofalo
• #10: Our next strategy we will focus on is Interactive Content, and specifically, Educational Apps.  Accelerated development - the way a learner understands and processes information will vary depending on their cognitive learning styles. Having an app which can facilitate their learning style whilst taking into consideration the curriculum requirements will accelerate the learning process and be beneficial to the learner.  Cognitive improvement - one of the most beneficial aspects of educational apps it how much mental development it can bring about. For example, an app  can challenge a learner's problem solving skills through the use of virtual rewards, incentives, etc that will motivate them to persist and continually develop themselves in the process (we will show you two examples in just a moment). Sense of self-worth/self-improvement - research has shown that apps can bring about emotional progress. As the learner continues to strive for improvement, the sense of achievement brings about positive emotional attachment to the learning process. Educational standards changing - the future is technology, and specifically, mobile technology and apps. Research has shown that the integration into curriculum can and will raise educational standards.  
• #11: What is it? Answer Garden is a digital scribble space. It is a great tool for not only brainstorming with learners but also to check for correlation between other learner's ideas. The best way to describe Answer Garden is if you took a site for brainstorming like Padlet and you took a site for word clouds like Wordle, and you put them together, you would get Answer Garden. How to Create Presenter browses to: https://answergarden.ch/ "What educational apps have you heard of or used?" Ask participants to browse to: https://answergarden.ch/? or click the QR Reader once the Answer Garden is created Put URL in chat and ask participants to click on it and respond to the question or use their mobiles.  Participants put in their responses and watch the cloud build! Scroll to the far right to submit your answer   This can then be embedded into your LMS You can hover over it and see how many students made that response You are hoping to see same kind of answers to take on word cloud effect and words answered more than once get larger Great way to start discussions It is anonymous so students don’t have to fear if they are shy 
• #12: Socrative empowers teachers to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners.  Demo: Facilitator logs in at https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#dashboard and demonstrates how to set up a Quiz (very easy)! Ask participants to browse to https://b.socrative.com/login/student/ or if they have downloaded Socrative Student app use that. Facilitator logs in at https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#dashboard
• #13: Helen 1. Personalized learning The opportunity to help every student learn at the best pace and path for them is the most important benefit of digital learning. be more quickly diagnosed, learning gaps will be addressed, and progress will be accelerated. 2. Expanded learning opportunities Digital learning is extending learning opportunities worldwide. Learning happens at many times and in many places and intentionally leverages its expansive nature in the learner’s development of competencies. learners with authentic, rich, and diverse learning opportunities.” 3. High engagement learning The shift to digital can boost student motivation. Anyone who has witnessed the engagement of game-based learning can appreciate the potential to create learning experiences that boost persistence. 4. Competency-based learning Students show what they know and progress based on demonstrated mastery. Competency-based learning is possible in paper and pencil but it is hard to monitor and manage an individual progress model at scale. 5. Assessment for learning Digital learning powers continuous feedback from content-embedded assessment, games, simulations, and adaptive learning. When students can track their own progress it can improve motivation and agency. 6. Quality learning products Digital learning tools allow students to produce professional quality products and to share them with public audiences.    
• #14: Play video demonstrating interviewing skills:  Demo 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGsXUs_WozA Demo 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qEANbs0HXw
• #15: Historically it was believed that learners weren't able to create content in courses, however research supports many benefits for learners in doing so. Technology-enabled resources which are created by learners can enhance learning, and improve learning outcomes. Quality would increase because of the learner's sense of pride as they continually push themselves to achieve and produce work that can stand tall amongst a public audience.  Creativity is enhanced Learners use social media with highly evolved emotional intelligence as they invest time into creating quality support networks. 
• #16: What is it? Flipgrid is an asynchronous, video-based discussion and reflection tool used to boost social presence in online discussions. Flipgrid creates grids of questions or topics using text or video and shares your questions with whomever you like. Your students then answer with recorded videos. 
• #17: We won't focus too much time on learner collaboration as we do haven upcoming PD event on September 23rd on Facilitating online group work: problems and solutions. The link is: http://learningandteaching-navitas.com/events/facilitating-online-group-work-problems-solutions/  
• #18: Benefits of Google Docs It's free It's easy Good for collaboration Excellent security Any device, anywhere Demo: https://learning.ltt.navitas.com/course/view.php?id=69  In this example, participants were asked to complete a group work activity around the challenges of learning and teaching in online and blended environments. We embedded an interactive Google Doc into our LMS - Moodle. 
• #19: Have a go - for our last activity, we will ask you to have a go at using Google Docs. We have created an "Exit Ticket" and you can have a go putting in your answer here in the Doc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VwJPBXUXBfNhWbLzkJgoaUnKPOBHC0J2SNotLlSEg-g/edit