Rich While Remote April 2021
- 2. Rich While Remote Future Generations University offers a learner-centered approach in a virtual setting.
- 4. Evolution of our hybrid model: Guiding Light – Maintain our transformative learning experience in the remote environment through the community lab. Helping hand – Experience in New Zealand – established rich distance learning approach
- 6. Community Lab: Each course required to have a Project-based Learning assignment that culminated in an artifact. Variations Included: • Student-choice of 5 out of 10 options to create • Student-led item • Various pieces that would fit together to be the Community Lab • Iterative Drafts during the course of the semester with a final final product
- 7. Framing Flexible Learning: Logistical Flexibility • Available out-of-hours • Available 24/7 • Available offsite • Extendable Deadlines • Lowering Costs • Portability Pedagogical Flexibility • Multimedia Formats • Adaptable Learning Environments Willems, J. (2011). Students Perceptions: Flexing Pedagogy and Practice. In Flexible pedagogy, flexible practice: Notes from the trenches of distance education. Athabasca University Press.
- 8. Spring 2021 experiments * “Priming” emails from faculty before Zoom sessions and recap emails trailing Zoom sessions * Chat option on the website womaned by a knowledgeable learning technologist * Informal WhatsApp Groups by course
- 9. Kelli Fleming – Chief Academic Officer - kelli.fleming@future.edu