sloan 2010, advanced authoring, engaging learners
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A presentation created for Sloan 2010 (Orlando, FL) on engaging online learners. I share my strategies and show examples. Images are linked to the activities discussed, or to blog posts with more information. These is modified for online delivery.TRANSCRIPT
Engaging Learners
Britt Carr,Creative Director,
Advanced Authoring, LLCChapel Hill, NC
Agenda
• About Advanced Authoring
• Benefits to institutions and organizations
• Strategies
• Examples
• About Britt Carr
• Acknowledgments
• Advanced Authoring uses innovative technologies to create meaningful, learner-centered experiences for institutions, or organizations
• We create activities:
• designed to immerse and engage the learner
• designed to show learner’s mastery
• designed to provide quality learning experience
• Founded by Britt Carr, in response to requests from institutions and organizations
• To assist with increasing quality of instruction in an online format
• As a supplement to traditional classes,
• As well as completely online courses or programs
Strategies
Challenges facing institutions
• Enrollments are skyrocketing
• Instructional technology resources are tight or nonexistent
• Teaching loads are heavy on faculty and staff
• Classrooms are crowded
• Institutions need a better way of using online instruction to stay competitive
Solutions
• Invert classrooms
• Free up resources/facilities by shifting knowledge acquisition outside the classroom- but do so in a learner-centered fashion rather than a passive approach
• use face-to-face class time for meaningful discussion or facilitated group work
Solutions
• put the learners in charge of their own education
• allow students to demonstrate deeper knowledge or mastery of subjects
• allow learners to personalize their experiences
Solutions
• We design activities that challenge students to think rather than to memorize
• We create activities designed to build comprehensive knowledge
• We design to be reused vertically, within the discipline
• We architect interactions that can be repurposed horizontally, within the institution
Randomization
• We make activities that randomize challenges and their solutions
• We let the learner try and try and try again
• We remove the assumption that they know simply because the guessed the right choice
Customization/Personalization
• If available, we use information about the student to personalize
• We make the activity literally about them
• We allow the user to alter the outcomes, or preferences, perhaps several different ways
Interaction / Simulation
• We create activities that look and act as the real world would
• We design interactions to take advantage of multi-modal learning
• We allow the user to alter the outcomes, or preferences, perhaps several different ways
Examples
For a complete demonstration, please visit our poster session, or view the screencast demos at:http://www.advancedauthoring.com/sloan/
Miami University’s Sewing Tutorial
• Photorealistic, 3D machine
you can thread.
• Recycled for stage lighting safety tutorial
• Designed to help students learn sewing safety procedures
Art Institute’s Virtual Photo Studio
• 3D photorealistic environment
• Random, timed challenges
all using the same approach
• Designed for mastery of troubleshooting electrical
photography equipment in a studio situation
Miami University’s Virtual Audience
• Audience watches, listens, and
reacts to you!
• Random actions by audience designed
to distract the performer
• Designed to help students suffering from stage fright
Current Projects
MBA BusinessSim
• Simulated company where student
assumes various management positions
• Game play is aligned with each course’s
syllabus
• Designed to help students make business decisions
with outcomes that might affect them later in the sim
Stanford Microscope Tutorial
Stanford Microscope Tutorial
Contact US:
www.advancedauthoring.com
Screencasts of activities shown here, and many more:
www.advancedauthoring.com/sloan/
Who is This Britt Carr Anyway?
• ’92: producing forensic video for courtroom exhibits w/ 3D
• ’94: building online degree programs for NAU-Online and Arizona State Universities. Founded Advanced Authoring.
• ‘98-2001: Internet Strategist for Macromedia, Inc. Ed/eLearning/Govt. Group.
• Managed Macromedia’s eLearning Award Program until 2004
• Instructional Designer / Tech. Specialist for Miami University2001 - August 2010.
Accomplishments /Recognition
• Clute International Institute on Teaching and Learning; “Best of Show” 2008
• Invited to join Adobe Education Leaders Organization, 2008
• Miami University Pride Award / Delivering Value Winner 2009
• New Media Consortium, “Best of Conference”-- People’s Choice and Judges’ Choice,
2009.
• Ohio Learning Network, Invited Keynote Speaker, 2009
• Invited Presenter, Adobe On-Demand- Education Series, 2009
• Invited Presenter, Adobe MAX 2009/2010
• Invited Presenter, Adobe Summer Institute, 2009/2010
• Adobe Impact Award for contributions to education, July,2010
AcknowledgmentsRyan Davidson - Flash DeveloperMichele Gingras - Miami UniversityMeghan Petters - Miami University
Tim Rentler - Education Management CorporationMike Link - Education Management CorporationThe student workers at A.L.T. - Miami University