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Patrice Prusko

Udacity: Creating A More Engaging MOOC - Education - Online Learning - 0 views

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course design engagement completion

shared by Patrice Prusko on 08 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • interesting problems for students to solve,
  • keep students engaged, and they rarely present more than five minutes of video lecture before offering a quiz or programming exercise.
  • "It's a very different medium from sitting in a traditional lecture hall."
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  • cryptography
  • students who are challenged to define a function that will produce a given output given a specified input, and they can each come up with their own solutions, which may be substantially different. As long as they all give their function the same name, the course software can still grade their work by passing it a series pre-defined test cases.
  • computer science is learning how to use new tools
  • that taught you by doing
Patrice Prusko

An absolutely riveting online course: Nine principles for excellence in web-based teach... - 0 views

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course design community

shared by Patrice Prusko on 14 Oct 13 - Cached
  • the online world is a medium unto itself; sense of community and social presence are essential to online excellence; in the online world, content is a verb; great online courses are defined by teaching, not technology.
  • distinct pathways through the material, providing a clear route to those students
  • material that works well in a traditional environment does not necessarily work in the online environment
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  • retooled, converted or redesigned
  • PowerPoint™ slides, course notes and handouts usually need to be adapted
  • entire onsite version videotaped
  • Even if they have been successful in class, lengthy lectures don’t tend to work online.
  • much shorter clips were created, using brief excerpts of important points along with the addition of visual material
  • faculty members who tend to think that their preparation for an online course will primarily consist of uploading lectures and creating quizzes are in for a few surprises
  • unique strengths and dynamics of the web in mind
  • content alone is not sufficient to result in or to guarantee excellence
  • Online instruction involves much more than posting a series of readings or a standard curriculum to a website
  • online instruction needs to purposefully and strategically engage learners in activities and interaction
  • content was not simply deposited for review. Rather, students were actively involved in it and thereby mastered it.
  • providing content with creating a learning environment or delivering a course?”
  • Quality learning experiences occur in online education when strategies are designed specifically to engage the learner
  • less dependent on information acquisition and is more centered on a set of student tasks and assignments that make up the learning experiences that students will engage in
  • increase in technology does not necessarily mean an increase in learning, and can in fact, lead to an increase in problem
  • chosen according to how they help meet the learning objectives
  • quick turnaround time
  • frequent and engaged
  • goals and objectives that are clearly stated
  • all aspects of a course (including assignments, activities and approaches to assessment) should align with and stem from course objectives
  • The learning outcomes are developed first, and then the course is designed and delivered by determining what pedagogical tools will best facilitate student attainment of each goal
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      Patrice Prusko on 14 Oct 13
       
      This is a key point. Learning outcomes need to be developed first.
  • a good rule of thumb is to “keep the course objectives in mind, and omit any material that does not support them”
  • Creating a sense of community is one of the main objectives in any class
  • It is through sustained communication that participants construct meaning
  • a deeper rather than a surface approach to learning is encouraged
  • Without this connection to the instructor and the other students, the course is little more than a series of exercises to be completed.
  • hey need connection, contact and a sense of realness and immediacy
  • Teachers need to work to develop community
  • collaborative learning activities
  • enhanced communication
  • small group activities
  • Because students often feel somewhat disoriented at the beginning of classes, they tend to search for and depend on a central document, or syllabus, to explain the entire geography of the course; how to proceed and where everything is
  • brief guides and tutorials
  • Brief personal email messages
Patrice Prusko

The Real Value of Online Education - Brandon Alcorn, Gayle Christensen, and Ezekiel J. ... - 1 views

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MOOC Research engagement completion

shared by Patrice Prusko on 04 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • But focusing on the tiny fraction of students who complete a MOOC is misguided. The more important number is the 60 percent engagement rate. Students may not finish a MOOC with a certificate of accomplishment, but the courses nonetheless meet the educational goals of millions. 
  • Patrice Prusko on 04 Sep 14
     
    "But focusing on the tiny fraction of students who complete a MOOC is misguided. The more important number is the 60 percent engagement rate. Students may not finish a MOOC with a certificate of accomplishment, but the courses nonetheless meet the educational goals of millions. "
Patrice Prusko

Why We Watch: Lessons from MIT's Study of MOOCs and Engagement | EdSurge News - 1 views

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shared by Patrice Prusko on 04 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The biggest takeaway: Keep it short. Student engagement, measured by how long a student watched each video and whether they attempted to answer post-video questions, dropped sharply at the six minute mark.
  • Videos with a personal feel (filmed in an informal setting) and videos that were designed with the MOOC format in mind fared better than polished videos that simply chopped up a pre-recorded lecture.
  • Patrice Prusko on 04 Sep 14
     
    "The biggest takeaway: Keep it short. Student engagement, measured by how long a student watched each video and whether they attempted to answer post-video questions, dropped sharply at the six minute mark."
Patrice Prusko

Udacity: Creating A More Engaging MOOC - Education - Online Learning - 0 views

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MOOC course design engagement

shared by Patrice Prusko on 01 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • incorporate more high-profile guest speakers than you could get to come to your classroom.
Patrice Prusko

Shoyu Learning Solutions - Instructional Designer of Engaging Educational and Training ... - 0 views

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video engagement research

shared by Patrice Prusko on 08 Oct 13 - Cached
  • Using thought-provoking questions together with video clips can benefit the learning experience
  • adding arrows in the video to highlight important content and stressing key words in the audio portion of the video to emphasize key information. Providing visual overlays or automatically zooming in on key elements
  • valuate the use of text and other information that are presented simultaneously with video. Too much extraneous information presented together with video can easily overload working memory
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  • Allowing users to control video pacing lets learners pause and repeat segments of the video in order to better learn the subject matter
  • students lost interest while watching 15-minute video segments and recommended that shorter video clips be used in training.
  • Keeping video clip lengths short not only can keep students focused but also can lead to better learning
  • learn best from short segments that are directly related to the lesson"
  • shorter, segmented video clips.
Patrice Prusko

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tool game engagement

shared by Patrice Prusko on 01 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • Patrice Prusko on 01 Dec 16
     
    process/resources for creating games for learning
Patrice Prusko

Top universities embrace MOOCs, but opinion is divided - University World News - 0 views

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MOOC research weakneses

shared by Patrice Prusko on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • failings in the MOOC format around sustainability, quality, equality, equity, financial viability, learning quality and accreditation.
  • lacks novelty
  • weaknesses around access, content, quality, accreditation, pedagogy, poor engagement with weaker learners, and exclusion of learners without networking skills
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  • The burning issues for MOOCs are a viable business model and accreditation of learning.
  • networking, reputational and learning skills that MOOC environments require for successful learning.
  • Online autonomy, group formation and inclusion-exclusion feelings among learners are a vital dynamic in MOOC learning, and are probably insufficiently understood.”
  • potential disruptions in higher education; and technology solutions for accreditation, assessment and authentication.
  • using MOOCs to preserve or increase earnings from overseas learners, and in commercial CPD
  • adaptive learning driven by learner analytics; badging and accreditation technology; and authentication technology that would leverage robust and proven peer assessment methods
Patrice Prusko

A Manifesto for Active Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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course design engagement lecture video

shared by Patrice Prusko on 04 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • My classes, instead, are focused on developing intellectual curiosity and teaching students to learn how to learn
  • If I can spark their intellectual curiosity about a subject and teach them how to actively pursue knowledge about that subject
  • students are responding to the lecture in real time on Twitter, and they have agency in the way that the topic develops through various techniques like guiding questions discussed via Twitter or even coming up and writing topics
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