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Cub Kahn

"Introduction to Ancient Rome," the Flipped Version - 3 views

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    Lessons from a Texas A&M professor who flipped a 400-student "Introduction to Ancient Rome" course.
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    I'd love to hear some real world examples that address one point in the article: "Content delivery is the easy part. The hard part is figuring out what to do in class that keeps students engaged, and motivated to prepare for class." If anyone in our group knows of some specific tricks teachers usually employ for this, please let me know. (lil' quizzes? Q&A discussions? or something more interesting?) I'm wondering if there are other sorts of multimedia activities I could make that would serve similar function.
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    Warren, good question! The peer instruction approach of Eric Mazur et al. (see http://mazur.harvard.edu/research/detailspage.php?rowid=8) is a popular in-class technique. Here are some of other methods OSU hybrid faculty use to link online and face-to-face spheres: 1 - A low-stakes weekly quiz online prior to each class meeting. 2 - A discussion that flows from online to face-to-face and back again. 3 - A very short online essay turned in before each class meeting that builds on the online content, and is tied directly to in-class discussion or group work that follows. 4 - An interactive multimedia lesson online that provides a foundation for or extends in-class learning. (Examples: I recommend looking at Simon Driver and Megan McDonald's hybrid EXSS 444--I can connect you.) 5 - Group work online (e.g., formulating a debate position or a solution to real-world problem) that feeds into the next f2f class activity. 6 - A quiz at the start of each class meeting based on the online content. Whatever the method, a key is that the learning activities online channel rather directly into the in-class activities and vice versa. Think of it as a long ping-pong volley between learning activities in the online and f2f spheres from the first day of the term until the final exam or project.
Cub Kahn

Exploring Best Practices for Online STEM Courses: Active Learning, Interaction and Asse... - 5 views

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    Excerpt: "Effective online STEM courses integrated active learning activities, interactive engagement strategies, and robust assessments. In particular, assessment design significantly impacted students' self-perceived learning and learning satisfaction for students of all populations. . . . Online STEM instructors are strongly encouraged to utilize the Universal Design for Learning principles."
Sara Thompson

Binge Viewing and Online Courses | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    A comparison of Netflix "binge viewing" with new models of "binge learning" for online classes. Do students learn better on their own schedule? How to combine both? 
Cub Kahn

4 Reasons Why Online Learning Drives Residential Classroom Innovation - 2 views

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    "Instructional designers are consumers (and sometimes producers) of the learning science literature - and they bring this knowledge base into their work with faculty. Once faculty have the opportunity to learn and apply learning science research for their online courses, they will want to do the same for their residential courses."
Cub Kahn

Learning Out Loud: Make Online Courses Meaningful and Accessible - 1 views

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    "The case for learning out loud extends beyond the development of effective communication skills. An asynchronous, multimodal learning environment that invites students to verbally converse with one another has been shown to improve the social and emotional elements of learning." (also see http://www.slideshare.net/brocansky/learning-outloudsept2014)
Cub Kahn

​The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Cour... - 2 views

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    "One of the biggest misunderstandings about online learning is that it has to be limited to things that can be done in front of a computer screen. Instead, we need to reimagine online courses as something that can enable the interplay between offline activities and digital augmentation. . . . We need to focus . . . more on finding ways to robustly capture evidence of offline learning that can be validated and critiqued at scale by peers and experts online."
Cub Kahn

Online Homework Put to the Test: A Report on the Impact of Two Online Learning Systems ... - 1 views

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    "Students who completed the online homework activities performed significantly better on a common comprehensive final exam than students who did not participate. . . . These findings suggest responsive online homework in general, and a responsive-adaptive learning system driven by knowledge space theory in particular, has a significant positive impact on student performance in the first-quarter general chemistry course."
Shannon Riggs

Current Status of Research on Online Learning in Postsecondary Education - 1 views

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    As online courses continue to gain in popularity at colleges and universities throughout the country, knowledge about the effectiveness of this mode of instruction, relative to that of traditional, face-to-face courses, becomes increasingly important. (An update to the 2010 DOE report showing no significant difference).
Karen Watte

Understanding Project-Based Learning in the Online Classroom - 4 views

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    Interesting article with real examples of project-based approaches to typical 'solve this' problems in a variety of disciplines.
Karen Watte

Collaborative Learning in Global Online Education Using Virtual International Exchanges... - 1 views

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    Interesting article about how you might go about incorporating a virtual international exchange (VIE) experience into an online course; has the potential to significantly impact student learning in many ways; this article focuses primarily on language courses, but it could easily be adapted to other disciplines. (One of OSU's goals is to increase the international exchange opportunities students receive - this could potentially become one component of achieving this.)
Cub Kahn

ablconnect - 2 views

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    Harvard's online repository for active learning. Searchable by activity type (e.g., discussion, game, peer instruction, debate, presentation), subject area, timeline, learning goals, student scope (individual, pair, group, or whole-class), final product and assessment type. Site also summarizes research on active learning by activity type.
Shannon Riggs

COL - Online Course Design - 0 views

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    The mission of the Center for Online Learning is to promote quality online courses. There is substantial research to indicate what constitutes best practice in online course design and delivery to achieve good student learning outcomes and satisfaction. It is the purpose of this site to set forth guidlines to achieve that end.
Cub Kahn

Increasing Online Accessibility and Design Quality in your Online Courses - 1 views

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    Summarizes legal basis for accessible online educational materials and provides tips and key links to aid instructors in moving toward Universal Design for Learning.
Karen Watte

Campus Technology - 1 views

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    Online Learning | Feature 6 Ways to Be a Better Online Teacher --- check out #3 for a creative 'active-learning' activity that has students tweeting as various characters as they read texts from the Crusades.
Cub Kahn

Should Your Online Course Sound Like 'Serial'? - 1 views

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    "Rethinking the variety of voices and formats will not only be better for engagement, but also for learning. Rather than presenting information in scripted bullet points like an old-fashioned e-learning module, we should experiment with formats like debates, conversations, open-ended inquiry and stories in online courses. This will require students to extrapolate key points, synthesize what they've heard, and sometimes leave with more questions than clear take-aways."
Cub Kahn

Human Online Teaching and Learning: The Quest for Authenticity - 2 views

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    "To humanize online teaching is to create a situation where strangers can meet by the campfire, discuss what is important to them, and depart with the sense of connection, despite the darkness, and a feeling of community. It is that feeling of authenticity."
Shannon Riggs

Research: Learning Intent Should Determine Online Class Size -- Campus Technology - 3 views

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    Article about a study of online class sizes: The bottom line is that larger class sizes are ok for courses with CLOs on the lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy, and smaller (s.
Cub Kahn

How to Use Questions to Promote Student Learning - 3 views

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    Though this post refers to in-class activities, the techniques are readily transferable to online teaching and learning.
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