Patty Delgado & Elizabeth Metzger
Online Learning: It’s Not a Spectator Sport
Agenda
• Introduction • Learner Centered Teaching • Active Learning • Authentic Learning • How to do it online • Q&A
Learner Centered Teaching
“It is the one who does the work who does the learning.” (Doyle, 2011)
Neural activity while students
perform various tasks
From Poh, Swenson & Picard 2010
Learner Centered Teaching
“It is the one who does the work who does the learning.” (Doyle, 2011)
Active Learning Decreases Failure
Rates
Freeman et al. 2014
Principles of Learner-Centered
Teaching
Explicitly teach the skills they will need to succeed in the class Explicitly indicate what is expected of them Offer multiple learning modalities Opportunity to prepare before class Low stakes exams Opportunity to learn & recover from mistakes Cumulative final exam Foster a learning community
Active Learning
(EdTechMagazine.com)
Flickr: “5-‐starry-‐night”
What do your students future jobs
look like?
Group work!
Get into groups of 2-3 Pick 1 assignment from the group and discuss how it can be changed to fit into an online environment while still being an active and/or authentic assessment. 5 minutes.
Let’s Discuss
Examples
Resources