bite sized development

Bite Sized DevelopmentIncrease Participation, Creativity & Knowledge Exchange

University of AbertayWild Trails MediaColin Gray | @elearningcolin |

How Does it Work?

Why Should it Work?

Flexible, short, just-in-time learning(Simkins & Maier, 2010)

Community of Practice(Lave & Wenger, 1991)

Attention spans - 90/20/8 rule(Pike, 1994)

Where Has it Worked?

Edinburgh NapierIn the CloudPodwhating?!Web2 and You

Open EducationHow to Podcast

Business Education

Chiasma

Helen Webster10 Days of Twitter & LD5D

23 ThingsPLCMC & Cambridge

What’s Your Experience?

Have you participated inan online course? ?

ODDWhat didyou like?

EVENWhat didn’t

you like?

Putting it in Context

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Briefly introduce your own area

Pick one topic to teach using Bite-Sized

Devise 2 or 3 tasks for that topic3

Research on Engagement

The Course Drain

Final Day

Any Action:39%

Average:62%

“In the Cloud” Course – Edinburgh Napier, 2012

“In the Cloud” | 18 x

Final Day

“Web2 and You” | 12 x

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Web2 and You Course Activity

Average actions:42%

Weekly Actions:90%

Research on Engagement

Similar measurements across the board

My Courses

Colleagues MOOCs

12%

29%39%

Increasing Engagement

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(My thoughts and experience, at least….)

Prime Your Participants

Jump the Rails

Be the Snowball

Lay Down the Law

Increasing Engagement(My thoughts and experience, at least….)

Prime Your Participants 1

T-5 days Day 1-5 to 0 days

Lay Down the Law

2Lay Down the Law

Prod Them!Guilt Them!

Guilt Them, again!

Be the Snowball

3Be the Snowball

Plant theSeeds

HeavyLifting

Watch itGrow

Jump the Rails

4Jump the Rails

Get Creative& Responsive

ParticipantContent

Prompt CreativeOutputs

Putting it in Context

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What would work with your learners?

Your experience with this, or others?

Ideas for new engagement tactics?

Bite Sized DevelopmentIncrease Participation, Creativity & Knowledge Exchange

University of Abertay Dundee & Wild Trails Media

Colin Gray

T: @elearningcolinE: colin@wildtrails.co.uk