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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: [email protected]