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USINGMOBILE APPS AND DIGITALRESOURCES TO INCREASE STUDENTENGAGEMENT IN YOUR BRIGHTSPACECOURSE
A PRESENTATION FOR BRIGHTSPACE
TEACHING AND LEARNING COMMUNITY
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WHO AM I?
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Jon Johnson
DirectoreLearning and Instructional Technology
Red Rocks Community College
Lakewood, Colorado
AGENDA
Introductions
Brief Discussion of Research
Presentation of Mobile Apps and Digital Resources
Wrap-Up
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POLL: WHO DO WE HAVE IN THE AUDIENCE?
Faculty (Higher Education)
Teachers (K-12)
Instructional Designers
Multimedia Specialist
Administrators
Other
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WHAT IS AN ACTIVE AND ENGAGED LEARNER?
“For students to be active, engaged learners, they need to develop a sense of community through interaction with their courses, their peers, and their instructors. Through this interaction, which leads to feelings of belonging, the students become more engaged, which heightens their sense of community and improves engagement even more. “
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(Dixson, 2010)
WHAT FACTOR(S) MIGHT LEAD TO AN ENGAGED LEARNER?
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Student Enrolls in
Class
Class Interactivity
(student, instructor, content)
Engaged Learner
Sense of Community
Student Factors
•Motivation•Learning Style•Degree Status•Experience with online•Prior contact with peers•Gender•Personality Type•Age •Country of Origin
Course Factors
•Content Type•Course Management System•Course Structure•Interactive Tools Available•Focus of Interaction
Instructor Factors
•Technology Savvy•Writing Style /Tone•Engagement/Presence•Instructional Design•Activities/Assignments•Motivation•Age•Personality Type
(Anderson, 2013)
NARROWING IT DOWN FURTHER
“Research on student engagement suggests that the opportunities for communicative action and interactivity with the other students, the instructor, and the content created by the instructor may lead to an active engaged learner”
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(Handelsman, Briggs, Sullivan, and Towler, 2005)
ENGAGED LEARNER
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Cooperative/
Collaborative
Strong Instructor Presence
Active Learning
POLL: ARE YOU USING ANY OF THESE TOOLS TO
INCREASE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT?
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Gaming
TedEd
Zite/Flipboard
ShowMe Interactive/Educreations
Screen-Cast-O-Matic
Brightspace Discussions
What Else?
ACCESSIBILITY CONSIDERATIONS
Synchronous Captioning
Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 Guidelines
YouTube Captioning
Transcripts
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FINAL THOUGHTS
“What we have learned from research is that it’s not the medium, but rather the instructional methods that cause learning.”
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(Clark and Mayer, 2003)
REFERENCES
Dixson, Marcia D., Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 1 – 13.
Handelsman, M.M., Briggs, W.L., Sullivan, N. and Towler, A. (2005). A measure of college student course engagement. The Journal of Educational Research, 93(3), 184- 191.
Lear, J., Ansorge, C., Steckelberg, Al., Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2010.
Anderson, T. (2003). Modes of interaction in distance education: Recent developments and research questions. In G. M. Moore, & W. G. Anderson. (Eds.). Handbook of Distance Education (pp. 129-144). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Clark, RC and Mayer, RE (2003) E-learning and the science of instruction: proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning San Francisco, US: Pfeiffer . 13