OneDayInMay-2010-S1 Faculty Learning Outcomes (or desirable ruminations): • Identify adaptable strategies and tools to improve efficiency and efficacy • Identify an easily improvable component of your course • Formulate a strategy to implement this improvement • Integrate technology as part of your pedagogical operating system Title slide Oceans (320) of Opportunity: Rebooting a GE Explorations Course Stephen Schellenberg Associate Professor SDSU Geological Sciences “When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner So many thanks for research help from CTL, pICT, and ITS folks and for support from Qualcomm and SDSU
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Oceans (320) of Opportunity: Rebooting a GE Explorations course,
The popular OCEAN320 The Oceans course was rebooted from the ground up to (1) promote SDSU's new GE capacities and goals and (2) capitalize upon the strengths of online learning. Every quanta of new course content was reversed-engineered from learning outcomes designed to help students appreciate the scientific context and societal complexity of major oceanographic issues, such as ocean warming and acidification, overfishing and aquaculture, and petroleum exploitation and risk. The course is structured into scaffolding learning modules, each comprised of an integrated sequence of live Wimba sessions and an array of student-centered activities based on readings, videos, and web-based simulations. This effort has been an extremely rewarding (and exhausting) educational endeavor, and has forced me to re-evaluate my role as an educator in a increasingly stressed world where information is no longer scarce but often overwhelming.
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OneDayInMay-2010-S1
Faculty Learning Outcomes (or desirable ruminations):• Identify adaptable strategies and tools to improve efficiency and efficacy• Identify an easily improvable component of your course • Formulate a strategy to implement this improvement• Integrate technology as part of your pedagogical operating system
Title slide
Oceans (320) of Opportunity:Rebooting a GE Explorations Course
Stephen SchellenbergAssociate Professor
SDSU Geological Sciences
“When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism;if you steal from many, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner
So many thanks for research help from CTL, pICT, and ITS folksand for support from Qualcomm and SDSU
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Roadmap of the Tour
I. Consider course redesign in general
II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs
III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”
I. Think modular structure
II. Think module learning guides (LGs)
III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba
IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)
V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)
VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)
VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)
VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)
• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion
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• What is the course’s role? (discipline general education)
• What are the Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)?
• How does every quanta of content articulate into one or more SLOs?
• What is the most effective content, structure, and modality for course?
• How could you implement change and assess impact?
• Cost-benefit on short to long timescales?
• Suitability for hybridization or fully distance-education modality?
I. Consider course redesign . . .
“There is no such thing as good course design,
only good course redesign.”– Justice Louis Brandeis (modified)
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” – Voltaire
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Reasons for taking this class . . .
•Pragmatic: Checking off box to BA/BS
•Structural: Online, compressed
•Contextual: Interest in ocean, etc.
•Social: Online presence
•Economical: Save money, travel time*
•Environmental: Reduce carbon footprint
•Flexible: Anywhere, anytime learning
(*but not less work/study time!)
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I. CourseRedesign
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Roadmap of the Tour
I. Consider course redesign in general
II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs
III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”
I. Think modular structure
II. Think module learning guides (LGs)
III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba
IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)
V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)
VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)
VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)
VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)
• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion
OneDayInMay-2010-S6
Roadmap of the Tour
I. Consider course redesign in general
II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs
III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”
I. Think modular structure
II. Think module learning guides (LGs)
III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba
IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)
V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)
VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)
VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)
VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)
• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion
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Roadmap of the Tour
I. Consider course redesign in general
II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs
III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”
I. Think modular structure
II. Think module learning guides (LGs)
III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba
IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)
V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)
VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)
VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)
VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)
• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion
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Overview of Wimba ClassroomFrom 1stWimba
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III. Tour(Wimba)
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Overview of Wimba Classroom
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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We will start momentarily . . .Every
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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We will start in one minute . . .Every
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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We are starting . . .
. . . and doing a sound check.
Can you hear me? If yes, click the ””box. If no, click the “x” box.
If you can’t hear me . . .
• Did you run the Wimba Wizard? Surely so, but if not do so now and then re-enter!
• Assuming that audio checked out fine in Wimba Wizard . . .
- Check your speaker volume
- Try exiting and re-entering the room
- Listen by phone (201.549.7592; toll-call) using PIN # 14422849
- Exit, call Wimba for help (866.350.4978), and watch archive later
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III. Tour(Wimba)
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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We are starting . . .
. . . and doing a sound check.
Can you hear me? If yes, click the ””box. If no, click the “x” box.
If you can’t hear me . . .
• Did you run the Wimba Wizard? Surely so, but if not do so now and then re-enter!
• Assuming that audio checked out fine in Wimba Wizard . . .
- Check your speaker volume
- Try exiting and re-entering the room
- Listen by phone (201.549.7592; toll-call) using PIN # 14422849
- Exit, call Wimba for help (866.350.4978), and watch archive later
OK, non-audio people, we are going to move on . . . good luck!
EveryWimba
Session
III. Tour(Wimba)
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Action Items
Before . . . Do . . .
End of the day Download and printout all Module 1 materials (i.e., Learning Guide, four readings)
Tuesday 9 PM Four activities in cryptically named “Do These By Tuesday 9 PM” folder
Wednesday Wimba Read/Watch/Listen: Nature of Science
Thursday WimbaRead: Tragedy of the CommonsRead/Watch/Listen: Shifting Baselines
• Resolve any Wimba Issues via the Wizard and Wimba Help• Get comfortable with the BB environment and course layout• Attend Tuesday Wimba “Help Session” for Wimba, Blackboard, etc.