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Phase 2 - BAEP Team Members: Peter Allison Brent Emily  Hey group! Here’s the start to our document. It looks like we need to select an OLE to investigate first. Once we pick that, we can decide which aspects/questions we should examine and then determine a plan of attack for investigating. Let m...

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Reflection of our OLE Investigation   Peter:  My biggest takeaway from this investigation relates to the goals and purposes of the Online Learning Environment. Before this project, I thought the goals and purposes had to relate to students acquiring knowledge based on the topics and the content t...

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Discussion highlights with OLE professor

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Discussion highlights with OLE professor

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Peter was able to conduct a phone interview with the professor of the MOOC course we investigated. Below is some of the highlights of his discussion.

What is one of the biggest challenges you face as an instructor in the online learning environment?

Dr. Wildi-Yune said the biggest challenge she faces is with the large number of students, it becomes difficult to communicate and address everyone in the course. She typically appoints a Community Advisor to help with discussion. She also mentioned how important it was to have clear established roles for the instructor,community advisors and participants.

What do you think is the most important characteristic of a successful online learning environment?

The learning and the learners are the most important characteristic. Dr. Wildi-Yune discussed that she did not want to be the only one in the discussions so she tried to bring in other leading experts and researchers to communicate with participants through the webinars.

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Question # 5: Can an xMOOC satisfactorily create a community of practice? 

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Question # 5: Can an xMOOC satisfactorily create a community of practice? 

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Collectively, we seemed to agree that a MOOC is difficult to create a community of practice because of the large number of participants and its open forum for users to add/drop at any time. We did agree that if it is set up properly and is able to provide student buy-in, it can be a successful community of learning.

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Question #4: What are the learning outcomes in this OLE?

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Question #4: What are the learning outcomes in this OLE?

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Learning objectives for this course include:

Explore benefits and challenges of Corporate Digital Learning

Assess learner needs

Decide on a digital strategy

Discuss learner engagement and how to maximize learning impact

Create a digital learning community

Co-create knowledge and exchange ideas

Topics covered include:

Best practices for social online learning

Engagement and interaction

Gamification methods

Blended learning

Flipped classrooms

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Question #3: What strategies are used to promote learner collaboration?

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Question #3: What strategies are used to promote learner collaboration?

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A discussion area is provided for students to post comments.  Some topics are provided to facilitate discussion.  Students are able to post their own questions or start their own discussion thread.

Students post journal entries that can be read by other students.  Students can comment on other students’ journal entries, or post questions.

There are webinars that have discussion threads to allow viewers to interact with the webinar.

One of the first assignments is titled “Share your Story”.  This is to get the participants to get to know each other before getting too deep in the course material.

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Question #2: How were the learning outcomes assessed?

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Question #2: How were the learning outcomes assessed?

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Students can earn a certificate of participation by completing 80% of the course content. There is a final assignment students must complete to receive their certificate.

The course does not give actual grades, but the goal is to create an online community of learners where students learn from one another.

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Question #1: How do the learners collaborate with each other? 

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Question #1: How do the learners collaborate with each other? 

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Students created journal entries. Peers can comment on each other’s journal entries

Students are asked open ended questions in various units. Students can add their responses and see their peers’.

For each unit, students can post a related question to start a discussion.

There were live webinars where students could participate in a live chat.

The course participants generated a list of social and collaboration tools.

There was a discussion forum available.

A collaborative map activity at the beginning of the course had students share their home country.

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What are the learning objectives of this course? 

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What are the learning objectives of this course? 

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Learning objectives for this course include:

Explore benefits and challenges of Corporate Digital Learning

Assess learner needs

Decide on a digital strategy

Discuss learner engagement and how to maximize learning impact

Create a digital learning community

Co-create knowledge and exchange ideas

Topics covered include:

Best practices for social online learning

Engagement and interaction

Gamification methods

Blended learning

Flipped classrooms

Motivating employees

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Our OLE: Corporate Digital Learning from iversity

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Our OLE: Corporate Digital Learning from iversity

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iversity.org is an online learning platform for higher education and professional development courses provided by experts from all over Europe.