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Developing an integrated institutional approach to student success

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Developing an integrated institutional approach to student success

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Developing an integrated institutional approach to student success | Higher Education Academy

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Dominant definitions of student success tend to focus on retention, attainment and progression, but, as Doug Cole (Head of Student Success, Advance HE) examines in his new thought piece, 'Developing an integrated institutional approach to student success', there are also explicit and potentially transformative links to employability that have so far been underexplored in the literature.

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A Self-Directed Guide toDesigning Courses for Significant Learning

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A Self-Directed Guide toDesigning Courses for Significant Learning

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This is a brief overview of the subject. It is a model for creating materials and opportunities for significant learning. It is geard towards online learning, but can also be applied in many ways in the tradition or hybrid classroom.

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L. Dee Fink A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning

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A Self-Directed Guide toDesigning Courses for Significant Learning

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A Self-Directed Guide toDesigning Courses for Significant Learning

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This is an article from Brown University that addresses some really good tips and tricks for teaching online

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Best Practices for Teaching Online | Brown University

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The Brown Online team worked with University faculty from the online Pre-College Program to establish a set of best practices for teaching online. Not surprisingly, they are consistent with those long established in the field of distance education.

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This is an article from Inside Higher Ed that addresses 7 guidelines for online teaching. I like them because they are easy to understand and impliment for faculty.

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Inside Digital Learning asked four authors of books about online education for their expert advice on how instructors and their institutions can excel in virtual course instruction. The authors agreed that the online classroom is different enough from the traditional one that faculty members and adjuncts need to create courses for digital delivery that are substantially different from those they teach on campus. And they said teaching online requires an even keener focus on student engagement than the face-to-face model does.

"Years ago, we used to say the danger of online courses was they were just going to become electronic correspondence courses," said Rita-Marie Conrad, who along with Judith V. Boettcher, wrote The Online Teaching Survival Guide. "That's still a danger. As each new wave of instructors comes into this environment, there's still that misunderstanding that this is a new environment."

However, institutions and professors should be encouraging residential students to take classes online. "[Colleges] don't provide an online experience to every undergraduate student, but we're doing them a disservice," said Elliot King, co-author of Best Practices in Online Program Development and the upcoming Best Practices in Planning Strategically for Online Education.

More and more, employers are offering professional development courses online, he noted. "Learning online is different from face-to-face, and [graduates] won't have any experience. If the college wants students to be lifelong learners, give them the opportunity to" take virtual courses."

In addition to Conrad, Boettcher and Elliott, Inside Digital Learning spoke with Marjorie Vai, author of Essentials of Online Course Design and editor of Routledge's Essentials of Online Learning series.

Here are the authors' top tips for creating engaging and successful online education:
Make It a Group Effort
Even an instructor who has taught the same course dozens of times in an on-campus classroom will spend many extra hours figuring out how to teach it online, said Conrad, a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. So colleges and universities should offer them some sort of compensation, like a lighter teaching load the first semester or extra pay.

In addition, Conrad added, faculty members need training in how to design and teach an online course. "Too often, faculty try to lay the technology on top of the face-to-face course, and that does not work well," she said. "It doesn't work for the students, and it doesn't work for the faculty."
Focus on 'Active' Learning
Instructors often rely on long lectures to fill the time in a traditional class meeting. But even the most dynamic lecturers cannot get away with that online, Conrad said.

To engage students who are not in the room during a lesson, the course should mix spurts of discussions, collaboration, video and audio clips, and hands-on exercises with text and possibly brief video lectures, Conrad suggested.

"It's not a lecture classroom online," she said. "It's an active learning classroom online." And she said this blend of teaching and learning tools is new to many professors who have not created active learning environments in their face-to-face classrooms.
'Chunk' the Lessons
Long lectures probably aren't the best way to engage a face-to-face class - and are even more ineffective online, said Vai, an e-learning consultant and former chair of the English language studies department at the New School in New York.

"The student should be engaged," she said, "so no pages of text or an hour-long video." She recommended presenting information in 10-minute "chunks" and agreed with Conrad about the importance of varying the format.

Vai also suggested designing lessons with ample white space; breaking up text with photographs so students can see examples of what is in the text; and incorporating color into section titles.
Keep Group Sizes Small
In a traditional classroom or lecture hall, some students never participate in discussions or ask questions, usually because they are either shy or are not engaged. Online, said King, academic director of Loyola University Maryland's master's program in emerging media, that participation is required, but can be equally intimidating if students are expected to engage with dozens of classmates.

King recommended a cap of 20 to 30 students in online classes. And he has advised professors to break those students into groups of no more than 10 for purposes of discussions, collaboration, peer critiques and group activities.

"It's much easier for them to coordinate their time when there are fewer students," King said. "Everyone has to participate, but the barriers go down because they're only participating with 10 students."
Be Present
"No matter where teaching and learning take place, the importance of the faculty member being there and being mentally present with the students is the most important thing they can do," said Boettcher, of Designing for Learning, her Tallahassee, Fla.-based elearning consulting firm.

That doesn't mean simply responding to questions that students post online. Boettcher said instructors should have a "social presence" in their online classrooms, and encourage students to do the same. She suggested faculty members post their bios in the classroom and also do "some cocktail-party sharing" by telling students which books they are reading and the topic of their research. They also can post photos of themselves working on their laptop at a coffee shop or mention something interesting that happened over the weekend.

"Students should have a well-rounded idea of who [their professors are] as people," Boettcher said.
Parse Your Time
All of the authors agreed that instructor presence is critical to student success in a virtual class. Still, noted Conrad: "Online courses can really consume you; I know this from experience."

Responding to every discussion board post by every student in an online class "will crush you," King agreed. "Manage your time in a reasonable way. Don't be available 24/7. Don't turn your class into a one-on-one interaction with 30 students."

Conrad agreed. "Institutions think a faculty member needs to respond to everything" each student posts online. "That's not the way it is."

Conrad, who said she "picks and chooses" what she responds to, noted that if the instructor comments on every post, students tend to write their posts for the instructor, and not for other students. Online discussions, she said, should be between students.

Still, she said, the instructor "cannot simply let a course run itself. You're there as much as you are in a regular classroom. But that doesn't mean you're in the course 24/7. Pick and choose where you insert your voice."
Embrace Multi-media Assignments
Students who enroll in virtual courses usually are at least somewhat facile with technology, King noted, saying professors should leverage that by allowing them to use digital tools for their assignments.

While it's quicker to grade papers than to review student-produced PowerPoint presentations or videos, King said, "a lot of students express themselves better that way."

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7 guidelines for effective teaching online

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Inside Digital Learning asked four authors of books about online education for their expert advice on how instructors and their institutions can excel in virtual course instruction. The authors agreed that the online classroom is different enough from the traditional one that faculty members and adjuncts need to create courses for digital delivery that are substantially different from those they teach on campus.

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This is a resources that has a ltille bit of everything in it from full complete lessons to videos for certain subjects.

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This is a resource that contains videos and discussions from around the world, and on just about every subject.

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TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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This resource offers an extensive library of resources, and it also discussed what OERs are and how to use them.

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Open educational resources can provide access to high-quality resources while offsetting the costs of traditional textbooks. An array of costs are associated with the "free" approach, however, and institutions that are successful with OER understand that moving to open resources requires extensive planning, selection, management, and maintenance.

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Open educational resources can provide access to high-quality resources while offsetting the costs of traditional textbooks. An array of costs are associated with the "free" approach, however, and institutions that are successful with OER understand that moving to open resources requires extensive planning, selection, management, and maintenance.

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This resources contains a vast amount of video resources for just about anything.

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Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind. Serving 4.5 million educators and over 50 million students, Discovery Education's services are in half of U.S. classrooms, 50 percent of all primary schools in the U.K., and more than 50 countries.

Accelerate student achievement in your district by capturing the minds and imaginations of students with the fascination of Discovery, tapping into students' natural curiosity and desire to learn.

Overview of the District

Whether you are looking for a digital media library service, help in transitioning classrooms to a 21st-century learning environment, or to replace textbooks with modern digital resources, Discovery Education offers a continuum of solutions to meet your district's specific needs. All content is aligned to state standards, can be aligned to custom curriculum, and supports classroom instruction regardless of the technology platform. In addition, we offer a variety of professional development opportunities to ensure effective implementation in the classroom.

You know your needs. We know our services. Together we can create an effective solution.

Learn more about:

Techbook™ - an award-winning, interactive, digital textbook series

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Events - professional learning opportunities, scheduled throughout the year

It is essential for students to have multiple and varied exposures to content in order for them to truly learn and understand it. Discovery Education is an invaluable resource in this respect, helping me to provide interactive media, visuals, and videos that depict things that these students may never be able to see or be exposed to otherwise.

Nicole Wagner

Teacher
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (NC)

Discovery Education impacts the way students learn, breaking down barriers and moving beyond static textbooks to a digital delivery they already embrace.

Accelerating student achievement is the ultimate result we all want to reach. Discovery Education has worked with school districts of all sizes and demographics and consistently delivers results. We evaluate our services using qualitative measures, including student engagement, teacher satisfaction, and impact, and quantitative measures, such as test scores.

Here are just a few districts that have seen results using our services:

Collier County Public Schools, Florida

28-percent increase in Biology End of Course proficiency

Asheboro City Schools, North Carolina

42 percentage-point increase on state tests for 5th-grade students

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina
After using Science Techbook to hone students' skills:

12 percentage-point increase in college and career readiness for 5th- and 8th-grade science students

6 percentage-point increase in proficiency for 5th-grade science students

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Our first job as educators is to help students succeed, and year over year, we've seen Discovery Education Techbook make a difference in our students' math and science proficiency levels.

Ann Clark

Superintendent
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (NC)

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Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind. Serving 4.5 million educators and over 50 million students, Discovery Education's services are in half of U.S.

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This is a resource that is included with Canvas, for Canvas users. It contains all sorts of lessons, videos and other resources to use. You can also share your materials with other Canvas users

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Panopto is a video/recording software that allows faculty and students to record/video themselves. It is much more than a lecture recording tool. It intergrates seemlessly with Canvas and other LMS, and can be used for assignements, discussions, and even feedback.

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Panopto is the industry-leading intelligent knowledge management platform for on-demand video sharing. Create, manage, and deliver accessible content across teams, classrooms, and locations with an easy-to-use platform.

An on-demand video platform where learning never stops.

Panopto is built for a flexible future of learning and working across smarter teams, institutions, and industries.

The Panopto Platform

A smarter learning journey with video.

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Panopto is the industry-leading intelligent knowledge management platform for on-demand video sharing. Create, manage, and deliver accessible content across teams, classrooms, and locations with an easy-to-use platform. An on-demand video platform where learning never stops. Panopto is built for a flexible future of learning and working across smarter teams, institutions, and industries.

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This is a video/recording tool that alows you to create some pretty dynamic lessons and activities for your students.

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design discussions
no-schedule meetings
professional development
collaborate with clients
sales and marketing

replace text-only discussions
interactive lectures
support UDL principles
no-schedule office hours
professional development

student presentations
conversational practice
professional development
rich assessment
safe and accountable

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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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This is an online proctoring tool.

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Educational videos for your classroom

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This is a Microsoft application that is included with Office365. It is a great way to chunk materials, and make for pleasant reading and exploring experience for your students.

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Sway: Create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.

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Sway is an easy-to-use digital storytelling app for creating interactive reports, presentations, personal stories and more. Its built-in design engine helps you create professional designs in minutes. With Sway, your images, text, videos, and other multimedia all flow together in a way that enhances your story.

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Hewlette Foundation

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The Education Program makes grants to help students succeed in college, work and civic life by building towards deeper learning competencies and expanding access to open educational resources.