challenges & opportunities in online & learning

Exploring Challenges and Opportunities in Online Teaching and Learning Anita Zijdemans Boudreau, Learning & TeachingLaura Dimmler, Health ProfessionsOTEN 2016 INTERACTIVE SESSION

DESIGN THINKING

AbstractThis interactive session is designed for educators interested in exploring the current challenges and future potential of teaching, learning, and designing environments for blended and online modalities.

Agenda● Introduction

● What is Design Thinking?o Human-centered designo Enhancing student learning and faculty

teaching

● Design Thinking Activityo What works?o What are the barriers?o What are the opportunities?

● Debrief

● Creating a Community

Exploring Design Thinking to Address Problems of Practice Related to Teaching & Learning Online

Future economic security for graduates in a digitized society will depend upon having cognitive abilities such as:

(a) processing and integrating many kinds of information to perform complex tasks;

(b) solving ill structured problems; and

(c) acquiring, making sense of, and communicating new information to others.

(Levy & Murnane, 2013)

EMPATHIZE-> Talk, share, synthesize needs & insights w. othersDEFINE-> What is the problem of practice?IDEATE-> Quick Sketch 3-5 solutions-> Share & get feedbackPROTOTYPE-> Build & makeTEST-> Implement & evaluate

What Is Design Thinking?

Source: http://online.stanford.edu/course/design-thinking-action-lab

Source: http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/1/using-design-thinking-in-higher-education

● Say “Yes...and!” Accept & build on others’ offers

● Trust your impulse● Make your partner/group look good● Work at the top of your intelligence● Embrace the messiness [design is messy!]● Resist the urge to seek perfection [especially in the ideate stage]

Engaging the Process Successfully

Phase 1: EMPATHIZE → G-DOC bit.ly/OTEN16-DT

● What’s working? ● What’s missing?

Phase 2: DEFINE

● Where are our goals & wishes?

● What’s our vision?

Rank those visions

● Which vision or idea really intrigues you or has serious promise?

Rank those visions

Phase 3: IDEATE● What design will get us

there? What does it look like?

● Quick Sketch/illustrate 3-5 RADICAL designs.

● The sky is the limit!

JUST DRAW IT!

Phase 4: PROTOTYPE

● Choose ONE prototype● How will we make

your design happen in the real world?

● Bring your ‘pie in the sky’ design down to the real world & its constraints.

Source: Learning Design: Conceptualizing a Framework for Teaching & Learning Online. Edited by James Dalziel. Routledge 2015

● What did you create?● Can you take an idea from another prototype

and blend it with yours?● What might you follow up on in Phase 5: TEST?

Debrief: Share Our Ideas

Creating a Community

● What would you need to help take your work to the next level?

Learning Design Conceptual Map

● Developing an educational teaching notation

● A descriptive framework for representation & visualization of teaching & learning activities.

Source: Learning Design: Conceptualizing a Framework for Teaching & Learning Online. Edited by James Dalziel. Routledge 2015

Thank You!

Anita Zijdemans Boudreau Associate Professor

School of Learning & TeachingCollege of Education

zijdemans@pacificu.edu

Laura DimmlerProfessor

School of Healthcare Administration & Leadership

College of Health Professionsldimmler@pacificu.edu