Good practice in online delivery

http://people.unisa.edu.au/Kerry.JohnsonKerryJ, Online Education Designer

How do you engage students online?

The problem

 (Lewis and AbdulHamid, 2006; Ortiz-Rodriguez, et al., 2005; Russo and Campbell, 2004; Song and Singleton, Dixson, M. D. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2010. www.iupui.edu/~josotl 8 2004)

The solution

What NOT to do about engagement

So what works?

What can you do about Instructor Presence?

Asynchronous

• Pre-recorded media• Photos of yourself• News updates• Social media connections• Forum summaries• Micro blog tools

Synchronous

• Webinars• Live text chat

What about student connections?

Asynchronous

• Pre-recorded media• Photos and bios• Forums, Wikis,

ePortfolio comments• Social media groups

Synchronous

• Webinars• Live text chat• Skype• Google video

hangouts

What about learning activities?

Activities• Project-based learning• Inquiry-based teams• Debates• Co-construction of learning

artefacts• Audio and video learning

tasks

Tools available• Office 365 free to all • Google Tools suite• Wiki, Glossary• Webinar tools• FOSS such as

Audacity, GIMP

A program view of communications and assessments

VC= Adobe Connect Virtual ClassroomTC = Moodle Live Text Chat

Vital to remember

• New environment = new opportunities

• Mix it up along the continuum

• Engage studentswith each other

• Your presencematters

Good practice in online delivery

http://people.unisa.edu.au/Kerry.JohnsonKerryJ, Online Education Designer