Digital Learning Environments from A to Z 

“Blended to Online to MOOCs”

Monday, July 21 – Introducing Blended, Hybrid and Flipped Classrooms
Morning Session

• All about blended, hybrid and flipped classrooms discussion
  • https://blended.online.ucf.edu/about/what-is-blended-learning/
  • Faculty Focus report July 2014 blended-and-flipped
• Introduction to ECHO360 with Steve Bransford
• Domain of One’s Own with David Morgen and David Fisher

Afternoon Session

• Introduction to blended learning with Mike Greenwald
• Hands-on session with web and mobile screencasting and interactive apps
  • Classroom assessment techniques (CATs)
  • Screencast-o-matic & Zaption
  • Explain Everything (On iTunes and Google Play)
• Blog reflection post

Tuesday, July 22 –  Navigating the Online Learning Environment
Morning Session

• Changes + preview of the week

• Blended learning exercise follow-up

  • Questions

  • CAT with Today’s Meet
    • Muddiest Point

• VoiceThread

  • Overview of functionality

  • Using VT in the classroom

  • VT Makeover webinar Wednesday during lunch

• Screencast-o-matic and Zaption overview

• Break

• History of online learning (this part may be moved to right after lunch)

  • examples:

    • http://www.extension.harvard.edu/distance-education

    • http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/

  • definition & discussion

    • data – numbers – growth

    • http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf

    • http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/gradechange.pdf

• EFOT summer 2014 cohort overview

• Course design rubrics

• Diagnostic Assessment (TodaysMeet and Polleverywhere)

Afternoon Session

• Hands-on session with online teaching and connectivity tools
  • Adobe Connect
  • Vidyo (?)
  • VoiceThread (VT)
• Participate in a  VT session: Can an online course be ‘humanized’ why or why not?
• Video Conferencing Options at Emory

Wednesday, July 23 – Surveying the field of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Morning Session

• Emory and MOOCs
  • Goal for Emory
  • Discussing advertisement vs. education vs. outreach with Judy Raggi-Moore
• Success in MOOCs – Coursera experiences
  • Emory’s Coursera Experience with Lee Clontz
  • Copyright and Creative Commons issues with Melanie Kowalski

Afternoon Session

• Discussion the broader impact of MOOCs: Accessibility to higher education
  • http://www.evolllution.com/mooc/
• Introduction to some alternative MOOC platforms (Coursera, edX, Coursesites, etc.)
• Hands-on session with open educational resources (Open Educational Resources)
  •  Locating and evaluating OERs

Additional Resources
Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCCs)
Online Learning Insights: My Open Learning, xMOOCs
MOOCs, Workplace Learning and “Heutagogy”
MOOC timeline

Homework: Preparing project for Thursday

Thursday, July 24 – Building your Fall 2014 Course Roadmap

• Activity: Differentiating the various digital learning environments
• Consultative Time
• Learning Outcomes
• Active learning & assessment
• Building your own framework

Friday, July 25 – Presentations and Discussion