Ep 13: Humanizing Online Learning

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Listen and be inspired as Whitney Kilgore shares her expertise on humanizing the online learning experience through instructional design strategies, technological tools, and a student-centered pedagogy.

Resources

A few of Whitney’s favorite tools:

1. FlipGrid – Recommended for cultivating student interactions
2. VoiceThread – Recommended for conversations around content
3. BongoLearn – Competency assessment tool

“Technology gives the quietest students a voice”

– Whitney Kilgore (speaking on “Technological Tools of the Future”

Key Takeaways

1. Misnomers
   1. Faculty can simply take their face-to-face course, digitize it, and put it online. Rather, it may take 100-120 hours for an instructor working with a learning designer to put a course online and do it well.
   2. Students benefit from three-hour video lectures. Rather, videos should be ten minutes or less and faculty should break the curriculum up into to small bite size chunks that can be easily digested by students.
2. Advocate of #ContentCuration
3. #Pilot online learning practices with #mobile and #students. Conduct a #DigitalTasteTest. Afterall, user interface (#UI) matters.
4. #InstructionalDesigners help best leverage technologies; #Faculty best contribute as subject matter experts
5. Advocate of the Community Presence Model with three tenets: Instructor Presence, Social Presence, and Cognitive Presence
6. Research: Voice and video feedback was perceived by students as 154% more thoughtful and students perceived that their instructor “cared” about them
7. #Humanize the feedback experience
8. Synchronous, real-time learning in online learning
   1. Fitting for group work and office hours
   2. Unfit for hosting lengthy lectures