Technology
What’s Here and What’s Coming
Tech Quiz
Ask some questions / share your
thoughts
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Personal and Professional Tech
Back up your data! Refine your workflow
Online
Google Drive
Microsoft One Drive
Dropbox
Offline
External Hard Drive
Thumbdrive
Know the EULA
"We will share personal information with companies,
organizations or individuals outside of Google if we
have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation
or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary
to: meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or
enforceable governmental request."
Google
Know the EULA
"You, and not Dropbox, are responsible for maintaining
and protecting all of your stuff. Dropbox will not be liable
for any loss or corruption of your stuff, or for any costs
or expenses associated with backing up or restoring any
of your stuff."
Dropbox
Know the EULA
“When you transmit or upload Content to the
Services, you're giving Microsoft the worldwide
right, without charge, to use Content as necessary:
to provide the Services to you, to protect you, and
to improve Microsoft products and services.“
Microsoft
Personal and Professional Tech
Know that nothing online is truly secure
Recognize that your approach to privacy is
likely much more conservative than your
students’
•We want our students to get jobs and
succeed. Their digital footprint needs to be
clean
Technology in the Classroom
Do you allow students to use technology during
your class?
Trends:
• Traditional Laptop
• Tablet computers
• Google Chromebook
Good and bad of each?
Higher Education Tech Trends
1.Ubiquity of Social Media
2.Integration of F2F, online, and hybrid learning
3.Data driven learning and assessment
4.Students shift from consumers to creators
5.Agile approaches to change
6.Evolution of online learning
*2014 Educause report
Online Teaching and Learning
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One in four students took an online class during the fall of 2012
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2 out of 3 professors feel that online class learning outcomes are
substandard
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However over half were excited about the potential of online learning
National Center for Education Statistics
Online Teaching and Learning
Evolving yearly, but will it improve higher education or change it
fundamentally?
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From 1969 to 2009, eligible tenure-track positions have plummeted from
78% to 33%
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Some, like Frank McCluskey, attribute this directly to the proliferation of
online classes and for-profit universities
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Half of student loan defaults happen at for-profit colleges, though they only
educate 10% of higher ed students (2010 study led by Senator Tom
Harkin)
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University of Phoenix enrollment is half of what it was 5 years ago
Online Teaching and Learning
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What works?
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What needs improvement?
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Successes, failures? Share your story
Online Teaching and Learning
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Student engagement is paramount
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Beyond the discussion board
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Beyond the online video/lecture
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Synchronous vs. asynchronous
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Google Hangout – 10 maximum users
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Synchronous discussion/instruction using the chat forum
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Take advantage of multimedia (audio/video/graphics)
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Make students blog or lead a discussion
The shift to M-learning
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Mobile learning is considered to be a big component in the ever-evolving
field of distance education
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Tablets and phones will be used more frequently to access course
materials
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My million dollar idea? Twitter style interface for your course discussions
Video and D2L
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D2L supports direct upload of files, but it is problematic
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If you don’t use a universally standard file type, students will have
difficulties opening it
It won’t stream, they have to download it first
Youtube is my preferred method
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Streaming is key
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Embed your video right into D2L
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Make video unlisted if you don’t want others to come across it
Adding Audio
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Adding audio to your online courses is easy
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Can record directly into D2L but it is problematic, runs through Flash and
doesn’t always work
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If you have a traditional laptop without an SSD, Use an external USB mic
when doing your recordings
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Don’t make things too lengthy. 1 hour is too long. Break it up into shorter
sections/modules
Use Voicethread!!
Digital Textbooks
Digital Textbooks
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4 Textbook manufacturers dominate the higher education market
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Profit margins for these companies are routinely over 10%*
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Schools are increasingly exploring ways to offer free or cheap textbooks to
students
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Average cost right now to students is $1,100 per year (2 semesters)
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Students are countering this by pirating or simply refusing to read the
textbooks
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Open textbook movement is gaining momentum
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You, as faculty, can have a direct impact on these costs to students
*Bureau of Labor Statistics
Create an e-Text
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You can create your own electronic text to share with your students
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They can use this on any of their devices
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Apple iBooks Author is incredible in the way it allows you to create your
own text
iPad Apps
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Dropbox
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Evernote
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iThoughts mindmapping
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Syncpad
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Baiboard (free)
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What do you all recommend?
Web 2.0 Resources
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Evernote
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Stoodle (share an interactive whiteboard with anyone for real-time
collaboration)
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Weebly (you or your students build a website easily)
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Infogr.am (example showing survey data)
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Text2mindmap
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Poll Everywhere
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Google Drive (awesome for student surveys)
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Dropbox
Web 2.0 Resources
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Video Notes (take notes from videos and they sync up)
Questions?
Chris.greer@gcsu.edu
www.drgreertech.com