University of Regina
Greg Bawden
Michelle vanGinneken
Instructional Designers
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91
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Online Course Growth
64
80
69
58
60
43
40
22
25
23
Online
Televised
29
20
9
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9
9
9
10
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2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
12
10
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2010
2011
2012
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4000
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Online Enrolment Growth
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1470
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1761
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Online
Televised
1130
547
674
723
626
831
838
2004
2005
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712
711
683
2006
2007
2008
1030
981
914
2010
2011
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0
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Casual Conversations with
Online Students
Focus Groups Findings - Implications for
Improving Instructional Design
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Faculty
8%
8%
32%
8%
4%
8%
8%
8%
16%
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Social Work
Science
Arts
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Graduate Studies
Kinesiology
Business
Education
Non Degree
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What was your
experience
taking an
online course
like?
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Attitudes
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‘Everything is online, for me that
was a big shift in thinking and
learning’
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‘I’m skeptical to take math or
economics online’
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A Lottery, Last Choice, Hit or
Miss ‘What about Online?’
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[Instructor needs to] ‘Be
present &
’
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Communication
& Instructor
Involvement
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Instructor set time aside ‘actively online’ prior to major
assessments
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Research vs. Teaching
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Flexibility
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‘Being able to stay home and
take my classes during nap
time’
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‘Exams only open 24 hrs on a
weekend...needs to remain
flexible’
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‘Read about it, hear it, and
see it in action’
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Forums
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‘Hard to
which one is [a] new comment’
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[Hard to]... ‘Follow the stream of
conversation’
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Forums: Learning
vs
Communication
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‘Time it takes to participate in
forums...takes hours for some
students’
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Isolation
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‘I like a few face-to-face ...it
helps ground you’
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‘Really lets us see his
personality…
....nice to see that in a video’
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‘But I tend to search my own
[video] lectures’
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Wish List
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More...video, audio, minilectures, games, mobile, and
choice
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Oncampus students
Forums
Less...text, forum posts, oncampus students taking
online spots
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Moving
Forward
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Should courses be a cookie cutter approach?
How do we make online a first choice? Is that the
goal?
Encouraging different course development
strategies & learning strategies based on
discipline and complexity of content? Can a 100
level course be multiple choice free!
How involved should an instructor be in a coursetoo little handholding vs. too much handholding;
finding a balance.
Forums –learning versus communication. How
can these be more effective as a learning tool
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Thank-you
Gregory.Bawden@uregina.ca
Michelle.vanGinneken@uregina.ca
Images from Haiku Deck and iStock
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