With a Taste of MERLOT

Transforming Your Courses
for Your Students’ Learning
Success With a Taste of MERLOT
Gerry Hanley, Ph.D.
Executive Director, MERLOT
Senior Director Academic Technology Services, California State University System
Presentation for our Partner s
16 de Noviembre, 2010
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
AND PARTNERSHIP
IN BEING INNOVATORS FOR
QUALITY EDUCATION
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for
Learning and Online Teaching- www.merlot.org
A free & open community for all who use, share, advise &
evaluate online teaching & learning materials since 1997…
89,000+ members growing at about 1,100+ per month
A free digital library and support services center for online
teaching and learning materials that is open for all to use…
25,000+ materials across disciplines contributed by members
A consortium of higher education institutions, professional
societies, digital libraries, corporations, and other
organizations collaboratively leading educational
improvement through technology
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Guiding QuestionsHopeful Answers
• What does successful learning really mean?
• What are your students’ learning challenges that create your
teaching challenges?
• How can online learning materials help your students learn
more successfully
• What does effective and efficient course materials design
really mean?
• How can you use MERLOT to help you find and design your
course materials more effectively and efficiently?
• How can your students use MERLOT to help their learning?
Agenda
• Begin with the End in Mind: Envisioning the
capabilities of your students in the workplace
• Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice:
– Student Learning Outcomes: Identifying the Skills,
Knowledge and Attitudes that your students need
– Redesigning Your Course: Content, Learning Activities,
Teaching Activities, and Assessment
– Integrating Technology With A Purpose: When is technology
a solution to your challenges?
– “Don’t Reinvent The Wheel” - Just Invent What You Need!
– Don’t be Alone - Join the Open Community of MERLOT
• INACAP’s leadership of MERLOT-Chile is building
Spanish language, custom services for you.
Begin with the “End In Mind”
• We want our students to be sucessful in the world!
– To Be Leaders and Workers
– To Be Committed and Passionate
– To Make A Difference In the Lives of Others
• What capabilities should our students have?
– Skills that will enable them to solve the problems that they
will face in their future
– Knowledge that can be used to analyze situations and
communicate that understanding to others
– Attitudes that will enable them to patiently or quickly,
decisively or incrementally, independently or collaboratively
make decisions with other people.
INACAP: Preparing the Future
Workforce of Chile Today
• What are the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that
you want your graduates to be able to demonstrate
in their first jobs?
• We will work through 2 examples and you can work
through your own teaching situation
– Healthcare: Diagnose patients’ symptoms
– Thermodynamic Equilibrium: Engineering/
Science Education/ Chemistry/ Physics/ more
HEALTHCARE:
Diagnosing Heart Problems
• What’s needed to be a good Healthcare Professional?
– Listen to a cooperative patient’s heart beat
– Recognize/Diagnose different types of heart beats
– Understand the consequences and implications to the
different types of heart beats
– Communicate your assessment to other healthcare
professionals and to patients
• Defining your student learning outcomes
– Describe the behaviors, judgments, and/or decisions the
student should be able to perform
– Given circumstances, how accurately and quickly should the
student be able to perform the skill/make the decision?
How Best to Learn These Skills?
• Typical Practices
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Read books and practice listening to other students’ hearts
Clinic experiences provide random access to patients
One faculty/clinic expert mentoring a few students
Lectures, questions & answers in limited sessions
Modeling- students observe and try to repeat skill
• What Challenges Do You Face Teaching Your
Students?
– Will they hear all the heart sounds in class and/or clinic that
they will encounter as a professional?
– Will they remember the subtle differences?
Online Library of
Heart Beats – Audio
and Analyses
You found it in
MERLOT – You didn’t
have to invent it!
No Need to Reinvent the
Wheel
Online Library of
Sounds of Heart
Beats
Can you think of ways
to design a learning
activity that would be
engaging and
effective?
Your students can add
the website to their
own “personal
collection” in MERLOT
that they can keep
when the course is
completed
Creating Your Personal
Online Learning Library
Going Mobile
• Your student has graduated
and is now listening to a
patient’s heart beat in a
clinic. S/he has to diagnose
the problem…
• Your Smartphone can bring
your Ausculation Assistant to
the clinic
http://mobile.merlot.org/
How Best to Learn These Skills?
Current Practices
– Read books and role
play to practice
– Random access to
patients
– 1 expert mentoring a
few students
– Lectures, questions
& answers in limited
sessions
– Modeling- observe
and try to repeat
With Online Innovative Practices
– Auscultation Assistant in
MERLOT provides all types of
heat sounds that might be
encountered & your own playlist
– Website captures expertise in
audio and text, making it
available for learners anytime
– Use your mobile smartphone to
run Auscultation App
– Random assess to patients
– F2F Mentoring, Q & A, Lecturing
– Questions/answers anytime with
online communities - Moodle
Will Their Classroom Learning Be
Transferred to the Future?
Current Practices
• The past patients
are no longer
available
• The teacher is no
longer available
• Learner relies on
their memories that
might be forgotten
and/or inaccurate
With Online Innovative Practices
• All the past “patients” can be
brought to life
• The mentors’/teachers’
explanations are ready for
reading/reviewing
• Learners support their
memories and can confirm the
accuracy of their knowledge on
the job
What’s Different?
• Dynamic, multimedia materials provides enriched
and real learning experiences
• Online materials provides on-demand teaching &
learning 24 X 7 vs. when convenient to the instructor
and institution
• Students create a life-long portfolio of materials vs.
materials only available when registered in a course
• Students are members of a learning community
which can transform into a professional network vs.
learning alone
• Students use their own devices vs. institutional
equipment
What’s Different?
THE LOCUS OF CONTROL OF
TEACHING AND LEARNING
IS SHIFTING
TO THE LEARNER AND
THE LEARNING MATERIALS
It’s Their Education After All
Is Teaching Still Important?
• YES!!! You are the designers of the learning
experiences
• YES!!! You still TEACH! You help them believe
in what they are learning
• YES!!! You are guides and mentors to learning
• YES!!! You are the quality control for the future
workforce of Chile
You are not alone!
How Can We Help You
Be An Innovator?
• Discover dynamic multimedia in MERLOT
• Integrate the new content into your curriculum AND
make the content available online
• Have students develop their own personal &
professional library of resources for their future
• Use engaging pedagogy where students practice their
skills, knowledge and attitudes
• Develop and use rubrics for student performance as
part of your pedagogy
Engaging Pedagogy
• Challenge the students to learn by asking
them the right questions and providing
readily available materials.
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Campus as Your Learning Laboratory
Case-based Pedagogy
Cooperative Learning
Gallery Walk
Inquiry or Problem-Based Pedagogy
Class Experiments
Learn More at
http://pedagogy.merlot.org
Designing Engaging Learning
• Defining Your Student Learning Outcomes
– Know what is understood and what is not,
– Perform “expertise” for your level experience
– Apply skills to discover what is not known.
• How this SLO fits within the context of your course
and the students’ possible professional career
• Prerequisite knowledge to succeed
• List of materials needed to complete learning
• “Roadmap” of tasks to complete
• Assessment rubric for evaluating success
Was This Your Favorite Topic?
Why Are We Learning?
• Student Learning Outcome: Student will be able to:
– Plan, conduct, & analyze experiments (scientific method)
– Apply the findings to a real world problem that demonstrate
an accurate understanding of thermodynamic equilibrium.
• Why:
– Thermodynamics is foundational knowledge to be a
professional chemist, physicist, engineer, science teacher
• Why in the real world:
– People spend many trillions of dollars heating and cooling
their living spaces.
– If you want to design ways to have “Green” heating and
cooling systems, you must understand thermodynamic
equilibrium.
Roadmap for Learning Assignment
• What will you manipulate?
– Starting temperatures
– Differences between temperatures
• What will you measure?
– Temperature every 10 seconds
– Number of molecules in each container every 10 seconds
• What will you do with this info and why?
• Explain what you learned about T.E. from your study
• Explain how T.E. is important to INACAP and give an
example
Assessment Rubric:
PROFICIENCY LEVEL
CRITERIA
Not Proficient
Proficient
Description of plan
for experiment
Independent and dependent variables not
properly defined; experiment scenarios
proposed don’t address both questions a
and b. Mark 1-4
Independent and dependent variables are
properly defined; experiments proposed
address both questions a and b
Mark 5-10
Findings of
experiment
presented in
graph(s)
X and Y axis are not correct, changes in
temperature over time not correct for all
experimental scenarios
Mark 1-4
X and Y axis are not correct, changes in
temperature over time not correct for all
experimental scenarios
Mark 5-10
Analysis of findings Interpretation of the graphs do not include Interpretation of the graphs include
thermodynamic concepts
Mark 1-4
Application of TE to Application is not relevant to TE
real world problem Mark 1-4
Reflection on their
own learning
processes
thermodynamic concepts
Mark 5-10
Application is relevant to TE
Mark 5-10
Did not write a comment to comment not a Wrote a comment about how the
reflection about their learning
assignment enabled their learning
Mark 0-2
Mark 2-4
MERLOT Content Builder:
Authoring Your Own Lessons to Share
Students Can Create ePortfolios For Their
Learning Outcomes
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Matching Learning
Outcomes with Technologies
Learning
Outcome
Information
Presentation
Timing of
Communication
Technologies
Conceptual
and Factual
Expertise
Online digital libraries
accessed through
different devices
(laptop, mobile, etc)
Just in Time – 24X7 access
via internet.
Asynchronous
communication between
the author and the user of
the information
Online digital
libraries accessed
through different
devices (laptop,
mobile, etc)
How-To
Expertise
Simulations,
animations, tutorials,
how –to guides,
demonstrations, case
studies integrated with
hands-on “field work”
Sometimes asynchronous
– when practicing and
sometimes synchronous –
when needing advice while
performing
Asynchronous –
online digital
libraries of videos
demonstrating skill
synchronous – 2 way
video conferencing
Problem
Solving,
Critical
Thinking,
Leadership
Dynamic interaction
with expertise to help
learners understand
the problem they are
solving; case studies
Synchronous and
asynchronous
communication,
interdependencies of
communications
2 way audio &
video conferencing
with fixed or mobile
devices
Leverage means
moving from here…
Mass = 1
To here….
Mass = Educational Practices
Mass = MERLOT Community
Muchas Gracias
Questions?