User:Bjeib

Blended Learning  How do you define Blended Learning for your ITBL course?  Catering as much as   possible to varieties of learning styles  Changing some of the existing content onto a mediated format &amp; introducing new content that is best presented online  Online modules, Breeze presentations, chat Rooms, combined with face-to-face encounters and clinical simulation  Mix of class and online  <font color="#000099" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Integration of / interface between traditional, in person program delivery with technology component </li> <font color="#000099" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Combination of online &amp; face-to-face learning, lecture style, learning style, self-directed review </li> <font color="#000099" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Utilizing technology to help make learning interesting &#8211; bring fieldtrips to the classroom </li> <font color="#000099" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Learning from online assignments, modeling and research; integrated with traditional lectures and labs </li> <font color="#000099" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The use of technologies to facilitate learning </li> <font color="#000099" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Combination of online and face-to-face discussions and half the lectures </li> </ul> <font color="#990000" face="Comic Sans MS, Forte, Tempus Sans ITC, Lucida Handwriting">Inquiry <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How do you define Inquiry for your ITBL course? <ul> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Asking leading questions &amp; providing data for students to discuss their own approaches to answering their questions </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Having students explore (themselves) to answer questions, the answers which are found in the course content </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Student discovery of application of course concepts to clinical scenarios </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fewer lectures; more figuring things out through collaborative discussion; research opportunities </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Having students identify the big ideas with discipline topic areas and then pursuing them through self-directed inquiry </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Self-directed homework review, students figure out for themselves what they don&#8217;t understand </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Get students to ask questions about the material; engage </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Involves students asking the questions (within boundaries), designing the experiment, implementing it and arriving at conclusions </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Asking questions; holding online discussions </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Student-driven, inquiry and analysis, lectures follow discussion </li> <font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Getting students to take greater responsibility for their learning through the moderation of online discussions </li> <li><font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Creating peer assessment opportunities </li> <li><font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Research projects &#8211; getting students to define their own projects </li> </ul> <font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Issues/Challenges <font color="#006600" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> What issues/challenges are you facing (do you anticipate)? <ul> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Questions of     workload &#8211; us  and them </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Technology for the sake of technology </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Student buy-in </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Keeping up with learning the technologies </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Including Blackboard in my daily repertoire </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Holding real and virtual office hours at the same time </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Structuring the inquiry exercises, drawing boundaries for the questions and assessing performance &#8211; especially for large numbers of students </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Steep learning curve with video technology </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Time &#8211; no teaching relief, little time to spare </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How to modify expectations and goals </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Long-term support, sustainability </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Technical support &amp; technical glitches </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Grading &#8220;participation&#8221; </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Animating and motivating groups </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Convincing colleagues and students that courses should be focused on problem-solving, critical thinking and knowledge (information) access instead of memorization of facts </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Technology issues &#8211; video clips online </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Making proprietary software available, large data sets </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Answering computer problems </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Making mutually satisfactory administrative arrangements for course delivery </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How to &#8220;actually&#8221; implement an inquiry learning approach? </li> <li><font color="#006600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Monitoring online labs and assignments &#8211; How to really know what students are doing outside of class time? <font color="#006600"> </li> </ul>