Observation_LM_930_1

Case Study #1
- Undergrad Psy Class (see syllabus) - Observe actual online class and compare the application of best practices - Examine class syllabus - Examine welcome message - Survey student and instructor perception on the application of 7 principles and learning effectiveness

Setting
Blackboard LMS Wimba environment (Virtual classroom) and tools (such as tracking number of people attending the class, feedback tools, commumication tools, desktop sharing) 1 instructor, [students: 80 (930am), 99 (945am), 105 (1000am)] instructor displayed a picture of himself Exact content as the class at 0800. Some students from 800 class attended the 930 class??

Class Proper
- chatting between students before class proper starts - sound check and started on time - Use the archive function - list the agenda for the class - turn off chat function when class proper starts - answer question when a student uses the "hand raise' function - uses annotation tools to highlight and emphasize key points on shared slides - activity 1 and 2 and 3 and 4: demo: students asked to recall a list of words after 2 minutes the instructor verbally presented the list. students were then asked to report the total number of words they can recall throught the chat room and polling. - used chat function to get student to respond; turned off timely multiple times throughout the class. - used polling tool to survey student response; polling tool provides a quick summary of answers. - instructor constantly inform the students what he was doing to the students e.g. (typing, changing slides, etc.) - relating new materials to content taught in previous class sessions. - constantly check student understanding on his instruction from activity to activity (students raise hand, type questions in the chat room) - Rely on various tools to support instruction (imply: instructor fluent with tools). - Use jokes, where applicable, to support instruction - Showed class a Youtube video to support instruction - constantly checking and reminding the classs the time remaining in the class. - showed a list of resources students can read up on their own to understand the topic better at the end of the class (students can read the articles from another learning portal) - Remind students they can seek clarification from him after class through email and office hours. - Students were using feedback tools such as emoticons & hand raise - collected immediate feeback: Pls rate today's session (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent) - 1%(1) poor, 6%(5) fair, 41%(31) good, 34%(26) very good, 16%(12) excellent Compare to a f2f session in AL-201, today's online session was (much worse, worse, about the same quality, better, much better) - 1%(1) much worse, 15%(11) worse, 61%(45) about the same quality, 13%(10) better, 8%(6) much better