Instructional Design and Psychology Courses: Using the Best Tools to Facilitate Student Interaction in a Learning Management System Dr. Sheryl Hartman, Miami Dade College Dr. Risa Blair, Miami Dade College

Dr. Sheryl M. Hartman - Bio Ph.D. University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida M.A. State University of New York at Plattsburgh, New York B.A., Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York   Dr. Hartman is known for total commitment to her students.  This recognition has earned her the College's highest distinction: the bestowal of an Endowed Teaching Chair, three times. She is currently recognized with the Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón Teaching Chair.  She has been a recipient of the Dr. Peter J Masiko Teaching Chair and the Ruth B. and Jack Kassewitz Teaching Chair.  Dr. Hartman has twice received the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Teaching and Leadership Excellence Award presented by the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hartman combines state of the art technology and time-tested teaching traditions to insure student success.  She brings creativity and a love of teaching to both her virtual and face-to-face students.  Dr. Hartman teaches Student Success courses for the First Time in College Student. She also teaches Psychology and facilitates an online faculty development and training program, Successful Teaching and Learning Online. She is co-author of four chapters in the text, Keys to Excellence.

Dr. Risa Blair - Bio Dr. Risa Blair Ed.D., Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida B.A. and M.S., University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut Dr. Blair has over 15 years of teaching and experience in higher education, preparatory education, and online education.  Working full time for the Virtual College at Miami Dade College where she coordinates and trains faculty in the course development process, she additionally teaches for Kaplan University’s School of Information Systems and Technology. She has a strong background in technology and communications, business and management, instructional design, and online and traditional teaching. Dr. Blair is also past president of Florida Distance Learning Association, the Florida affiliate of the United States Distance Learning Association, where she lead the organization in conducting technology training, state-of-the-art workshops, seminars, and webinars. She brings a wealth of knowledge in quality distance learning resources, as well as in Web Development, Presentation Graphics, Web Storyboarding, and Dreamweaver.  Dr. Blair even spent a semester in Israel as an assistant professor using state-of-the art telecommunication resources for her students to interact around the globe and learn in engaging online environments. 

Presentation Outline What do Discussion Forums look like in our LMS (ANGEL)? LMS support for encouraging critical thinking, collaboration, and variety Special Discussion Formats Required Post Discussion Fishbowl Discussion Hot Seat Discussion Blogs Wikis Gradebooks Reports

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LMS Support Using our LMS (ANGEL), it’s easy to work through a wizard to create specialized discussions built in ANGEL ANGEL controls access levels for users, and depending on the type of discussion, may move users from one group to the next once they post The LMS supports these options behind the scenes and there is no special programming required

Required Posts Discussions When discussions are set up as “Required Posts,” this encourages original thought and feedback, as students have to post first and then can read others’ postings In Psychology, students can be directed to read current events articles from the New York Times and other sources, provide thoughtful feedback (without being influenced by others), and then respond to their classmates

Fishbowl Discussions Students may selectively be assigned “in the fishbowl,” while others may be required to write synopses or summaries of the discussions for the week Students outside the fishbowl may only view the discussion, and not comment Fishbowl Discussions would be especially interesting to use to discuss different psychological disorders This helps to vary the participation and add interest to the class

Hot Seat Discussions With Hot Seat Discussions, some students are placed in the “hot seat,” and are required to answer questions Those students outside of the hot seat are the ones asking the questions In psychology, this would work very well for a case study and having student focus on a particular disorder

Blogs In lieu of participating in a Discussion for the week, students could participate in a blog Students especially enjoy the theory of dreams, this would be content for a very interesting blog Again, this would add interest to the class and connect with the digital natives

Wikis Wikis are an excellent tool for promoting group activity in online courses Students may use a wiki to brainstorm, create an outline, or even develop a group project Wikis in ANGEL may be carefully tracked; instructors are able to see who it doing what, and when Students may be assigned to do an interesting final group project on a chosen, approved topic

Gradebooks Gradebooks provide tremendous flexibility in terms of design preferences

Reports – editor view Our professors generally use class login reports and grades reports

Reports – editor/faculty view Here you can see the variety of report types available for faculty

Reports – student view Students generally use Grades reports and Milestones reports

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