Leveraged Time: Learning Management Systems in the Classroom, Learning Management Systems as the Classroom Jonnathan Busko, MD, MPH, FACEP Assistant Professor, Arts and Sciences Maine Maritime Academy

Outcomes Objectives By the end of this session, the participant will be able to: – Define learning management system (LMS) – List at least 3 positive features of an LMS for an educator – List at least 3 positive features of an LMS for a student – Explain ways in which an LMS fosters intra- and inter-organizational collaboration

Conflict of Interest Nope.

Learning Management System Formal – A software application to deliver, document, administer, track, and report on e-learning educational courses or training programs Practical – A method for managing the content delivery and educational interactions between the educator and the learner

Canvas A learning management system – Cloud based – Remote access – Instituted selectively Fall 2013 at MMA – Instituted campus wide Fall 2014

Canvas and Me: A Match Made in Registration Hired spring 2013 – MD310: Medical Care Provider – MD311: Medical PIC Historically taught traditional format – MD310: 2 sessions MWF 1 hr / day and 1 session 3 hr evening – MD311: 1 session 3 hr evening

What I Promised Fall 2013 – MD310: 1 traditional, 2 hybrid classes Hybrid = 1 asynchrnous on-line class and 2 classroom meetings / week – MD311: 1 traditional class Spring 2014 – MD310: 1 traditional, 2 hybrid classes – MD311: 1 hybrid class Hybrid = 1 hour asynchronous didactics and 2 hours in the classroom

What Does it Look Like?

My (mostly) Positive Experience Inventing Time Unlimited production budget Prep time? Out with the old, in with the new

How To Invent Time Overlapping classes – MD310 A: M/W/F – MD310 B: M/W , 1 hour anytime – MD310 C: W/F , 1 hour anytime Excused absences – All material (including lectures) in Canvas Snow days – Non-existent

The “Unlimited” Production Budget Multi-million dollar educational tools on-line LMS allows collection of access in one place LMS allows access synchronized with sequence of education

Prep Time Build the content Organize the content Copy the content…

Presto Change-o My approach to video and my intellectual property Every item its own line item Whoops, that didn’t work…

Collaboration Intra-organizational – PSY-xxx: Risk, Error and Survival Multidisciplinary course – Math, psychology, history, casualty analysis, marine transportation, physical educaton… Intra-LMS collaboration – Each professor sees what everyone else is teaching in one place – Lecturers delivering only a single lecture » On-line only with in-class collaborator clarifying Etc, etc…

Collaboration Inter-organizational – What classes doesn’t your institution offer? Could institutions share specialists? – Collaborative courses Everyone has a best lecture they love to give Could you build a multi-organizational course with everyone’s best lectures?

The Student Perspective

Questions, Comments, Thoughts…