A Pinch of this and a Pinch of That! Student Readiness by Randall S. Upchurch Director, Center for Distributed Learning University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida

Didactic Education versus Edutainment! Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching If you think that student readiness to learn is a given…think again. –Have you ever witnessed IM’ing, IPod’ing or other forms of electronic diversions during your course? Or worse yet….students start surfing once the lecture gets boring! (Dziuban, Moskal, Brophy) Notes from Dziuban, Moskal, Brophy, and Shea. Technology-Enhanced Education and Millennial Students in Higher Education. Unpublished manuscript.

Much Ado About Something 1.Reduce ambiguity by providing more defined learning environments with fully developed expectations that minimize anxiety and the disengagement that results from it. 2.Facilitate an authentic sense of student value by creating an environment that fosters recognition, reward, and respect. Notes from Dziuban, Moskal, Brophy and Shea. Technology-Enhanced Education and Millennial Students in Higher Education.

Much Ado About Something 3.Reduce ambivalent feelings toward higher education that are a result not only from their perceived lack of relevance, mixed beliefs that face-to- face courses are the gold standard for education, but also their diminished sense of cohesiveness in a continuously pluralistic educational landscape.

Much Ado About Something 4.Help them understand the rules of educational engagement so that they perceive the present experience as fairer than what they experience in more passive learning environments. 5.Increase the possibility that they experience individually responsive learning environments.

Much Ado About Something 6.Increase the quality and speed of their interactions with peers and instructors. 7.Offer freedom from excessively large face-to-face sections that diminish their opportunities for creativity, engagement, and empowerment.

Example of Support Services Learning Online Teaching Online Essentials ADL5000 IDL6543

Student Prompters Advanced Course Organizer –Protocols SPA3471a –Focused organizers SOW3203b –DMB3 & DMB4

Guiding Student Engagement David Segal’s Pharmacology course –The Case of Kit Constantly changing scenarios, behavioral outcomes, drug interactions Moves the learner from a passive to an active role Fosters a learning community Fosters responsibility, interaction and timely feedback Moves learner to a position of being very fluent in information collection, analysis and dissemination –DMB1, DMB2, DMB3, DMB 4,DMB5, DMB6, DMB7

Guiding Student Engagement Joseph Holland’s course –“It is very difficult to move from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side" but that is the best way to describe the difference.” –“Teaching on-line requires that one begin to understand how a student learns and create activities that engage the student in finding, analyzing, synthesizing and communicating.” Scavenger hunt –assign a problem to a group of not more than 4 students who pool their skills and knowledge base to arrive at a solution in a set period of time

Getting into the Student’s Zone To Millennial or not to Millennial (Jay Brophy) –Getting into their zone by embracing technology in the educational setting ACME Regional Health System –Students get involved in ACME –Learning is comfortable –Learning is focused –Student 2 Student and Student 2 Faculty interaction increases DMB1-7

Ramping Up Course Starter Pack –Trial quiz –Pre-test of information literacy DMB1

Student to Student Collaborative/Cooperative Learning Groups ENC3311fENC3311f Problem Solving MAE6338aMAE6338a Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) –Discussions GEY5007a and Linda P.GEY5007a –Course Mail –Chat

Student to Faculty Readiness Learning Contracts –Learning ContractLearning Contract Learner Choice

Shaping Student Readiness for Content Case Study GEY5007aGEY5007a Tutorials RTV3000cRTV3000c Real Audio/Real Video –Communicative disorders SPA3471aSPA3471a Assessment –Self Test HFT4866a HFT3273aHFT4866aHFT3273a –Pretest LIN4680LIN4680 –Formative Evaluation EDF6432aEDF6432a –Summative Evaluation NUR4812aNUR4812a

And then there are fun things that serve as a readiness tool…. Diner Dash

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