1. Technology and Story Fostering Judgment, Insight and Classroom Strategy Sloan-C Conference November 8-10, 2006 Orlando, FL

2. Presenters Paul Bowers Director of eLearning, Buena Vista University bowers@bvu.edu Phone (712) 749-1216 bowers@bvu.edu Jeff King Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Kaplan University jking@kaplan.com Phone (954) 515-4575 jking@kaplan.com Daryl Peterson Director, ScenariosOnline, Valencia Community College Dpeterson8@valenciacc.edu Phone (407) 582-6645 Dpeterson8@valenciacc.edu

3. What is Scenarios™? Scenarios is an e-learning tool from Indiana University and WisdomTools, Inc. that features: story (case-based narratives) asynchronous collaborative conversation a highly interactive problem-based learning approach

4. Scenarios: Deep Learning “Through the use of compelling stories—highly engaging experiential and cultural narratives— we move learners beyond content mastery and memorization to judgment and deep insight. Dr. Martin Siegel, CTO and Founder, WisdomTools, Inc. and School of Informatics, Indiana University.

5. Scenarios: Authenticity Scenarios combine story and technology in case-based narratives that provide authentic contexts for asynchronous, collaborative conversations and group insights

6. Scenarios: Context-based Scenarios facilitate development of learner strategy in settings where procedures are shades of grey, less than obvious and context-based, with a set of options rather than a single solution.

7. What is ScenariosOnline? A Valencia Community College organization managing the development and delivery of Scenarios courses at Valencia and many other colleges.

8. ScenariosOnline Course Structure Series of Episodes (acts of a play), each of which is time-revealed Each Episode contains characters and a set of Scenes Scenes contain a narrative, a collection of Resources and one or more Activities

9. Scenarios Structure Scenes contain a conversation space, generally a discussion forum where participants engage in a deep conversation Other conversation spaces include “point of view” plus surveys and quizzes

10. Episodes Scenes

11. ScenariosOnline Course Goals To create an online learning community for faculty and staff course participants To encourage self- and group-reflection on the principles and practices of good teaching and serving students To provide tools, resources, and expert guidance to improve the quality of work To assist in creating an enriched learning environment for students

12. Courses for Faculty Teaching in the Learning College New and Adjunct Faculty Editions Teaching at an Art Institute Succeeding With Online Group Projects Doing the Write Thing (Dev. Writing) Making It All Add Up (Dev. Math) Creating a Competency-based Portfolio Developing an ILP

13. Courses for Staff and Faculty Sexual Harassment Staff Edition Faculty Edition Non-Discrimination Hiring and Evaluating Supervisory Skills Series Role of the Supervisor

14. Course “Visit” www.wtscenarios.com/vcc user name password

15. The following slides are screen shots ofpages in a ScenariosOnline course. They are “placeholders” and will not be part of the presentation. During the session, we will be actually visiting a “real” course with characters, story, resources, activities and discussion.

16. Main Page

17. Episode 1: Planning

18. Character Profile

19. Main Page

20. Scene 1: Relationship Discussion

21. Resource: Multiple Roles

22. Contact Information Daryl Peterson, Director, ScenariosOnline DPeterson8@valenciacc.edu Kathy Smith, Scenarios Program Manager kathyzsmith@aol.com David Hosman, Director, Adjunct Faculty Programs dhosman@valenicacc.edu Vanessa Moreno, Course Coordinator vamoreno@valenciacc.edu www.scenariosonline.org http://faculty.valencia.cc.edu/development