1. Current Practices Using Web-Based, Online Learning
July 15, 2010
Amy V. Smith, MPH
California STD Control Branch

2. E-Learning: What Works
What It Is; What It Isn’t
Benefits
What The Evidence Says
Asynchronous, Synchronous and Blended
Things to consider

3. New Technology, Old Medium Photo by: Gary Leonard
Like filming live theater for a motion picture…
Photo by: Gary Leonard

4. New Technology,
New Medium
From: Safety Last, 1923, Harold Lloyd

5. Future workforce expectations Consistency of training delivery
Benefits
Wider reach
Global, rural, travel restrictions
Cost-effective
Future workforce expectations
Consistency of training delivery
Consistency of audience foundation
Keeping things fresh and interesting

6. The Facts About…
Learning Styles
Older vs. Younger Learners
The Medium
Graphics
Text
Audio
ADA compliance online

7. Adult Learning
• Involved in the planning and evaluation of their learning.
• Experience (including mistakes) is the basis for learning.
• Immediate relevance to work or personal lives.
• Problem-centered, not content-centered.
(Source: Malcolm Knowles, )
Adults need to be involved in the planning and
evaluation of their learning.
• Experience (mistakes included) provides the basis for
learning activities.
• Adults want to learn subjects that have immediate
relevance to their work or personal lives.
• Adult learning is problem-centered not content. 7

8. Online Learning Modalities
Webinars
Synchronous Online Trainings
Asynchronous Courses
Podcast
Audacity, Garageband (mac),
Websites
Blogs
Social Networking Sites

9. Online presentation or training? Allow learners to talk to each other
Webinar Tips
Online presentation or training?
Allow learners to talk to each other
Create opportunities to interact
polls, virtual groups, chats, mark answers
Use interesting slides with graphics
Keep text minimal
Use real-life examples

10. EXAMPLE Voting via Texting
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.
Sample Oral Instructions:
Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use your phones to do some audience voting just like on American Idol.
So please take out your cell phones, but remember to leave them on silent. You can participate by sending a text message.
This is a just standard rate text message, so it may be free for you, or up to twenty cents on some carriers if you do not have a text messaging plan. The service we are using is serious about privacy. I cannot see your phone numbers, and you’ll never receive follow-up text messages outside this presentation. There’s only one thing worse than spam – and that’s text message spam because you have to pay to receive it!
Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)
We have no access to your phone number
Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
TIPS 10 10

11. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.
In an emergency during your presentation, if the poll isn't showing, navigate to this link in your web browser:
If you like, you can use this slide as a template for your own voting slides. You might use a slide like this if you feel your audience would benefit from the picture showing a text message on a phone. 11 11

12. Webinar Software
Adobe Connect Pro
Citrix GoTo Meeting
Cisco’s WebEx
Microsoft Live Meeting
DimDim (limited free use)
Elluminate

13. Have a separate presenter and producer / host
Webinar Logistics
Plan for problems
Have a separate presenter and producer / host
Practice / run through it beforehand
Have a contingency plan
This is very important! Technology is a very effective tool, but it is not perfect. Be prepared!

14. Course building software Simple text, white space
Asynchronous Courses
Course building software
Articulate, Lectora, Captivate, Moodle (free)
Simple text, white space
Meaningful graphics and animations
Scenarios, case studies
Interactive quizzes
Audio, video
Flash, Screenr & LectureScribe

15. Asynchronous Examples
CBA and DEBI Trainings (3MV, CLI)
Webinar from standard PPT presentation
Recorded Webinar enhanced w/ Articulate
STD Overview for Non-Clinicians
Custom software, interactive online course

16. Asynchronous Examples
Visuals After
Visuals Before

17. Online STD Overview Self-paced w/ password Quizzes in all 7 modules
Database of registrants (1,800 since January)
Online Evaluation – linked to CE units, certificates
Evaluation database
Limited w/ software
Content heavy

18. LectureScribe
Live training simulation with white board markings moving at same time as audio

19. DEBI Overview Online Course
DEBI Overview Link
Designed in Articulate for online use

20. Websites, Blogs and Linkages
Interactivity
Flash functions, Audio, Video, etc.
Links to other tech services (i.e. texting service, e-cards)
Links to contests
Blog entries

21. Youth Social Marketing Toolkit
What Is Social Marketing?  
What's Going On?  
What Do You Want to Say?
Do It!
Campaign Samples
Meet Sally: she works for a small agency and has been given the challenging assignment of conducting a social marketing campaign.  She is not an expert in this field. Follow her through her decision making process.
What’s going on?: Data and background; Assessing the Community; Transformation Education
What do you want to say?: Goals and Objectives; Theory Informs the Message; Creating the Message; Sexual Health Behaviors Do it!: Strategy/Implementation; Media Comparison Grid ; Evaluation
Social Marketing Toolbox: Find the tools that you need to make a social marketing campaign,  including worksheets, links and sample  materials.

22. Online Learning Management System (LMS)
Things to Think About…
Online Learning Management System (LMS)
Functions desired?
Registration, evaluation data
Resources up/downloading (i.e.
Reporting
SCORM compliant (a set of technical standards which specify how e-learning software should be built. It is the de facto industry standard for e-learning interoperability)
E-commerce, training fees, etc.
Online courses
Video, audio capacity (software, server size)
Programming for web browser accessibility
What is SCORM? SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model
SCORM is a set of technical standards for e-learning software products
It tells programmers how to write their code so that it can play well with other e-learning software. Specifically, SCORM governs how online learning content and Learning Management Systems (LMSs) communicate with each other. SCORM does not speak to instructional design or any other pedagogical concern, it is purely a technical standard.
Let’s take DVDs for example. When you buy a new movie on DVD you don’t need to check to see if it works with your brand of DVD player. A regular DVD will play on a Toshiba the same as it will on a Panasonic. That’s because DVD movies are produced using a set of standards. Without these standards a studio releasing a new movie on DVD would have a big problem. They would need to make differently formatted DVDs for each brand of DVD player. This is how online learning used to be before SCORM was created.

23. Things to Think About… Technology capacity Hardware Host/domain
memory/speed, mics, cameras
Host/domain
internal/external, cost
Software
Upgrades, firewalls, no free downloads
approval process for online, real-time messaging
IT support
Staff skills
Audience skills and capacity
Assessing agency capacity is critical! If you don’t have the capacity either develop it or hire a contractor. It will save time and money in the long run.
Amy, you can speak to this from your experience.

24. Contact Info
Amy V. Smith, MPH
Health Promotion & Health Education Unit Chief
STD Control Branch
California Department of Public Health