Graduate Online Course: Technology - Use

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Graduate Online Course Technology - Use
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• Jim Flowers
• Department of Industry Technology
• Ball State University
• jcflowers1_at_bsu.edu

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Presentation Questions

• 1. What is this course?
• 2. How was it developed?
• 3. How was it implemented?
• 4. What does it look like?
• 5. What were some student projects?
• 6. What lessons were learned?
• 7. What does the future hold?

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1. What is this course?

• ITEDU 510 Technology Use and Assessment
• An elective in Ball States masters in TE
• Based on newly developed undergraduate
  face-to-face (F2F) course on Using and Assessing
  Technology

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Specifics

• 100 online
• Asynchronous
• With weekly lessons and deadlines
• First offered Fall, 2000
• Next offered Fall, 2001
• 26/27 enrollees completed

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Instructional Technology

• Blackboards CourseInfo
• Can be accessed by any computer on the Internet
• Webpage creation

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Unique attributes

• Individual and collaborative learning
• Student-written objective
• Only formative quizzes
• No final exam

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2. How was it developed?

• A championed idea
• Most content came from outside Tech Ed
• Tried out some content activities with
  undergraduate F2F class first
• Used survey results and research to inform
  decisions

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Support

• Departmental support
• Unusually good University support
• 6 hrs assigned time for development
• I had to become an online student
• Attendance at all related workshops
• Instructional designer
• (Other support, as needed)

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Content Issues

• Based on Design, produce, use, assess

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ITEA Standard 13

• Students will develop the abilities to assess
  the impact of products and systems.

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Not ITEA Standard 12

• Students will develop the abilities to use and
  maintain technological products and systems.
• Use hand tools correctly.
• Use computers to access and organize
  information.

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Levels of Using Technology

• Personal
• Corporate
• Cultural
• National
• Global

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Studying Using Technology

• Trends in use
• Problems with use
• Usability
• User-centered design
• Anthropometrics Ergonomics
• Universal Design
• User surveys
• Instructions for users
• Other

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Usability Research

• Usability testing
• User survey
• Other

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Levels of Technology Assessment

• Personal
• Corporate
• Cultural
• National
• Global

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Technology Assessment

• Analysis of TA reports from the US Office of
  Technology Assessment, and others
• Formal TA process
• Web-based group TA reports

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Individualized Objective

• Individualized project

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Development Issues

• Providing for the personal touch
• Among students
• Between students and the instructor
• Blending didactic and constructivistic
• Including individualized and group learning
• Realistic, doable, fun, and meaningful

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3. How was it implemented?
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Marketing

• To on-campus Tech Ed students
• At ITEA conference
• (Surreptitiously through a survey)
• An ad was placed in a TEI periodical
• Email was sent to all TE state supervisors
• Brochures were sent to all HS principals in
  Indiana.

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Registration Enrollment

• Online
• Some delays, but no major problems
• Course divided into on-campus and off-campus
  sections, and limit increased above 20
• 27 students enrolled, 26 completed

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Web-Based Instruction

• Modules, usually 1 per week
• Interaction
• File exchange
• Discussion boards
• 3 larger activities
• Individual usability research
• Team technology assessment
• Individual project

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Rigorous course assessment

• Standard promotion and tenure course assessment
  was inadequate
• Additional course assessment based on Quality on
  the Line, Benchmarks for Success in
  Internet-Based Education

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4. What does it look like?

• The Blackboard CourseInfo Interface
• Separate Web pages

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5. What were some student projects?
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Student project usability test
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Student project usability test
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Student project usability test
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Student project usability test
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Student project usability test
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A teams tech. assessment
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A teams tech. Assessment
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Student project backpack use
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Student project backpack use
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Student project backpack use
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6. What lessons were learned?
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Marketing

• Give online courses the 1 emphasis on a
  departmental Web site.
• Spend 10 on marketing
• Beg ITEA and CTTE to serve as clearinghouses
• Help prospective students learn of the offerings
• Check Web search engines and guides to online
  courses
• Market early and often, near and far

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Development

• Keep it user-centered
• Verify materials
• Use reusable learning objects
• Include individual group activities
• Accommodate users
• Bandwidth
• Busy schedules
• Interests

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Develop DL to be Equivalent to F2F in

• Quality
• Workload

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Taking advantage of the Web

• Web resources
• Web-based communications
• Within class
• With those not in the class
• Web publishing

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Organizing communications

• Communications among students
• Threaded discussion organization
• Chat
• Etc.

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Organizing communications

• Communications with the Instructor
• Dates times
• File naming conventions
• Email organization
• Online office hours

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Support

• Curriculum development and testing
• Instruction
• Student support

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Support

• More time needed during initial implementation
• Institutional coordination needed
• Single password
• Easy registration

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For Students

• Provide meaningful personal contact
• Provide quality instruction
• Provide flexibility

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7. What does the future hold?
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Next implementation

• Fall, 2001
• New and improved
• New Blackboard interface

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Fall 2001 Information

• http//www.bsu.edu/classes/flowers2/510intro.htm

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Fall 2001 Preview

• http//www.bsu.edu/educate/courses/itedu510s001y20
  01fa

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Plans for an Online Masters in Technology
Education from Ball State University

• Hopefully implemented by Fall, 2002
• 30 online hours, no thesis
• Flexibility

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Please direct inquiries to

• Jim Flowers
• jcflowers1_at_bsu.edu
• [phone]

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Graduate Online Course Technology - Use
Assessment

• Jim Flowers
• Department of Industry Technology
• Ball State University
• jcflowers1_at_bsu.edu