Educators today regularly use streaming video and other online multimedia resources in the classroom to enliven instruction, spark discussion, and engage students. However, rolling out such a digital resource across an entire institution, multiple campuses, or even online, can pose significant technological and pedagogical challenges.
In this informative session, Eric Kunnen, Director of Distance Learning and Instructional Technologies at Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), and Michael Levin, Director of Digital Services at NBC Learn, will help you discover practical ways to:
* Deliver online multimedia resources to multiple users from multiple access points
* Provide training and ongoing instructional and technical support
* Ensure widespread adoption across the entire institution
In January 2010, GRCC began offering NBC News Archives On Demandä (www.nbclearn.com) as a teaching resource across three campuses, as well as online, in its Blackboard Learnä teaching and learning platform. NBC News Archives On Demand contains more than 10,000 short videos, primary source documents, images and other digital content for streaming and download by instructors and students. It includes historic films and videos from the NBC News archives, as well as current events stories that are updated daily, Monday through Friday.
During this webinar, Eric Kunnen will share his institution’s decision making process, discuss implementation best-practices and lessons learned, and ultimately lay out the framework that led to GRCC’s successful implementation of NBC News Archives On Demand with enthusiastic adoption by the GRCC faculty.
In this webinar, attendees will learn:
1. Steps to take to overcome the natural barriers experienced while rolling out a campus-wide instructional resource across an institution.
2. Best practices to develop a comprehensive plan to train faculty, and test and implement a new multimedia instructional resource.
3. How NBC News Archives On Demands can help deliver reliable, cost-effective digital content campus-wide, in the classroom, library or home.
4. How current, real-world news content, relevant to course instruction, engages learners and helps institutions increase student retention.
5. How Grand Rapids Community College faculty use NBC News Archives On Demand in their courses, including real examples of content embedded into online courses within the Blackboard Learn platform.
GRCC is becoming increasingly scattered as we grow to reach our community. Commuter based campus and a growing DL enrollment, in fact enrollment in DL courses is up for this coming Fall by nearly 42%. This brings about unique challenges to reach students, keep the engaged with the campus as well as to provide access to educational resources.
[Impacts us all as educators as we work to deploy the next generation of curriculum to a new set of learners.]
In front of us are key themes and areas of focus for the 21st century student. Outcomes (a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies – information/communication/technology) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century. [Impacts the Curriculum]
Engagement, relevancy, are key themes here. Ripple effect… in such that students needs to have the skills to turn potential into innovation and carry an idea forward: FETC keynote speaker Cheryl Lemke (CEO of the Metiri Group) (Florida Educational Technology Corporation)
Community College Survey of Student Engagement = Real world talking points… making connections with the outside world – outside the walls of the classroom – relevancy Growth in DL and traditional use of Instruct Tech requires engaging (ccsse – community college survey of student engagement) and relevant content, motivation, retention rich curriculum
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC) and the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge.
Duke Digital Initiative, and YouTube Content - In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
Distance education is growing quickly at community colleges, according to the results of a study<http://www.itcnetwork.org/file.php?file=%2F1%2FITCAnnualSurvey2009Results.pdf> published by the Instructional Technology Council. For the 2008-9 academic year, enrollment in distance learning at community colleges grew 22 percent over the 2007-8 academic year, up from a growth rate of 11 percent in the previous year. Sloan Survey of Online Learning report released early this year, which tracked overall national campus enrollments, indicated that distance learning enrollments grew by 17 percent.
Administrative strategy and direction to grow DL with limited instructional design/technologist/media resources requires faculty to go it on their own. The need to build institutional capacity to understand and make informed decisions through professional development, conferences, showcases, and research about teaching with instructional technologies. Staff resources, especially in Distance Learning & Instructional Technologies. Conflicting priorities , time, staff, and limited Information Technology and instructional technology resources.
We use this in our training at GRCC… when we teach technology to our faculty - Seven Principles of Effective Practice in Undergraduate Education – it’s not just about sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Student to student discussing video – starter questions for facilitating classroom discussion and share playlists
Historical and timely (current) engaging, relevant, dynamic and contextual video resources – bring the REAL WORLD to the classroom and the students to the world – motivation/retention is key, RELIABLE trusted source / youtube concerns Download video also for areas without wifi
Rolling out new technologies across an entire institution and one with multiple campuses has challenges, and this is where the pilot comes in.
Lessons learned and best practices. Overcome barriers in rolling out new tools. Simple tutorials.
Material come alive through video, easy to use, pick the subject and search, prenatal development
JOE HESSE if you want scientific laws, theories, formula to mean something there has to be realworld context and relevancy to students lives – run the videos before and after class and during transition periods
JULIET KELLER ESL different levels of ability and play a short clip to discuss what they heard and use the transcripts to read along with the speaker to pick up on words they may have missed.
STEVE BEAUCLAIR EN – very easy to find a relevant topic Haiti the oil spill, and a 2 or 4 minute clip and the spark get’s the discussion going, facilitate connections with the outside work
DAVID LANGE BUSINESS MARKETING CAMEL – demonstrate marketing concepts camel 9 marketing discussion the ethical side and current events
http://www.nbclearn.com/grcc.html
In closing using the ntl ed tech plan goals… and that is where we are headed at GRCC researching, piloting, and discovering new tools that can empower our faculty and students to learn effectively, become engaged, so that they can learn anytime anywhere.
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