E-Learning for Student Success:

Your Toolkit

Kerri Simich
Niagara College

Adapted from:
Tania Fera-VanGent & Peter Vanscoy - Creative Active Hybrid Learning Environments
Kathy Bouma Enhancing Learning with Educational Technology

www.e-learning-toolkit.weebly.com
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1. How much do we already know about and use?
2. Learning Management Systems (Course Mgmt Systems)
3. Hybrid courses (aka blended) - discussion
4. Tools of Yesterday and Today
5. 7 Principles of Good Practice
6. Strategies to incorporate e-learning in your courses
7. Explore & Share
Group Discussion of E-Learning Tools
8. Active, blended learning in action
9. Post-Test Did you learn about some new tools?
Take out your Cellphone (yes, I said it!)
to respond to the following!
What is a Learning Management System?
a software application for the administration,
documentation, tracking, reporting and
delivery of education courses.
Thoughtful integration of face-to-face and
technology
Fundamentally rethinking the course design to
optimize student engagement
Restructuring and replacing traditional class
contact hours
Optimizing technology resources, not adding
an additional expensive layer





Advantages and Challenges
Havent we always
been using
technology?
Source: Google Images
Computer-based training

No interactivity

Technology provided information

Teacher-centred



Most of our students have grown
up with technology.
Source: Google Images
Today.
1. Promotes teacher student interaction.
2. Promotes student to student interaction.
3. Encourages high expectations.
4. Provides rich, rapid feedback.
5. Promotes active learning.
6. Facilitates time on task.
7. Addresses different learning styles.
7 Principles of Good Teaching

1. Promotes Teacher Student
Interaction

5. Promotes Active Learning
2. Promotes Student to Student
Interaction

6. Facilitates Time on Task
3. Encourages High Expectations


7. Addresses Different Learning
Styles

4. Provides Rich, Rapid Feedback
(Chickering & Gamson, 1987)

Ask not what the technology can do for you;
ask what you can do with the technology

(Carl Wieman, 2006)




Carl Wieman was recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 and the Carnegie Foundation's
U.S. University Professor of the Year Award in 2004
Wiki Tool

Send Email

Collaboration

del.icio.us

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Consider your course objectives!



Are there some f2f activities that might be more
suitable to accomplish on-line?

Can technology help students become better
prepared for class, assignments tests, etc.?

Be open to new developments:
stay informed of emerging technologies
rely on colleagues
implement slowly you dont always have to be the
first out of the gate!
Select technologies based on pedagogical principles:
Identifying course content
Organizing students learning experiences
Assessing student performance
Providing feedback to learners
Davis, B.G. (2009) Tools for teaching, (2nd ed.). San Francisco: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. (p. 181)

Recognize the educational opportunities and
challenges:
Increase in collaboration made possible
Speed of new emerging technologies, privacy issues,
intellectual property
rights
Weigh the pros and cons of using Web-based versions
of desktop applications:
Consider ease of use, security, privacy, data backup,
advertising and
marketing, support and training
Davis, B.G. (2009) Tools for teaching, (2nd ed.). San Francisco: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. (p. 181)

Active
Hybrid
Learning
Environments

Lets try some applications!!
Pick one tool that has not been discussed and
that you are interested in
Do some quick research
Enter your findings to the E-Learning Tools
Spreadsheet
(link under the Explore & Share tab on my E-
Learning Website)

Whats that URL again?

Centre for Learning Performance Technologies
Top 100 Tools for Learning

Online Tools
Camtasia
Flickr
Google Drive/Docs & OneDrive
LinkedIn
Livebinders
Poll Everywhere
Prezi & PowerPoint
ProProfs Quiz Maker & Testmoz
Quizlet
Screenr
Skype
Songza
SurveyMonkey
Weeby & Google Sites
Wordle
YouTube

Take the Post-Test after you have learned
about some of the great tools out there
Dont forget to complete your evaluation