Supporting Faculty in Putting Elements of Course Online

April 11, 2011 - 1:19pm | by ptiziani
Presenter(s)
Peter Tiziani (San Francisco State University, US)
Areej ElAtawneh (San Francisco State University, US)
Session Information
July 13, 2011 - 1:40pm
Major Emphasis of Presentation: 
Effective Practice; Applied Use (technology or pedagogy); Emerging technology (tools or processes)
Institutional Level: 
Universities and Four Year Institutions
Audience Level: 
All
Session Type: 
Featured Session
Location: 
Crystal
Session Duration: 
110 Minutes
Concurrent Session: 
9
Virtual Session
Session Chair: 
Sally Robertson
Abstract
This featured session focuses on HyFlex course design/delivery principles around three-core concepts of sharing content, interactivity,assessment, accessibility. We use our suite of instructional software applications to demonstrate the most effective way achieving HyFlex course design and demonstrate effective ways of sharing content, facilitating interactivity, and assessment with the use of technology.
Extended Abstract

San Francisco State's Online Teaching and Learning (Academic Technology) team has conducted two campus-wide institutes for faculty to become familiar with strategies for online teaching and learning. Faculty attendees have ranged in their experience levels from novice to expert, but all have come away with ideas for how to implement individual online teaching strategies or redesign entire courses.

The goals of this session are a) to expose conference attendees to our strategies, which Academic Technology at SF State has implemented during our institutes b) to describe effective teaching and learning strategies that can be used in similar higher education settings, and c) to create awareness about potential accessibility issues related to Academic Technology implementation.

These strategies revolve sharing content, interactivity, assessment, and HyFlex* course design.

Strategies:

• Sharing content for learning through the Learning Management System, or LMS (e.g., Moodle file uploads, web pages, wikis); lecture capture (i.e., Echo 360); or file repository (i.e., DIVA, diva.sfsu.edu)

• Facilitating asynchronous and synchronous interactivity for learning through the LMS (e.g., Moodle forums, chat, wikis), Web conferencing (i.e., Elluminate), clickers (campus-wide standardization in progress)

• Assessment through the LMS (e.g., Moodle quizzes, assignments, gradebook), ePortfolios (i.e., eFolio)

• HyFlex course design enables a flexible participation policy for students. Students may choose to attend face-to-face synchronous class sessions or complete course learning activities online without physically attending class.

 

* According to HyFlex founder Dr. Brian Beatty of SF State, a HyFlex course design enables a flexible participation policy for students whereby students may choose to attend face-to-face synchronous class sessions or complete course learning activities online without physically attending class. Hybrid courses typically include a blend of instructional activities which include classroom and online components for all students.

Attendees of this conference session will be able to:

• Identify the core concepts of HyFlex course delivery that they might apply to their own course or program

• Consider strategies for sharing content, facilitating interactivity, and assessment with the use of technology in teaching and learning

• Demonstrate Academic Technology's workshop/institute strategies for faculty development and support

• Identify potential accessibility issues when implementing technology in curriculum and strategies for accommodating students with disabilities


 

Final Presentation: 
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Lead Presenter

My name is Peter Tiziani and I currently work in the Academic Technology department at San Francisco State University.

I have worked in higher education for about six years with an emphasis in technical support and instructional design. Over this period, I have used and assessed many different instructional technology applications which aid in teaching and learning.

I have skills in the areas of instructional design, learning management systems (LMS), web conferencing, lecture capture, ePortfolio workshops and support, online course development, faculty consultations, technology workshops, needs assessments, project management as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Current role

As Instructional Designer at San Francisco State University, I work with faculty on developing effective assignments, teaching strategies, assessments, support materials for faculty and students to more effectively use technology in their educational programs, and best practices for online teaching and learning centered around supported instructional technology software applications. I work across teams within the Academic Technology department and collaborate with various other campus departments to meet various technology needs. 

I developed and conducted formative evaluations surveys, focus groups, and interviews to investigate and evaluate currently supported instructional technology software programs, such as Moodle, Echo360, and Elluminate.

From the conducted surveys, I helped implement changes to our current lecture capture and web conferencing services. One of the major results from the survey was to streamline their LMS integrations and meet campus demand which resulted in higher faculty and student buy-in into the process and technology. 

I have been recommended by department management to personally consult with faculty on hybrid and online course development around the themes of sharing content, facilitating interactivity, and assessment.

In this capacity, I personally help an average of 50 faculty each semester which allows me to develop a high-level of rapport with faculty members from a variety of departments and disciplines.

As Project Manager of our campus-wide web conferencing and lecture capture solutions, I created and developed instructional resources such as user guides and screencasts to support faculty and student use of new technologies. In addition, I aided in the design of several Moodle user guides and screencasts where I created storyboards, captured screen content, recorded and edited audio, captioned exported video, and incorporated into our departmental media repository.