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Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Allow me to introduce myself:
• Steve Forward
• Over 25 years in Youth Work
• Vocational Curriculum
Co-ordinator – SU Qld
• Lecturer - CHC
• Working across 4 organisations
using Moodle in different ways
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
3 Key Questions for Today:
• How can we work out what to do “Face-to-Face” and what to do “Online”?
• How can we then engage people Online in learning and assessment
• What are some of the tips and traps...
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Step 1 – Brainstorm the Cluster:
• The initial, creative, messy, brainstorming bit...
• All the things you “have to” address
• All the things you “want to” address
• Play around with it for awhile...
• Any ideas, notes, suggestions,
potential opportunities and issues
• Cluster Mapping Tool – Stage 1
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Step 2 – Develop a Competency Profile:
• What we and other stakeholders want our students to look like after we’ve finished with them...
• Identify key knowledge, skills and attitudes
• Create “Core Competencies”
• Use these from now on...
• Cluster Competency Profile
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
The Right Mix ... ?
• What are the advantages and
disadvantages of Face-to-Face
engagement?
• What are the advantages and
disadvantages of Online
engagement?
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
The Right Mix ... ?
• Complimentary, Blended or
Purely Online ?
• Online Learning or Online Delivery ?
• The 30% to 70% mix
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Step 3 – Collecting Evidence:
• How we know that our students have attained our “Core Competencies”
• What are the best ways to collect the evidence?
– Real Life Action / Made Up Action
– Question and Answer
– Discussion
• Face-to-Face or Online?
• Cluster Mapping Tool – Stage 2
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Step 4 – Developing Learning Material:
• Is it possible to create a “Learning Community” online?
• If so, how ... ?
• How do people learn?
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
What would this look like Online?
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Step 4 – Developing Learning Material:
• Is it possible to create a “Learning Community” Online?
• If so, how ... ?
• How do people learn best?
• Face-to-Face or Online?
• LMS (Various Moodles)
• Learning Guides
• Online Resources
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
The Key Word is “Engagement”...
• Online Engagement looks like ... ?
– A Learning Community
– Clear written and/or verbal information and expectations
– Fun Visuals
– Variety of mediums
– Take advantage of what the Online environment has to offer
– Extension Material / Options
– Consider the range of internet access and online skill etc
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Step 5 – Gathering and Using Feedback:
• Create a “Culture of Continuous Improvement” and a “Culture of Feedback”
• Staff and students
• Face-to-Face and Online
• Embed, respond, be grateful, use and give feedback on the feedback you receive
• Forums, Staff Rooms and Review Meetings
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Final Thoughts (Tips and Traps)...
• “Begin with the end in mind” – Steve Covey (7 Habits)
• Own it – Make it “Yours” so you can make it “Theirs”
• Build a “Learning Community”
• Think – “Engage, Engage, Engage...”
• Learning should be “FUN”
• Create options
• Less is (or at least, can be) more...
Getting the most out of face-to-face and online engagement
The Best of Both Worlds
Any questions, comments or stories to tell... ???