OpenEd2005 Bradley

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Generating Open Courseware using Podcasting, Screencasting, Blogs and Games Jean-Claude Bradley E-Learning Coordinator College of Arts and Sciences Drexel University September 30, 2005 Open Education Conference, Logan Utah This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)

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Barriers to Open Courseware in Higher Education Time Risk Failure Risk Intellectual Property Risk Institutional Recognition Approaches to Open Courseware in Higher Education Top-Down (CMS, formal peer-review, institutional oversight) Bottom-Up (blogs, wikis, podcasts and other RSS technologies)

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Does a Podcast Make a Sound if it Lives Behind a Firewall? Anyone Can do it so Someone Will do it Either be First or be Forgotten High Quality Open Courseware is Inevitable

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Content Assessment Interaction Discussion Board Components of E-Learning Chat E-mail Surveys Tests Quizzes Multimedia Images Text WebCT Lecture Recording Metrics Peer review

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Content Assessment Interaction Blogs WebCT Games E-Learning is multi-dimensional

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Risk Minimization in An E-Learning Migration Strategy chalkboard overheads laptop Tablet PC recording Voluntary Online quizzes Tests/exams Student feedback Student behavior procrastination OFFLINE laptop HYBRID FULLY ONLINE Paper quizzes/tests No quizzes screencast archive podcast archive CONTENT ASSESSMENT Email or survey

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Podcasting: the automatic distribution of audio files to computers or portable audio devices through a subscription system Screencasting: the delivery of audio and screen capture recordings via download or streaming media links Platform: blog Component: Content Channel: podcasting Platform: WebCT/ blog Component: Content Channel: screencasting

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Lecture Recording Process Start Camtasia Recording Teach on laptop or tablet PC as usual Stop Camtasia Recording Convert avi to Flash or Real Media Upload to Server (screencast) Modularize Podcast CORE OPTIONAL

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Platform: blog Component: content Channel: screencast, podcast, lecture notes Platform: blog Component: interaction Channel: comments

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Using Blogger and Feedburner to create podcasts

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Podcasting MP3s and PDFs through iTunes

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Replication of the Bottom-Up Model: Michelle Francl at Bryn Mawr

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CHEM 241 89 students CHEM 243 64 students Natural migration from F2F to screencast/podcast channels

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CHEM 241 89 students CHEM 243 64 students Midterm Feedburner stats

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CHEM 241 130 students this term CHEM 243 2 students this term Long term trends for Open Courseware RSS feeds

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Archived Lectures change the role of the teacher

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Platform: blog Component: interaction Channel: FAQ, comments

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Platform: blog Component: assessment Channel: post assignments

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Platform: blog Component: assessment Channel: peer-reviewed reference citation

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Platform: blog Component: interaction (student-student) Channel: advice in blog post

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Feedback-Intensive Teaching Strategy using WebCT Voluntary Quizzes Test Automatic Make-up In-class review based on histograms of test results Platform: WebCT Component: Assessment Channel: Quiz

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Correlation of procrastination with performance One day procrastinated = 5% drop in score Platform: WebCT Component: Assessment Channel: Quiz

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The Game Platform: The EduFrag Project Assessment Content Interaction Quizzes in a 3-D world The Study Room Student-Student Collaboration or Competition Instructor Guided Tours First Person Shooter Modding (Unreal Tournament)

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EduFrag Design Modularity Simplicity Quiz-Based – Not Simulation Portability of textures Flexible gameplay modes: non-competitive maze, race, deathmatch, capture the flag, king of the hill, etc. Even in competitive play gore level can be adjusted for each player

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Platform: game (Unreal Tournament) Component: content, assessment Channel: quiz questions on walls Platform: game (Unreal Tournament) Channel: chat, body gestures Component: interaction

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The EduFrag Wiki and Blog: Open Source Collaboration

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Platform: game (Wheel of Orgo), blog Component: interaction, content, assessment Channel: Tablet PC, F2F

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MakeGames: The Class that Didn’t Run

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Don’t Underestimate the Impact of Open Courseware and RSS

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Take-home message Think in terms of multiple channels and platforms to meet your teaching objectives http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com http://drexel-coas-talks-mp3-podcast.blogspot.com http://edufrag.blogspot.com Bottom-up open courseware strategies have an important role to play in global education

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Classes Podcast and Screencast in Spring 05 at Drexel