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Nov 30, 2018
2 min

Free Online Teaching Tools: EdPuzzle

EDPuzzle is an easy-to-use video platform that helps instructors boost student learning through video lessons. It collects learner data and can be used in a variety of learning environments. EDPuzzle allows for instructors or learners to create customized videos specific to a particular topic. For example, if there is an important video you would like for your learners to watch, an instructor can create an EDPuzzle video that tracks who watched the video and set up quizzes

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Holly Fiock

Nov 16, 2018
3 min

How to Use Varied Feedback

Later today, I have a meeting with one of our instructors. This individual did not develop the course he taught nor does he have extensive experience teaching online. Our meeting is to discuss how the course was developed, designed, and how it runs. This meeting had me thinking about how feedback can come from a lot of different sources - instructors, students, other designers, etc. While I look for different feedback sources when looking at the design of the course - it ma

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Do 'Typical' Lessons Work in Online Learning?

Holly Fiock

Nov 9, 2018
3 min

Do 'Typical' Lessons Work in Online Learning?

Recently, I read a post about there being a gap in standard lesson plans. To Learn, Students Need to DO Something by Jennifer Gonzalez. The blog focused on the absence of doing 'activities' in the classroom. In the blog, they laid out the typical lesson plan format as such: Anticipatory set: This is where we get learners interested in the lesson and set objectives for the day. Direct instruction: Facts, concepts, and skills are delivered via lecture, video, reading—some way

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Holly Fiock

Oct 26, 2018
2 min

Learning New Tools: Padlet (take 2)

This week, I'm focusing on the use of collaborate tools to increase student engagement in different learning environments. The tool I examined this week was Padlet. Padlet is essentially an online collaborative tool that can help an instructor or trainer elicit responses in real time. As technology grows, so does the need for learners to develop and acquire 21st century skills. Padlet allows learners to respond to questions in real time or at a later date – letting the ins

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Holly Fiock

Sep 21, 2018
2 min

Student devices in online environments

As part of the ID2ID Program, we are required to attend professional development events in order to keep up with current events. Today, we were presented with a webinar titled Student Device Preferences for Online Course Access and Multimedia Learning, presented by researchers at Oregon State. This presentation opened my eyes to the idea and actual usage of mobile devices in online education. Based on conversations with individuals in the field - I thought the direction of

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Using AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action in Different Contexts

Holly Fiock

Sep 13, 2018
3 min

Using AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action in Different Contexts

What is AIDA? "AIDA stands for attention, interest, desire, and action, and can be used to describe the sequence of events that goes into making someone want to buy your product or service" (Bean, 2014). While author Cammy Bean uses AIDA, a classic copywriting model, to e-learning - I think the same concept can be applied in a wide variety of online settings. But first, let's run though what goes into each step. Attention - "What is your hook? How do you pull the learner in

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Holly Fiock

Sep 7, 2018
5 min

Learning New Tools: Poll Everwhere

This week, I'm focusing on the use of polls to increase student engagement in different learning environments. The tool I examined this week was Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is essentially an online voting tool that can help an instructor or trainer elicit responses in real time. As technology grows, so does the need for learners to develop and acquire 21st century skills. Poll Everywhere allows learners to respond to questions in real time – letting the instructor or

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Getting out of the online assignment rut...

Holly Fiock

Jul 23, 2018
4 min

Getting out of the online assignment rut...

Lately, I've been working on a few course developments and a full program evaluation. What I have started to notice was the trend or reuse of assignments across different courses. I've realized that many instructors find a teaching assignment or teaching style that works for them and then they try to make that style or assignment work for all online courses. While if tweaked properly this may be effective, it could also affect the students in a number of ways. 1) Not all

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Can design alone result in an excellent online course?

Holly Fiock

Jul 19, 2018
2 min

Can design alone result in an excellent online course?

I've attended a few professional development and general meetings on the topic of course design and how to effectively design for online courses. While these meetings were interesting in the fact that they showed and explained course design elements (think of the Quality Matters rubric), it is fair to say that without appropriate student-to-student or instructor-to-student interaction that an excellent course design could result in poor evaluation scores. There must be a mix

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Holly Fiock

Jul 11, 2018
3 min

Realm of Rubrics.

When preparing to be an instructional designer, I considered all of the glorious elearning content, online courses, and training opportunities that I would be able to develop and implement. It was so exciting to think about all of these different areas and how I would be in a career where I am always able to learn and improve my skills as technology advances and improves. In these deep thoughts, I did not think about all of the little 'things' that I would need to focus on.

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Holly Fiock

Jun 25, 2018
3 min

Consistency vs. Creativity

Over the past few months, there has been a lot of discussion between some of my faculty regarding the concept of being consistent in our online courses. The debate stems from a discussion rubric that is used in all of our courses. Over time each course and instructor has revamped their discussion rubric to include and align with specific course requirements. These revamps in the rubric has now caused some confusion among students as they progress through our program and di

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Evaluations. The good, the bad and the ugly.

Holly Fiock

Apr 3, 2018
4 min

Evaluations. The good, the bad and the ugly.

Earlier this week, I received our midterm evaluation survey results. While discussing with a co-worker (we'll call her Lisa from now on), it was brought up how an instructor she works with was having a difficult time handling the news that the instructor's class had bad reviews. My initial response was, "What did the students report as not going well?" Lisa responded and said that students reported that the discussions were not helping them to learn. Often times in online

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Holly Fiock

Feb 14, 2018
4 min

Free Online Teaching Tool: Padlet

As part of my job, I try to explore and test out new technologies for use in online classrooms. One of my previous blog post had focused on building your own community. I would like to take that topic a bit further and discuss the role of developing a community in your own online course. Building a community in your course can be done in a number of ways - personalized announcements, "getting to know each other or course bios," blogs, wikis, discussion boards. However, fo

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Using Web Graphic Memes in Online Course Development

Holly Fiock

Jan 31, 2018
2 min

Using Web Graphic Memes in Online Course Development

As an instructor you look for variety in your teaching methods. The same is especially true when teaching an online course. However, learning new tools can sometimes be time-consuming and as we all know - online courses can move pretty quick! How do we keep our students engaged and connected to the content we are teaching in such a quick moving time frame? While there are many methods, research articles, and support groups out there to help online instructors with best pra

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