Enhance Introductory Students’ Learning Experience using Hybrid and Online Deliveries

1. Enhance Introductory Students’ Learning Experience using Hybrid and Online Deliveries June West, Program Director Computer Technology Department Spartanburg Community College Spartanburg, South Carolina

2. Who Benefits Most from Online/Hybrid Deliveries • Those unable to attend class at least half time • Persons serving in the Armed Forces • Those who are disabled • People who work rotating shifts • Those who live long distances from a physical campus • Lack of transportation – their own or public • Caretakers

3. Challenges for Hybrid Delivery • Course must be adaptable • Students must work independently • Instruction accomplished in shorter period of class time • Assignments clearly stated on syllabus or weekly schedule

4. Challenges for Online Delivery • Deliver course content that engages students • Address students questions in a timely manner • “Group” office hours or one-on-one additional instruction • Secure online testing

5. Tools to Aid with Transition • Respondus – a tool to create & manage quizzes and tests • Can be published directly to various learning systems • $1700/2500 students • StudyMate – a product by Respondus • Helps students "master the basics" of course material • Uses learning activities, self-assessments, and games • Comes with Respondus campus-wide license • Lock-Down Browser – another product by Respondus • Adds security during an assessment • Prevents students from printing, copying, going to another URL, or accessing other applications • Additional cost

6. Tools (continued) • TeamViewer • Connects to any PC or server • Provides collaborative team projects and/or presentations • Remote Desktop support • FREE • Panopto Lecture Capture System • Record any content • Publish online • Available to your audience almost immediately • Average cost is $16,000/year • Skype • Opportunity for students to share ideas • Use video calling • FREE

7. Use of Tools • Students’ learning reinforcement • Panopto Lecture Capture system • Record in-class lectures • Make available to students • Office Hours for additional instruction • For one-on-one instruction, use Skype • For group discussion, use TeamViewer • Review/Study Sessions • TeamViewer • Hold study and/or review sessions • StudyMate • Create review options • Flash Cards, Quizzes, Crossword Puzzles, and Challenge games

8. Use of Tools (cont’d) • Team Projects • Coordinate Team Projects • Store project documents on SkyDrive • (FREE – must create Windows Live ID account) • Presentations • Individual presentations • Instructor reviews recorded presentations • Group presentations (video connection for up to 25 participants) • Skype for individual presentations • Ten simultaneous audio connections • Only one-on-one video connection) • Mock interviews • Conduct mock interviews using Skype

9. For Online/Hybrid Courses with Computer Lab Components • The most important consideration: Necessary software installed • Hybrid class • Complete assignments at home or in a lab on campus • Could be completed on the non-lecture day • For the online class • Easy access to a computer wherever they are • May be required to purchase necessary software

10. Software at Reasonable Prices • Microsoft products - www.dreamspark.com • Adobe products - www.cheapsoftwarelinks.com • Virtual Box - www.virtualbox.org • Virtual PC/Windows XP Mode available with Windows 7 Pro and Windows 7 Ultimate • Virtual PC 2007 for other Windows versions

11. Questions? June West, Program Director Computer Technology Department Spartanburg Community College Spartanburg, SC westj@sccsc.edu