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Best Practices, Strategies and Assessment Pedagogy that works!. !MPACT 2006 8th Annual WebCT User Conference July 2006 Dr. Linda Futch & Bill Phillips University of Central Florida. University of Central Florida. Established, June 1963 One of Florida’s 11 public universities
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Best Practices, Strategies and Assessment Pedagogy that works! !MPACT 2006 8th Annual WebCT User ConferenceJuly 2006 Dr. Linda Futch & Bill Phillips University of Central Florida
University of Central Florida • Established, June 1963 • One of Florida’s 11 public universities • First classes taught October 1968 with 1,948 students • Fall 2005 Enrollment: 45,090 • Metropolitan university with 11 regional campuses • Located East of Orlando (MM is SW)
Qualitative Outcomes • 2005 EDUCAUSE Teaching & Learning Award • 2003 Sloan Consortium in Online Teaching & Learning Faculty Development Award • 2001 Campus Tours 4-Star Tour Award • 2000 Excellence in Distance Learning Program Award United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) • 1998 APQC-SHEEO Faculty Development Award for Teaching with Technology • EDUCAUSE NLII “DLBest Practice” 97-99
Course Development & Web Services (CDWS) • Unit of Information Technologies & Resources (IT&R) Academic Affairs • Office of Instructional Resources (OIR) • Computer Services • Library • Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) • Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE) • CDWS
Scope ofUCF’s DL Program • Over 500 faculty trained through IDL6543 • 3,665 WebCT courses • 6 undergraduate programs online • 10 graduate programs online • 10 graduate certificates online
Support Services • Learning Online • Teaching Online • Essentials • ADL5000 • IDL6543
Best Practices – The Standards • The Principles of Good Practice as defined by the Southern Regional Electronic Campus. (Google SREC) • Synthesis of Sloan-C Effective Practices • Quality Matters (Maryland Online) project • Chickering and Gamson (1987) Seven Principles to online education. Chickering and Ehrman (1996) included technology.
Best Practices • Two Categories: • Organization • Module 0, Consistent Organization • Course Protocols • Advance Organizer • Concept Maps • Interaction • Student to Content • Student to Student • Student to Faculty
Organization • Course Organization • Module 0 - SPA3471a • Consistent Organization - LAE5337b • Course Protocols SOW3203b, AMH2020o • Advanced Organizers NUR4827, EDG4323b • Concept Maps SSE5776a, ENC1101j
Student to Content • Web as Content Provider • Case Study GEY5007a • Scenarios RTV3000c • Real Audio/Real Video AML4261a SPA3471a • Assessment • Self Test HFT4866a • Pretest LIN4680 • Formative Evaluation EDF6432a • Summative Evaluation NUR4812a
Student to Student • Collaborative/Cooperative Learning Groups ENC3311f • Problem Solving MAE6338a • Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) • Discussions GEY5007a, MAN3025a • Course Mail • Chat
Student to Faculty • Learning Contracts EDF6259 • Learner Choice FLE6695a
Top Ten Things You Need to Know About IDL6543…. • Dr. Susan Wegmann – • College of Education Faculty • Recent IDL6543 graduate • lae4361b - Literacy Strategies for Middle and High School • ……and now to the top ten things…..
Questions? • Dr. Linda Futch – lsfutch@mail.ucf.edu • Bill Phillips – bphillip@mail.ucf.edu • Course Development Web Services - http://cdws.ucf.edu/ • UCF – http://www.ucf.edu • IDL6543 – http://reach.ucf.edu/~idl6543a