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Collaboration Tools for College Sophomores. VLE: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Collaboration Tools for College Sophomores. VLE: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous. Matthew Kunkle www.webex.com www.edmodo.com www.skype.com www.blackboard.com. Benefits to Synchronous. Flipping the Classroom More discussion More live exercises More Instructor engagement

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Collaboration Tools for College Sophomores. VLE: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

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  1. Collaboration Tools for College Sophomores. VLE: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Matthew Kunkle www.webex.com www.edmodo.com www.skype.com www.blackboard.com

  2. Benefits to Synchronous • Flipping the Classroom • More discussion • More live exercises • More Instructor engagement • More peer engagement • More attentive student audience • More active learning • More deep learning

  3. Benefits to Synchronous • Virtual office hours • More high-touch, high-quality interactions • You can get more accomplished • Never have to show video during class meeting times

  4. Weaknesses to Synchronous • More time consuming for the Instructor • Everyone has to be online at a certain time • Bad for globalized communication • Students • Traveling Instructors • Guest speakers

  5. Asynchronous • Access the material… …on the fly!!! • Materials are always archived and available whenever, wherever. • You can save on time and travel • Better for the environment • More time to work due to less time commuting • Saves money (usually)

  6. Weaknesses to Asynchronous • Text based communication takes time. • It takes an average person twice as long to read a discussion in text, such as a message board with a dozen or so commenters (or a movie script as opposed to a one-person dialogue), than it does to have and comprehend a live multiple-person discussion • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Voicethread

  7. Hybrids classes • Skype • Blackboard • WebEx vs. edmodo • WebEx classroom vs. teamwork • Group work made easy • Five users can join simultaneous for student work • 50 users can join simultaneous for classroom work

  8. Some Basic Application Review • Edmodo demonstration • WebEx demonstration

  9. Some Basic Conclusions • Edmodo facilitates better group text-based, collaborative discussions • Students rate it highly • It is free • WebEx facilitate virtual, collaborative discussions • Can be difficult for certain disabilities • Students rate it highly • It can be expensive

  10. Recommendations • WebEx, Skype, Google, and Video Chat are great Web 2.O educational tools

  11. Further Recommendations • Unless utilizing a Blackboard-only feature that cannot be done in edmodo: • don’t use Blackboard for K-12 or undergrads. • Any discussion board is better than Blackboard’s discussion room. • The flow is illogical and difficult • Hard to follow • Most students see it as below all other Web 2.0 discussion boards.

  12. Questions? If you have any questions please feel free to contact me directly! Thank you for your time. Matthew Kunkle Senior Associate Director, Assurance of Learning Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning Fox School of Business and Management maybe@temple.edu Temple University 1801 Liacouras Walk A407a Alter Hall (006-60) Philadelphia, PA  19122-6083 Phone 215-204-7044 http://www.fox.temple.edu/citl

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