ITC Annual Conf. - Going Online Overnight, Strickfaden, Salahub, Mitchell

This session is a collaboration of two organizations and will walk through two effective responses to emergency faculty skilling-up needs due to the impact of COVID-19. Two separate teams formed to rapidly develop similar online, asynchronous workshops for faculty to learn the essentials of teaching online. Part 1 will compare the workshops these design teams developed, including team reflection on experiences and insights for why and how they designed and developed the programming as through Fall 2020. Part 2 is an exploration of the workshops’ impact, including workshop assessment methods, results, and highlights. Part 3 will be a participant discussion of collective experiences in similar educational development programs for faculty teaching online. Case Study 1 - The Essentials of Online Teaching (EOT) workshop from Colorado Community Colleges Online (CCCOnline) – a two- week workshop for instructors moving from face-to-face to online learning as an emergency response to COVID-19 shifts. The workshop recipe included: 20 sections, 20-30 seats per section, 6 2-week sessions, 6 months of delivery, 19 facilitators, 600 faculty participants, 13 different home colleges. The workshop learning focused on backwards design for course planning, shifting current course activities to intentionally online activities, and utilizing the learning management system (D2L) effectively and quickly. The faculty satisfaction rate was 95% for this rapidly developed, limited budget emergency response to COVID! Case Study 2 – Online Essentials Workshop from Front Range Community College – a two week workshop for FRCC faculty and instructors designed to be Part 1 of a required training for fully online teaching. Due to the Covid-19 crisis, FRCC also needed to use this Online Essentials workshop as preparation for the hundreds of teachers preparing to teach in other modalities including web- video and online hybrid classes. The workshop included 22 cohorts, 14 facilitators, and about 600 participants. The workshop focused on giving participants the experience of being a student in an online course intentionally designed around FRCC’s online course quality guidelines and to help participants explore how to design and teach in an online modality. FRCC is now analyzing feedback from participants and other stakeholders.

The moderator for this session will be Faith Jelley.

Transcript

1. C o l o r a d o C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e s O n l i n e ( C C C O n l i n e ) : S o p h i a S t r i c k f a d e n , M A F r o n t R a n g e C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e : E r i c S a l a h u b & K e r r i M i t c h e l l Going Online Overnight with Faculty Workshops - Two Case Comparisons of Faculty Workshops for Essentials of Online Teaching
2. POLL
3. Introductions Sophia Strickfaden eLearning Technologist Colorado Community Colleges Online Aurora, CO Kerri Mitchell English Faculty, Instructional Coach Front Range Community College Fort Collins, CO Eric Salahub Philosophy Faculty, Instructional Coach Front Range Community College Fort Collins, CO
4. Our Network
5. 13 Colleges, 1 System “The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is made of up 13 unique colleges with 38 locations across the state, educating over 125,000 students every year.” www.CCCS.edu/Home
6. Graph of Colorado COVID cases as of February 5, 2021. In comparison to other states, Colorado was fairly flat until November. Our cases are falling and we’re seeing improvements.. Source: New York Times, "Colorado Covid Map and Case Count". Retrieved October 5, 2020. D ue t o C O V I D - 1 9 , t h e n e e d t o m o v e o ur e n t i r e s y s t e m o f co ur s e s t o o n l i n e i n s t r uct i o n h a d t o h a p p e n q ui ck l y wh i l e m a i n t a i n i n g q ua l i t y s t ud e n t - l e a r n i n g e x p e r i e n ce s . Fa cul t y a r e ce n t r a l t o t h e co l l e ct i v e s ucce s s i n t h i s d a un t i n g t a s k . A f a cul t y wo r k s h o p f o r e s s e n t i a l s o f o n l i n e t e a ch i n g wa s n e ce s s a r y . Covid Response
7. What are the Online Essentials? Chat
8. Chat Summary of Online Essentials
9. Section 1 – Eric Salahub, Front Range Community College
11. Front Range Community College, Kerri and Eric Colorado Community Colleges Online, Sophia and Lee Tran (no longer at CCCOnline)
12. Front Range Community College Larimer Campus in Fort Collins Boulder County Campus in Longmont Westminster Campus
13. FRCC's Spring 2020 COVID Response Challenge: Design a two-week 10-hour “online essentials” workshop to prepare faculty and instructors to teach online classes for Summer and Fall 2020
14. Asynchronous Online Focused 10-hour Online Essentials 10-hour Practicum During the First Semester of Online Teaching FRCC Online Essentials
15. FRCC Online Essentials Design Challenge Prepare Teachers for Real-time- Remote No Practicum for RtR Teachers RtR Best Practices Training offered during Fall 2020 in-service College-wide Instructional Coaching and PD for all Modalities
16. 1. Reflect on prior knowledge as foundation to think about online design and teaching. 2. Understand FRCC’s Online Course Quality Guidelines and apply them when designing and teaching online courses. 3. Experience the Quality Guidelines as a student; practice using D2L Tools and experience what it is like to have an engaged facilitator. 4. Draft and revise a pedagogical plan for online teaching and learning. 5. Become familiar with additional resources for online and multi-modal course design and teaching. 6. Be ready to transition to the Practicum being aware of what you will need in order to meet your teaching and learning goals. FRCC Online Essentials Outcomes
17. FRCC Online Essentials Overview
19. Independent Student Work Independent Teacher Work In Class Work Reflecting on Prior Knowledge
20. Previewing: Online Design In Class Work ?? Independent Student Work ?? Independent Teacher Work ?? No Sessions?
21. Week 1 Open Discussion
22. Week 1 “Quizzes”
23. High Standards Effective Design Rich and Inclusive Learning Environment Engaged Teaching and Active Learning Active Student Engagement FRCC Online Course Quality Guidelines
25. Week 1: Guided Thinking Activity
26. What is Online Teaching Teacher Students
27. Week 1 Post/Reply Discussion
30. Week 2 Open Discussion
31. Week 2: Guided Thinking Activity
32. If your main job as an online teacher isn’t to deliver content, what will teaching mean if your online class? Eric, I think I designed myself out of my own class…
33. Week 2 Post/Reply Discussion
37. 600+ FRCC Teachers Trained With Online Essentials 50% FTE Growth from 2019 10+ New Online Classes (Science, Nursing, etc.) FRCC Online Essentials
38. All Modalities “C” or better pass rates Front Range Community College
39. Redesign Essentials for Online and Remote? Offer two versions of Essentials? Should Remote teachers have a practicum experience? FRCC Online Essentials 2021?
40. Section 2 – Sophia Strickfaden, Colorado Community Colleges Online (CCCOnline)
41. Front Range Community College, Kerri and Eric Colorado Community Colleges Online, Sophia and Lee Tran (no longer at CCCOnline)
42. Aurora, CO Area Colorado Community Colleges Online, Sophia and Lee Tran (no longer at CCCOnline)
43. The Charge, Context, Goal 10-hour workshop for CCCS instructors to intentionally and rapidly transition to online learning with sustainable course design. 5 DAYS UNTIL DELIVERY
44. The Essentials Online Student Characteristics Effective Remote Teaching Design Online Delivery Format Blueprint/Plan Online Course Practice Using Tools
45. FACULTY PARTICIPANTS 652 CCCS Faculty (13 Colleges) Minimal or little experience teaching online. Diverse in experience, expertise, exposure, and technology comfort. Many experienced with teaching in classroom and/or in real-time. The Audience Reach
46. AVERAGE HOURS LEARNING 16.2 Desire2Learn (D2L) LMS CCCOnline Master Course Template (MCT) Articulate Rise for Content Center for Academic Excellence for Recruitment and Enrollment Delivery
49. Pre- and Post-Surveys
50. Post-Survey Adjustments Alt Video Options Rubrics Privacy: FERPA Decrease load Balance Language
51. Totals # of Facilitat ors # of Sections Enrollment Completed Did Not Complete Dropped Did Partial Work Did Not Participate May 4 4 104 79 14 11 9 5 June 8 8 190 126 42 22 16 26 July 2 2 59 41 10 8 3 7 August 5 6 194 104 65 25 25 40 October 4 4 82 49 20 13 8 12 January 1 2 23 11 6 6 4 2 Overall 24 26 652 410 157 85 65 92 Enrollment/Completion Statistics
52. Totals Drop Rate Completer Success Rate Pass/Fail Rate May 10.58% 84.95% 75.96% June 11.58% 75.00% 66.32% July 13.56% 80.39% 66.49% August 12.89% 61.54% 53.615% October 12.56% 72.55% 63.43% January 26.09% 72.31% 62.88% Overall 14.54% 74.46% 64.78% Enrollment/Completion Statistics
53. Feedback Answer Scales May Survey June Survey July Survey August Survey October Survey January Survey Overall Average Instructor modeled best practices Agree/ Strongly Agree 98.61% 94.08% 92.68% 92.98% 96.00% 100.00% 95.73% Effective course design Strategies Agree/ Strongly Agree 95.83% 94.82% 95.12% 90.35% 96.00% 100.00% 95.35% Instructor feedback was helpful Agree/ Strongly Agree 97.23% 93.33% 97.56% 92.98% 98.00% 100.00% 96.52% Participant ability to teach online Confident/ Very Confident 94.45% 84.44% 80.49% 92.98% 90.00% 100.00% 90.39% Recommend workshop to others Somewhat Likely/ Very Likely 98.61% 97.04% 95.12% 92.23% 94.00% 100.00% 96.17% Post Survey Results
54. Next Steps Seat Time Adjustments Custom to Groups Self-Paced Modules Outreach Enhancements Student-Data Based Decisions Other Ideas?
55. Given the two solutions… Let’s Chat!
56. What ideas do you have? What have you done? What are your suggestions? Tell us what ideas you would take from this presentation. Chat
57. Authors’ Contacts Sophia Strickfaden Sophia.Strickfaden@cccs.edu Twitter: @Sophia_eLearn www.Sophia-eLearn.com Kerri Mitchell Kerri.Mitchell@frontrange.edu Eric Salahub Eric.Salahub@frontrange.edu