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Bite Sized DevelopmentIncrease Participation, Creativity & Knowledge Exchange
University of AbertayWild Trails MediaColin Gray | @elearningcolin |
How Does it Work?
Why Should it Work?
Flexible, short, just-in-time learning(Simkins & Maier, 2010)
Community of Practice(Lave & Wenger, 1991)
Attention spans - 90/20/8 rule(Pike, 1994)
Where Has it Worked?
Edinburgh NapierIn the CloudPodwhating?!Web2 and You
Open EducationHow to Podcast
Business Education
Chiasma
Helen Webster10 Days of Twitter & LD5D
23 ThingsPLCMC & Cambridge
What’s Your Experience?
Have you participated inan online course? ?
ODDWhat didyou like?
EVENWhat didn’t
you like?
Putting it in Context
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Briefly introduce your own area
Pick one topic to teach using Bite-Sized
Devise 2 or 3 tasks for that topic3
Research on Engagement
The Course Drain
Final Day
Any Action:39%
Average:62%
“In the Cloud” Course – Edinburgh Napier, 2012
“In the Cloud” | 18 x
Final Day
“Web2 and You” | 12 x
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Web2 and You Course Activity
Average actions:42%
Weekly Actions:90%
Research on Engagement
Similar measurements across the board
My Courses
Colleagues
MOOCs
12%
29%39%
Increasing Engagement
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(My thoughts and experience, at least….)
Prime Your Participants
Jump the Rails
Be the Snowball
Lay Down the Law
Increasing Engagement(My thoughts and experience, at least….)
Prime Your Participants 1
T-5 days Day 1-5 to 0 days
Lay Down the Law
2Lay Down the Law
Prod Them!
Guilt Them!
Guilt Them, again!
Be the Snowball
3Be the Snowball
Plant theSeeds
HeavyLifting
Watch itGrow
Jump the Rails
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Get Creative& Responsive
ParticipantContent
Prompt CreativeOutputs
Putting it in Context
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What would work with your learners?
Your experience with this, or others?
Ideas for new engagement tactics?
Bite Sized DevelopmentIncrease Participation, Creativity & Knowledge Exchange
University of Abertay Dundee & Wild Trails Media
Colin Gray
T: @elearningcolinE: colin@wildtrails.co.uk