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Faculty Learning Outcomes (or desirable ruminations):• Identify adaptable strategies and tools to improve efficiency and efficacy• Identify an easily improvable component of your course • Formulate a strategy to implement this improvement• Integrate technology as part of your pedagogical operating system

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Oceans (320) of Opportunity:Rebooting a GE Explorations Course

Stephen SchellenbergAssociate Professor

SDSU Geological Sciences

“When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism;if you steal from many, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner

So many thanks for research help from CTL, pICT, and ITS folksand for support from Qualcomm and SDSU

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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• What is the course’s role? (discipline general education)

• What are the Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)?

• How does every quanta of content articulate into one or more SLOs?

• What is the most effective content, structure, and modality for course?

• How could you implement change and assess impact?

• Cost-benefit on short to long timescales?

• Suitability for hybridization or fully distance-education modality?

I. Consider course redesign . . .

“There is no such thing as good course design,

only good course redesign.”– Justice Louis Brandeis (modified)

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” – Voltaire

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Reasons for taking this class . . .

•Pragmatic: Checking off box to BA/BS

•Structural: Online, compressed

•Contextual: Interest in ocean, etc.

•Social: Online presence

•Economical: Save money, travel time*

•Environmental: Reduce carbon footprint

•Flexible: Anywhere, anytime learning

(*but not less work/study time!)

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I. CourseRedesign

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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Overview of Wimba ClassroomFrom 1stWimba

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Overview of Wimba Classroom

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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We will start momentarily . . .Every

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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We will start in one minute . . .Every

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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We are starting . . .

. . . and doing a sound check.

Can you hear me? If yes, click the ””box. If no, click the “x” box.

If you can’t hear me . . .

• Did you run the Wimba Wizard? Surely so, but if not do so now and then re-enter!

• Assuming that audio checked out fine in Wimba Wizard . . .

- Check your speaker volume

- Try exiting and re-entering the room

- Listen by phone (201.549.7592; toll-call) using PIN # 14422849

- Exit, call Wimba for help (866.350.4978), and watch archive later

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Welcome to OCEAN320 – We are starting . . .

. . . and doing a sound check.

Can you hear me? If yes, click the ””box. If no, click the “x” box.

If you can’t hear me . . .

• Did you run the Wimba Wizard? Surely so, but if not do so now and then re-enter!

• Assuming that audio checked out fine in Wimba Wizard . . .

- Check your speaker volume

- Try exiting and re-entering the room

- Listen by phone (201.549.7592; toll-call) using PIN # 14422849

- Exit, call Wimba for help (866.350.4978), and watch archive later

OK, non-audio people, we are going to move on . . . good luck!

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Action Items

Before . . . Do . . .

End of the day Download and printout all Module 1 materials (i.e., Learning Guide, four readings)

Tuesday 9 PM Four activities in cryptically named “Do These By Tuesday 9 PM” folder

Wednesday Wimba Read/Watch/Listen: Nature of Science

Thursday WimbaRead: Tragedy of the CommonsRead/Watch/Listen: Shifting Baselines

Sunday 11 AMComplete Blackboard Quiz on Module 1(Opens Thursday 11 AM)

• Resolve any Wimba Issues via the Wizard and Wimba Help• Get comfortable with the BB environment and course layout• Attend Tuesday Wimba “Help Session” for Wimba, Blackboard, etc.

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Goals for Today

•Perfect cold fusion

•Initiate global CO2 drawdown

•Sort kid’s socks drawer

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Action Items . . . Wrap-Up . . . Post-Wimba Office HoursEvery

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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Roadmap of the Tour

I. Consider course redesign in general

II. Overview OCEAN320 structure and SLOs

III. Tour OCEAN320 in light of some “Thinks . . .”

I. Think modular structure

II. Think module learning guides (LGs)

III. Think dynamic learning sessions via Wimba

IV. Think intersession activities (with deliverables/questions in LG)

V. Think html templates with server links (no BB uploads/downloads!)

VI. Think mortar (you) and bricks (external content)

VII. Think efficient file management (one folder for all updated files)

VIII.Think assessment (essays with life-or-death 1st sentence)

• Future of OCEAN320 and open discussion

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IV. Future of OCEAN320

• Develop context and content for module on Deepwater Horizon

disaster

• Pilot small group projects with self-selected population for extra credit

• Implement projects across large sections during short sessions?

Uh . . .

• Offer during both summer sessions or intersession? Offer every Fall

and Spring? Who will teach? What is saturation point for market?

• Stop scaling up . . . and start scaling out to global student population

• Integrate research into course, and course into NSF Broader Impacts